Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — Pointer for Preachers. [ARTICLE]

Pointer for Preachers.

A writer says “that the average limit of sustained attention in an audience is about twenty minutes, and that it is very difficult for a sjpeaker to interest his hearers thirty minutes. It was not so in the old days when we had great orators and it is not so now when an eloquent speaker has a speech to deliver. But, foi the average talker, twenty minutes is long enough.”