Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1881 — A Sharp Rebuke. [ARTICLE]

A Sharp Rebuke.

A certain infidel, who was a blacksmith, was in the habit, when a Christian man came to his shop, of asking some one of the workmen if they had ever heard about Rrother So-and-so, and what they had done ? They would say no, what was it? Then he would begin and tell what some Christian brother or deacon or minister had done, and then laugh and say : “ That ia one of their fine Christians we hear so much about.” An old gentleman, a deacon, one day went into the shop, and the infidel soon began about what some Christians had done, and seemed to have a good time over it. The old deacon stood a few moments and listened, and then quickly asked the infidel if he had read the story 1 in the Bible about the rich man and Lazarus ? “Yes, many a time, and what of it?” “Well, you remember about the dogs—how they came and licked the sores of Lazarus ? “ Yes, and what Of that ? ” “ Well/’ said the deacon, “do you know you jnat remind me of those dogs, content merely to lick the Christian’s sores.” The blaoksmith grew suddenly pensive, and hasn’t had much to say {front tailing Christians ifteo* '