Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1887 — The Ism He Had. [ARTICLE]

The Ism He Had.

“What keeps Mr. from kirk, James?” said a worthy minister; “1 hope it is not Methodism “No!” responded the verger. “It’s something worse. ” “What, then. Is it Calvinism?” “Worse, your reverence, worse.” “Surely James, it is not Deism?” “Much worse, an’ it please your reverence, than that.” “Can it be Atheism which deprives us of the best church-warden that ever shook a box ?”

“Truly,” responded James, “ ’tis a much more serious matter; it is rheumatism.”—St. Louis Magazine.