ans, third chapter and second verse,' but write II Corinthians, iii, 2.'" In writing well-known texts we have found that the first word or two, and the two last are sufficient to record in shorthand. Reference to the Bible should be made afterwards, when the transcript is being prepared, and the passage given in full. The sermon reporter must have at his finger ends a good stock of phrases applicable to such work. Learn how to turn over the leaves of your note-book noiselessly. If you cannot get all the sermon, get as many complete sentences as possible. If your preacher speaks too rapidly for you at the start, try again, practice the words and phrases over which you have stumbled, and be persistent.
Owing to the fact that sermons are generally delivered without a break of any sort, a sermon is one of a reporter's most difficult tasks. "Sermon reporting verbatim," writes Mr. Baker in "Reporting Hints and Practice," "for its thoroughly successful performance, calls for a high degree of phonographic skill, and for at least fair Biblical and religious knowledge; and to the conscientious reporter the task of fully reporting a preacher who is also a distinguished scholar, is not a task to be lightly undertaken. The reporter has not received the training of a doctor of divinity; the preacher has a manuscript (which is not obtainable); the sermon as delivered is not clearly audible; members of the con-
