Word: compendium
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that no man felt that he could call him an intimate friend, and yet, in his sermons, he gave his whole being to his hearers. No other man's sermons were ever wrought with such thought and care. They all went through three stages, the note-book, the compendium stage, and then the finished arrangement, so that his intellectual preparation and logic made a track, as it were, for the rush of his rhetoric. Complete as was his plan and outline, he spoke with such spontaneity that he seemed to be swept on by some supernatural power...