There seems to be a necessity at times for some communication between ministers on the platform, but in our visitation of eighteen camp meetings, and a great deal of other public work, we found that almost everywhere men have forgotten how to whisper. They think they are whispering, but they are mumbling, grumbling, rumbling, and it makes a continual sound that distracts a speaker if he is at all nervous or high tensioned, and it is especially troublesome to the King's Heralds quartet. Our quartet does sortie of its finest work in their more subdued and mellow singing, and this continual talking behind them sometimes throws them off-key, draws their attention, and diverts their interest for just a second.
Why couldn't our seminary and our teachers in the colleges train young men to whisper, actually whisper? There is all the difference in the world between a whisper and a grunt or speaking half aloud. A whisper is practically inaudible two feet away,, and can be made so quiet that the speaker will not hear it, nor the quartet. I have about come to the conclusion that where I hold meetings, I will ask that those who must communicate, to please whisper and not grunt. However, why whisper?
