Emphasis Preaching Journal

Lord Dufferin, governor general of Canada during the 1870s, once addressed an audience at McGill University in Montreal, speaking only in Greek. Sir Hector Langevin, a Canadian politician, accompanied his friend, Sir John Alexander MacDonald, to the meeting. The morning after the speech, Dufferin was amazed to read in the local press that Dufferin had spoken "the purest ancient Greek without mispronouncing a word." Said Langevin to MacDonald, "How would the reporter know that?" Said MacDonald, "I told him." Langevin protested, "But you don't know any Greek!" Said MacDonald, "That's true.