Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1882 — A Peculiar View of the question. [ARTICLE]

A Peculiar View of the question.

It is refreshing to hear of a genuine conversion, if it be from darkness to light, especially when it is speedy and complete. A few years ago a friend of mine was taking a country walk with a friend, a clergyman, when the latter suddenly wheeled round his face toward home, with the remark: “Let us go back, I’m tired; was called up in the middle of the night to baptize a child that was dying.” “ Were you in time ?” asked my friend. “ Just,” was the reply; ‘‘ another half minute and I should have been too late.” “And if you had been, what then ?” “Why, then, I suppose the poor little thing would have been lost.” “Eternally?” “Well, yes, according to our belief.” “May I ask what sort of boots you wear?” said my friend. “Boots? Elastic-side, always.” “Now, suppose you wore laced, and they had taken two minutes to put on, the child would have been dead, and—lost eternally, ay?” “ That’s a peculiar view of the question; and I must think over my position. ” Two days after the clergyman met my friend and said: “I have thought that matter over and must alter my view. The boots did it"— London Spectator. Never break a business engagement of any kind, if it be possible to meet it Let nothing cause you to become careless of business etiquette, integrity, and promptitude. Since the time of ancient Greece no country has produced so many eminent literary men, who were also soldiers, as has Spain. Calderon, Lope de Vega, and Cervantes all fought for their country.