Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1920 — HE KNEW HIS LIMITATIONS [ARTICLE]

HE KNEW HIS LIMITATIONS

Small Boy Didn’t Imagine He Would Amount to Much in the Better Land. “Spiritualistic mediums in their descriptions of the next world are absurd. The next world, indeed, is a very ticklish subject to handle.” The speaker was Sir Oliver Lodge. He continued: “A little boy was told by his Sunday school teacher that he would leave his body behind when he died. “ T don’t understand that,’ he skid in a frightened voice. “ ‘You see,’ explained the teacher, ‘you will take all that is good with you to the better land, and leave all that is naughty here on earth.’ “He thought a moment, then he said soberly: “ ‘I guess I’m going to be pretty thin up'there, teacher."