Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1895 — An Appropriate Text. [ARTICLE]

An Appropriate Text.

A worthy clergyman of my acquaintance, having been presented co an important living, preached his first sermon from the words, “All that ever came before Me are thieves and robbers.” He was surpised and distressed when the church wardens afterward hinted to him that his choice of a text had been hard upon his predecessors.