Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1917 — A Pew Complainer Answered. [ARTICLE]

A Pew Complainer Answered.

Deacon Jones decided to speak his mind to ttye minister who was temporarily filling the pulpit. “I didn’t like your prayer very much this morning,” said he.-> “No?” answered the minister, “And what was the matter with it?” “Well, in the first place, it was too long; and, aside from this, it contained two or three expressions which I thought were scarcely warranted.” “’“I am sorry, deacon,” the gped man responded, “but it might be well to bear in mind that the prayer wasn’t -addressed to you.”—Liverpool Post