Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1885 — He Didn’t Want to Preach. [ARTICLE]

He Didn’t Want to Preach.

At an examination of theology, conducted by four grinding professors, the unlucky candidate, whose parents had determined to force him into holy- orders, was thus apostrophized: “Unfortunate young man, you are, then, incapable of citing to us a single text of the sacred gospels?” “Yes, indeed,” said the patient young man. “I remember one—that of the Apocalypse: ‘And I looked, and beheld before me four great beasts.’”— Faris paper.