[Side note: The cure]

It is therefore of great importance that this defect, so fatal
yet so common, should be provided against in time. But how?

Since it comes from exhaustion, consequent on the mismanagement
of the voice, the remedy is obvious.

Let the student daily practise reading aloud in the open air,
preferably sermons or speeches by the best authors.

Let him nervously guard against allowing his voice to show the
slightest trace of fatigue in the final words of each sentence.
This can be accomplished by inhaling fully, going slowly, and not
only giving full value to the punctuation stops, but resting at
the rhetorical and logical pauses.

[Side note: Advantages of the remedy]

By this excellent practice he strengthens his lungs and vocal
organs, cultivates his ear, and acquires a control over his voice
so perfect that he can husband his reserve fund of breath and
strength to impart at will freshness to the final syllable.

This practice should be continued till it becomes a rooted habit,
till it has grown to be his normal method of speaking.

When he goes into the pulpit I would give him an advice, the
value of which time and experience can alone enable him to
appreciate.