Show V I V A Time Limit LimitS V V I V V ST. ST S T. T LOUIS vestrymen have placed the ban on onS S long sermons sermon fixing t hv two twenty nt two nt two minutes as s the ideal length for the average discourse The action is in line tine with the tendency of the age which is to a conservation of f words w. It does not how however v 1 r lend itself to universal adoption because there thee is a difference between sermons The messages which are ae sounded from the pulpits have varying degrees of interest Where one man might hold his congregation for an hour and nd interest them every mi minute ute another might haye have difficulty in sustaining interest for the regulation regulation regu regu- lation laUon two twenty minutes The element of in interest interest in- in interest terest does not always depend on the speaker More often interest is gaug gauged d according to the message delivered Like everything else it must appeal to human emotions and reasoning The church of today must measure ts congregation congregation congregation congre congre- gation as does the merchant catering to the general public It must appeal to its interests and the one which does it most successfully is the one which has the least trouble in sustaining in interest terest I The tendency of this age is to save time I We are cutting down space and speeding up b transportation with but one tangible r result result- result the crowding of a 13 little more activity into the time allotted to the average lifetime The worlds world's messages recognize the the tendency and endeavor to state their mission as quickly and tersely as pos pos- pos pos- sibl sible S We vVe all remember the story of the man who was tasked asked what the minister talked about bout His reply was About an hour and a half This illustrates the difference difference- in talking against time and delivering a message Not I every message can be stated in two twenty-two minutes minutes min mm- utes but the time limitation will at least sp spare ue th the speaker the necessity of talking when vh n he really has to V VIn nothing say 1 In the death of William H. H Korns Salt Lake loses an active and useful citizen He was in intense in- in intensely tense tensely y interested in civic welfare and nd carried the full courage of f his convictions Mr Korns was wasa a aV a. man of high ideals ideal and will wilt be sorely missed by all who knew him |