Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1910 — Helping the Minister. [ARTICLE]

Helping the Minister.

A Scotch preacher had in his congregation an old woman who was deaf. In order to hear the sermon each Sunday, this old lady would seat herself at the foot of the pulpit stairs. Oaa day the sermon was about Jonah, and the preacher became very rhetorical. “And when the sailors threw Jonah overboard,” he said, “a big fish swallowed him up. Was it a shark that got ’im? Nay, my brethren, it was ne’er a shark. Was it a swordfish that eat him? Nay—” “It was a whale," whispered the old lady excitedly. “Hush, Biddle,” said the preacher indignantly. “Would ye tak th’ word of God out o’ yer ane meenister’s mouth?”—Success Magazine.