Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1913 — HE KNEW WHAT TO AVOID [ARTICLE]

HE KNEW WHAT TO AVOID

If Knowing Human Nature Would Do It Thia Man Would Have Made Good Preacher, -Dr John Hayhes Holmes, who preached a Bull Moose sermon to President Taft the Sunday before election day, isn’t like Washington White." said a member of Dr. Holmes* Church of the Messiah in New York. “Washington White was an aged hod /carrier. Laying down hie paper one' evening, he said to his wife over his spectacles: “ ’Martha, I believe I’d make a preacher. Listen, now, and I’ll give you a sermon.’ “The old man then stood up to the table and bellowed out a vigorous discourse on the wickedness of the tors of the Orient. "His wife said at the end • “‘A good enough sermon, Washingtent but you’ve told us all about the sins of the foreigners and never a word about the sins of the folks at home here.’ ’“Ha, ha, ha, I understand preachin’ too well for that,’ laughed the wily old man.”