Show fast speaking preacher two hundred and forty words a minate conr words every second is a rate of speed which seems almost beyond the power of articulation yet that was the measure of the torrent of eloquent exposition and appeal poured forth in st pauls church monday by the bev dr phillips 1 brooks try to equal it reading from a printed page in a conversational tone and then imagine the immensely increased difficulty of the task in abarge church before a great congregation and without the guidance even of a written note the business men for the service was especially designed hadt been assured thai the discourse would be shorthand so it was in time for it was finished in twenty five minutes but the report made by two stenographic re covered words and gave the extraordinary averages with which this paragraph opens boston journal |