Show past speaking preacher two hundred and forty words a minute four 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 rev dr phillipa brooks try to equal it reading from a printed page in a conversational tone and then imagine the immensely increased difficulty of the tack in a large church before a great congregation and without the guidance even of a written note the business men for whom the service was especially de reigned bad been assured that the discourse would be short and so it was in time for it was finished in twenty five minutes but the report made by two stenographic reporters covered words and gave the extraordinary aver ages with which this paragraph opens boston journal |