People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — The Way It Sounded. [ARTICLE]

The Way It Sounded.

At a certain mission Sunday school it was the custom for all the children to recite the golden text for the day in concert. This is not a good way, as the following incident will show, for sometimes the children fail to catch the sense: One Sunday the school was visited by some ministers of a conference holding its session in the city, and the superintendent put the pupils through their exercises. “Repeat the golden text in concert,” said the superintendent, and the school repeated in its collective capacity, as well as it could: “They went out and preached that men should repent.” “Mary,” said the superintendent, turning to a girl about eight years old, “you may repeat the text yourself." So Mary stood up straight and observed: “They went out and preached that men should wear pants.”—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.