Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1915 — CAP and BELLS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CAP and BELLS

PLENTY OF BREAD LEFT OVER

Mr, Smith, In the Amen Corner, Offered Suggestion to Help Out Certain Young Minister. One Sunday morning a certain young pastor in his first charge announced nervously: “I will take for my text the words, “And they fed five men with 5,000 loaves of bread and 2,000 fishes.* '* At this misquotation an old par-' ishioner from his seat in the amen corner said audibly: “That’s no miracle —I could do it myself.” The young preacher said nothing at the time, but the next Sunday he announced the same text again. This time he got it right: “And they fed 5,000 men on five loaves of bread and two fishes.’* He waited a moment and then, leaning over the pulpit and looking at the amen corner he said: “And could you do that too, Mr. Smith?” “Of course I could,” Mr. Smith replied. “And how would you do it?” said the preacher. “With what was left over from last Sunday,” said Mr. Smith. —Advance.