Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1911 — Mixed Metaphor. [ARTICLE]

Mixed Metaphor.

Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts thinks that as a “mixed metaphor”' from the pulpit the following can bard-, dy be surpassed: “One of the country’s clergy who was rebuking his flock for their apathy declared that but a spark of grace remained to show that they were at all alive. Then, in a parenthesis, he added, ‘Lord, water that spark.’”—Human Life. •