Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1891 — That Flowery Theologue. [ARTICLE]

That Flowery Theologue.

One must resort to description when a name is to be spoken that has slipped entirely out of mind. The Northern Christian Advocate says: A certain young theologue went down from Princeton to Philadelphia to preach. He was one of those extremely flowery writers who dazzle rhetorically the tender souls of the younger members of the congregation, and the elders were besieged to have him down again. They at length consented, but, alas! they had forgotten his name. So they wrote to one of the seminary professors, saying: “Please send us that floweret, streamlet, rivulet, starlight man to preach for us next Sabbath. We have forgotten his name, but we have no doubt you will be able to recognize him.” He was recognized. He was sent. He became pastor of the church.

There are two bearing apple trees in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, that were planted in 1792. One of them is ten feet in circumference.