People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — Church Hospitality. [ARTICLE]

Church Hospitality.

The anecdote is told of Gen. Grant that soon after his first nomination for the presidency he was in the city of ——, where he had not been expected and was known to but few, and there, on a rainy Sunday, entered a church and took a seat in a vacant pew not far from the pulpit. The man who rented or owned the pew, coming in and seeing some one in the seat, sent the sexton to ask him to leave it, which the general quietly did, simply saying: “I supposed it was probably the pew of a gentleman, or I should not have enured it!”—Detroit Free Press.