Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1879 — Appreciated. [ARTICLE]

Appreciated.

A Scotch clergyman, whose habit it was to preach hell-fire to his congregation in large doses, had occasion to visit a poor, sick parishioner. After enlarging with considerable unction on his favorite topic, he said to her, “ Now, my dear woman, did you ever appreciate the tortures of the damned before?” “ Nae, nae, never till you came here," was the ra’hei equivocal answer.