Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1907 — Pretty Weak. [ARTICLE]

Pretty Weak.

A divinity student had taken the place temporarily of Boston’s famous “sailor preacher,” Father Taylor. After the sermon as they descended the pulpit stairs the student asked, “Father Taylor, what did you think of my sermon this morning?” Approaching him in a fatherlj- way and placing his hand on the student’s shoulder, he replied, “My dear brother, if your text bad had the smallpox, your sermon cor.ld not have caught It.”—Christian Register.