Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — He Knew Better. [ARTICLE]

He Knew Better.

A weli-known New England clergyman once exchanged with a brother clergyman and was entertained at the house of a parishioner "who was even too hospitable. She insisted upon his eating a large piece of mincepie for dinner, and the minister yielded, against his better judgment. The consequence was that he became violently ill, and was unable to preach that afternoon. The doctor was summoned, and while he was ministering to his agonized patient, the latter looked up and said, feebly, but with an inimitable twiokle of the eye: “Doctor, I’m not afraid to die, but I’m ashamed to!”