Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1913 — Served ’Em Right. [ARTICLE]

Served ’Em Right.

Norman Hapgood, the editor-reform-er of New York, was talking about a political mutineer. ™" “SUch fellows,” said Mr. Hapgood, “ought to be served as Dr. Steenthly served his congregation. “Dr. Steenthly, on a sultry September morning, preached with sincerity and vigor a sermon that he had prepared with great pains. “But, for all the force of his argument #nd delivery, the good doctor was much vexed to see that a large part of his congregation slept. Several of his leading parishioners even snored. “Dr. Steenthly, at the end of his discourse, pounded on the lectern, and, when all were at last awake, he said, very frankly and mildly: “ 'My friends, this sermon cost me a great deal of trouble, and I don’t think you have paid it the attention it deserves I shall therefore repeat it. My text I take from —’ “And for a second time Dr. Steenthly preached his sermon from beginning to end.”