Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1884 — A Practical Application. [ARTICLE]

A Practical Application.

A prominent clergyman who, happening one day to pass the open door of a room where his daughter and some young friends were assembled, thought, from what he heard, that they were making too free with the character of their neighbors. When the visitors left he gave the children a lecture on the sinfulness of scandal. They answered, “But, father, what shall we talk about?” “If you can’t do anything else,” said he, “get a barrel and roll it about; that will at least be innocent diversion.” A short time after this an association of ministers met at his house. {Some doctrinal questions were set up for discussion, and it was plain enough that Christian temper was about to be lost in zeal for Christian doctrine. The eldest daughter procured an empty firkin, and, entering the room, gave it to her father and 'said, “There, father, roll it about.”— Bow Bel’s. The heart beats seventy-five times a minute; sends nearly ten pounds of blood through the veins and arteries each beat; making four beats while we breathe once.