Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1891 — A Praying Base-Bailer. [ARTICLE]

A Praying Base-Bailer.

She—“l understand that you are one of the praying base-ball players, and that you are studying for the ministry. In fact, I am told you have just been ordained.” He— “lt is true.” “Are you going to take charge of a parish at once ?” “Well, I don’t know. I have received a call to a mission church at ssooa year; also an offer from the Bostons to sign for SIO,OOO a year, and I have been wondering whether I hadn’t better devote a few years more to baseball praying before accepting a regular pulpit.” —Good News. Sir John Lubbock has just discovered that the death rate in London is 16| per 1,000 as against in other English cities