Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1887 — The Watcher in Church. [ARTICLE]

The Watcher in Church.

His neck is fitted on a globe socket that turns clear around. He sees everything that goes on. The man that comes in late does not escape him and it is in vain for the tenor to think he got that little note to the alto conveyed between the leaves of the hym-book unobserved. The watcher saw it He sees the hole in the quarter that Elder Skinner dropped on the plate. He sees that Deacon Slowboy has but one cuff. If the door swings he looks around; if the window moves noiselessly he looks up. He sees the stranger in his neighbor’s pew, and he sees Brother Badman, sitting away back under the gallery, furtively take a chew of the inhibited fine out All things that nobody wants him to see the watcher sees. He so much that he has no time to listen.— R. J. Burdette.