Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1891 — Doubtful Mercies. [ARTICLE]

Doubtful Mercies.

The editor of a college paper says that a famous college president, a clergyman, was addressing the students in the chapel at the beginning of the college year. “It is,” he said in conclusion, “a matter of congratulation to all the friends of the college that this year opens with the largest freshman class in its history.” And then, without any pause, he turned to the lesson for the day, the third Psalm, and began to read in a voice of thunder: “Lord, how are they increased that trouble me!”