heres your essay for you im sorry if im late but hope this helps :)
Explanation:
Hello, today i will be talking about why practice is important. Firstly, you need to practice so you can start to get the hang of things, for example, perhaps you had a volleyball match coming up, you need to practice for it so you can get better at your receives or sets. Secondly, Practice is the act of rehearsing a behavior over and over, or engaging in an activity again and again, for the purpose of improving or mastering it, as in the phrase "practice makes perfect". Lastly, if you don't practice you could fail at whatever you are trying to do because your body or mind hasn't gotten used to the thing your trying to do yet. In conclusion, you need practice so that way you can get better at what your trying to do and so your body or mind can adjust to it and keep getting better at it.
I would say that most likely he was once a member of the military to use such a figure of speech, but also meaning that discretion would be the better part of valour to proceed with doing something positive for the community and win their hearts that way and perhaps influence their religion that way.
