VI.FACT AS EFFECT:  Such immigrants recruit the worst element in
    our politics. (Proofs.)

A more highly ordered grouping of topics and subtopics is shown in the following: 

    OURS A CHRISTIAN NATION

    I. INTRODUCTION:  Why the subject is timely.  Influences
    operative against this contention today.

    II.  CHRISTIANITY PRESIDED OVER THE EARLY HISTORY OF
    AMERICA.

    1.  First practical discovery by a Christian explorer.  Columbus
    worshiped God on the new soil.

    2.  The Cavaliers.

    3.  The French Catholic settlers.

    4.  The Huguenots.

    5.  The Puritans.

    III.  THE BIRTH OF OUR NATION WAS UNDER CHRISTIAN AUSPICES.

    1.  Christian character of Washington.

    2.  Other Christian patriots.

    3.  The Church in our Revolutionary struggle.  Muhlenberg.

IV.  OUR LATER HISTORY HAS ONLY EMPHASIZED OUR NATIONAL ATTITUDE.  Examples of dealings with foreign nations show Christian magnanimity.  Returning the Chinese Indemnity; fostering the Red Cross; attitude toward Belgium.

    V. OUR GOVERNMENTAL FORMS AND MANY OF OUR LAWS ARE OF A
    CHRISTIAN TEMPER.

    1.  The use of the Bible in public ways, oaths, etc.

    2.  The Bible in our schools.

    3.  Christian chaplains minister to our law-making bodies, to our
    army, and to our navy.

    4.  The Christian Sabbath is officially and generally recognized.

    5.  The Christian family and the Christian system of morality are
    at the basis of our laws.

    VI.  THE LIFE OF THE PEOPLE TESTIFIES OF THE POWER OF
    CHRISTIANITY.  Charities, education, etc., have Christian
    tone.

    VII.  OTHER NATIONS REGARD US AS A CHRISTIAN PEOPLE.

    VIII.  CONCLUSION:  The attitude which may reasonably be
    expected of all good citizens toward questions touching the
    preservation of our standing as a Christian nation.

Writing and Revision

After the outline has been perfected comes the time to write the speech, if write it you must.  Then, whatever you do, write it at white heat, with not too much thought of anything but the strong, appealing expression of your ideas.

The final stage is the paring down, the re-vision—­the seeing again, as the word implies—­when all the parts of the speech must be impartially scrutinized for clearness, precision, force, effectiveness, suitability, proportion, logical climax; and in all this you must imagine yourself to be before your audience, for a speech is not an essay and what will convince and arouse in the one will not prevail in the other.

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