Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1883 — The Preacher’s Child. [ARTICLE]

The Preacher’s Child.

It was in the family of a well-known D. D. in Boston. For some reason there has been a slight delay in the usual prompt payment of the quarter’s

salary; and the pastor and his wife, unmindful of the presence of a small philosopher of five years, were planning household economies until the money came in. Suddenly the little maiden remarked with great seriousness, not unmixed with disdain, “Now, papa, I’ll tell you what I should do. I should give my people plain prayermeetings till they paid me that money!” The Congregationalist.