Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — Church Hospitality. [ARTICLE]

Church Hospitality.

The anecdote is told of General Grant that soon after his first nomination for the presidency he was ift the city of—, where he had not been expected and was known to but few, and there, on a rainy Sunday, entered a church aud took a seat in a vacant pew not far from the pulpit. The man who rented or owned the pew ooming in and seeing someone in the seat, sent the sexton to ask him to leave It, which the general quietly dia, simply saving: “I supposed it was probably the pew of a gentleman, or I should uot have entered it.—[Detroit Free Press.