Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1880 — Its Lesson. [ARTICLE]

Its Lesson.

A minister was questioning his Sun-day-school concerning the story of Eutychus—the young man who, listening to the preaching of the Apostle Paul, fell asleep, and, falling down, was taken up dead. “What,” he said, “do we learn from this very solemn event ? ” when the reply from a little girl came pat and prompt: “ Please, sir, ministers should learn not to preach too long sermons.” It is the impecunious toper who always lias a glass sigh. *