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to think that they hadn't believed and that they'd been so near to the brink of the terrible sin of despair. Despair is the one sin that, if entered into, can practically never be effaced, can never be totally wiped out. Despair is the greatest of the sins. It's the contrary of hope, which is one of the great Godly virtues. They'd been close to despair and he pulled them out. Then they could work.

I always felt that it was a king of religious revelation that he had within himself that day. I'm sure of it too by the way in which he spoke of it afterwards. He never introduced the subject, so far as I know, but if you introduced it, there was a kind of a hesitant way in which he spoke about it that made you realize you were on quite sacred ground so far as he was concerned. He would never claim credit for that. That was something that was not of his making. I'm sure he thought of it as direct divine guidance. He was always humble about it on that account. Other things that he said he'd gloat over and repeat them to you, saying, “Now I said.... Wasn't that good?” But he never said that about that speech. That was something very different. He had done that himself. No brain trust worked on that part of it.

I remember that Moley sitting beside me there said, “Gee, he's changed it a lot.”