Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1881 — An Amusing Incident. [ARTICLE]

An Amusing Incident.

The conservative and courteous Bishop of some two-thirds of the commonwealth of the Keystone State gives a humorous incident that actually occurred during one of his visitations at one of the principal towns not a hundred miles from Harrisburg. Good Judge L. is not only an earnest churchman but very fond of showing his neighbors the way to church also. At any special service he was sure to have a couple or more of his legal friends in his pew with him, being very attentive himself both to the service and to his friends, showing them the places in the prayer book, and trying to keep them contented. At a recent visitation of Bishop H. the Judge was seen passing the books, and at every change in the service handing over other books, and then devoutly continuing his own duties. It was Sunday morning, and by the time the solemn litany was reached the visitors, having no especial interest in the affair beyond pleasing the J udge, and consenting to listen to a good square sermon which he had promised them, whenever in the sacred programme it should bfl presented, began to tire of the “ performance,” and, with a freedom more becoming the court room or street than the sanctuary, one of them, finding it impossible to keep up the connection of things, blurted out in a good stage whisper, “Judge, this beats the devil!” “That is the intention— * Good Lord, deliver us,’ ” replied the Judge, in pretty S' ositive tones, and in a sort of monotone iat came pear to a seeming addition to the ohurch'i liturgy not; jn the book,— JSfaqw’i Magwiint,