Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1894 — A Striking Coincidence. [ARTICLE]

A Striking Coincidence.

A pushing medical gentleman who had only been a short time in practice was fetched from his Sunday school devotions by the beadle. The doctor took up his hat, said a short prayer, and the service went on without him. Nobody pretended to have seen the incident, though everybody wondered who was .in trouble or whether the doctor had revived an old form of advertising. A little while afterward the beadle, with the softest step, went to the pew of the chief undertaker in the parish. A short whispered consultation, and away went the man of black. As he put on his overcoat to follow the doctor a broad smile passed over the whole congregation.—Liverpool Mercury.