Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1881 — Why He Came Back. [ARTICLE]

Why He Came Back.

Rev. Wm. Arthur, father of the President, was ready at repartee. Some years ago, at a meeting of the old Hudson River Baptist Association, Rev. Mr. Walden, who had been settled in the West, but had recently taken a church at Troy, said : “Ican tell the brethren that if they think any sort of minister will do for the West they are mistaken. It won’t do to send second or third-rate men there.” Mr. Arthur was on his feet in a moment, exclaiming : “ Mr. Moderator, 1 never knew before why brother Walden came back.”

No man knows what a ministering angel hi* wjfe is until he comes home one day, suffering with a dreadful Cold, and she happens to have a bottle of Pr. Bull’s Cough Syrup in the house.