This is clear. However, I think what you fail to grasp is that the oratorical skills sets and synthesis process which one employs as a minister is very much the same as the skills set employed by as one who is merely the loquacious statesman or politician -- absent necessarily having a Biblically informed moral rudder.
My brother in fact did his undergrad in Political Science at University of RI, obtained his JD from U TENN, and his Master of divinity from Geneva. Today he serves as an Orthodox Presbyterian minister of an OP church and features a legal counseling ministry also. He probably doesn't fit your more narrow interpretation of the word, "evangelist," either.
I'm saying (once again) that politics occupied the majority of his time.
Respectfully, I don't think you ever knew him personally well enough to say how Dr. Paisley occupied his time.
Suffice it to say that as the clock runs the man served in Parliament for 44 years and in the pulpit for 64 years -- 20 of which were served before he was even in Parliament.
If you find yourself inclined to quibble simplistic percentages in Paisley's case it is still roughly 60/40 minister vs. statesman.
Perhaps your perspective comes as from one who can only manage to do one thing well at a time. There are some who are able to comfortably and effectively reclaim time well enough to enjoy parallel careers. In Paisley's case he squandered little time and accomplished in one lifetime what amounts to the equivalent of 3 lifetimes for others whose goals perhaps tend to be somewhat less challenging.
This from someone who has spent considerable time on both sides of the Atlantic and whose familiarity goes beyond a collection of his sermons.
I, too, frequently travel to the UK and globally on business. A daughter happens to be studying in the UK at present in fact. I don't know what that has to do with anything other than to say we are apparently both well-travelled.
The difference between ourselves is that I have familiarity with Dr. Paisley's sermons that you apparently do not.
Perhaps the sticking point is that if you are a Catholic you'd feel compelled to bring it up at confession that you actually listened to a sermon by Dr. Paisley. I wouldn't know.
In any case I invited you to obtain such familiarity and gave you the link to do so.
You might want to start here: What Think Ye of Christ?
Invite a priest to listen with you.
All that remains now is for you to decide to become more familiar with sermons he gave over a 64-year ministry in order to have a better informed perspective.
FReegards!
