Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1884 — Wanted the Verse Omitted. [ARTICLE]

Wanted the Verse Omitted.

A clergyman married a lady with whom he received a substantial dowry of SIO,OOO, and a fair prospect for more. Soon afterward, while occupying the pulpit, he gave out a hymn, redd four stanzas, and was reading the fifth: Forever let my grateful heart Hie boundless grace adore—when he hesitated and exclaimed “Ahem! the choir will omit the fifth verse,” and sat down. The congregation attracted by his apparent confusion, read the remaining lines: Which gives ten thousand blessings now, And bids me hope for more. —Roxbury Advocate.