Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1886 — The Preacher’s Mistake. [ARTICLE]

The Preacher’s Mistake.

“What's become of Parson Jenks,who came out here to preach ?” asked a friend of a Dakota man. “Well, you see, he made a sort of a bad break, and we just firmly passed him along to some other community. We didn’t like his style somehow." “Why, I am surprised at that; he was considered a very able and earnest worker down in our country.” “Don’t know anything about that, but we found it necessary to help him out of the neighborhood on a rail.” “I am astonished! You did a great injustice to a worthy man,l am certain. What were the chargee against him?” “Why, in his sermon one Sunday he got goiu’ on about the Holy Land, and said they could raise bigger wheat over there than we could in Dakota, and then went on to quote something that I don’t believe was ever in the Bible, about the seed falling in some particular kind of sile and increasing a hundred fold. Just as soon as he said it I and Deacon Penny rose right up and went out and got a rail, and Deacon J ones and the members of the choir brought the reverend gentleman out and set him on. I tell you no man oan preach to us who goes to reflecting on Dakota’s wheat raising.” —Estelline Bell.