Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1920 — Aertoal Expedient. [ARTICLE]

Aertoal Expedient.

The English preacher, Stephen Jenkbm, was not a highly educated man, but he had a native wit which often helped him out of difficulties. One Sunday while reading as the Scripture feMon the third chanter of Daniel, he came to a batch at words that gave Mm trouble. “At what -time ye hear th* sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut. psaltery, dulcimer,” etc. Now this Itet of instruments 1* repeated several times in the chapter, and the second time he stumbled through it with even greater difficulty than the first Before he reached It again, however, discovered a way of escape. So the third time he relieved both himself and bls listeners by reading with th* utmost gravity, “And the band Maaad a* TTgfeKrfet I ■*" X •