Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1898 — The Force of Example. [ARTICLE]

The Force of Example.

A certain eminent Judge who was recently re-elected, when he was asked about the facility with which he turned from one case to another, replied that he had learned that from what he saw at a baptism of colored people wlhen he was a boy. The weather was very cold, so that to Immerse the candidates they were obliged to cut away the ice. It befell that when one of the female converts was dipped back in the water, the cold made her squirm about, and iti a moment she had slipped from the preacher’s hands and was down the stream under the icq. The preacher, however, was not disconcerted. Looking up with perfect calmness at the crowd on the bank, he said: “Brethren, this sister hath departed—hand mo down another.”