Anecdote 2

John Elias once, in conversation with the late Rev. Matthew Wilks, when a Welsh minister was about engaging to deliver the annual missionary sermon, at Surrey Chapel, London, and when consulting about the manner of its delivery, whether it should be read frоm notes or spoken from memory, when Mr. Wilks intimated that he might adopt either, but, by all means, he recommended him to give "as much Welsh fire as was possible." To this remark Mr. Elias replied, "Fire cannot be carried in paper!" This he knew well from his own experience and practice.