This kind of emphasis, plus the felt necessity to adapt to the cultural level of the people addressed, meant that the traditional «plain style» which educated preachers of all ages had consciously striven for was in America always in
eminent danger of being leveled into plain vulgarity — as witness the succession of revivalists from Buchard and Finney to Billy Sunday.
The sound is getting louder everyday, it is now left for the present government to do the needful in other to avert the
eminent danger because presently this country is sitting on the keg
of gunpowder which may explode at anytime.