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Show Tblnk llr Vonr Hcrmon rian. Tho novelist can give tho preacher somo good points, and especially lu tho matter of tho sermon plan. After Zola had collected somo 1,700 pages of notes and nrranged them In order, ho writes about "Lourdos": "My book Is finished. fin-ished. I havo only to wrlto It." George Eliot would make soveral draughts of her plot beforo sho wrote a lino. Of Mrs. Henry Wood, hor biographer saysj "Tho great amount of thought And do. liberation bestowed upon her books was always at tho commencement. Sho would first compose her plot n rnattor of extreme care and deliberation, where nothing was passed over or hurried. hur-ried. This would tako her about throe weoka of very closo application, and until the wholo was accomplished not ono word of tho novel was written." As a rule, tho moro tlmo a preacher spends over the plan of bis sermon, tbo less time ho will need to spend on its composition. Homlletlc Rovlow, |