Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1881 — Applied Theology. [ARTICLE]

Applied Theology.

At a meeting of the Woburn Conference, Farmer Allen, of Wakefield, related the following anecdote : On Sunday morning, while a certain deacon was preparing for church, a wandering wayfarer, or, in modern par lance, a tramp, appeared at his door, pleaded his hunger, and begged for something to eat. The descon looked solemn and frowniugly, but reluctantly got a loaf of bread and began to cut it; but while doing so took occasion to admonish the beggar concerning the error of his ways. After reminding him that it was the holy Sabbath which he was desecrating, he asked him if he knew how to pray. “ No,” was the reply. “Then,” said the deacon, “I’ll learn you,” and he commenced to repeat the Lord’s prayer. But just as he uttered the first words, “ Our Father,” the beggar interrupted him with the question, “What, is He your Father and mine, too ?” “ Yes,” the deacon replied. “Why,” exclaimed the beggar, “we are brothers, then, ain’t we? Can’t you cut that slicea little thicker?” — Albany Argus.

“Eight out of every ten men who walk the streets of New York wears some mechanical appliance or other; and women too, for that matter, though they look so fine,” says a surgical instrument dealer to the Sun. “Persons are very reserved about their wearing an appliance for an infirmity. We are generally requested to deliver our parcels without our address on them, so that their contents may not be suspected even by their dearest friends and relatives, and those who wear anything for the improvement of their figures are even more secretive and mysterious. ” I’ve had enough of kisses, I’ve got enough of love ! Oh, give me back my ! old slouch hat! my comfortable glove ! take off this coat that fits so tight ! oh, let me muss my hair ! there’s a balm in Gilead yet I hope, “ God bless the happy pah - J”