Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1913 — A Moving Sermon. [ARTICLE]

A Moving Sermon.

"I once had a parishioner who was a miser,” said an English clergyman. “For this man’s benefit I preached one Sunday a s'rong sermon on the necessity of charity, of philanthropy—a sermon on the duty and the Joy of glv Ing. The miser, at whom I gazed “Next day I met him on the street “ ‘Well, John,’ I said, ‘what do you think of <Mterday*a sermon t “‘lt moved me deeply, sir,’ he answered. 'lt brought home to me so strongly the necessity of giving alms that honestly, sir, I’ve a great mind to turn beggar.’"