Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1860 — A Clerical Anecdote. [ARTICLE]

A Clerical Anecdote.

The Rev. Dr. I’ , of Brookline, be-i longed to the old school divines, and while! attending to his usual Sabbath ministrations managed to discover who of his congregation were absent his first duty on Monday morning being to call on the absantees and to find out why they were not at church. Among thos ; whose places were often vacant, was one man who cared but little for the sanctity of the holy day, or4he reproof of the minister. iOn taking his usual Monday morning rounds,' Dr. P. was sure to visit Mr. C. as we shall call hirn. Said the good man: “Why were you not at church yesterday?'’j “Had other business to attend to,” was the blunt reply. “Mr. C.,” said the clergyman, solemnly, “there is no preaching in hell.” “Well, it won’t be for want of ministers,” was the quick rejoinder. This was a hard cut, and the good old doctor shook his head and went his was, ruminating, doubtless, upon the doctrine oi total depravity. i A millionaire, after hearing a moralist discourse eloquently for a length of time on the precious influence of wealth, calmly relied: “You speak like an oracle, sir; but 1 have been poor, and am now rich, and ot the two conditions I preter4.be latter.” of the chivalric sons of Columbia, S. C., have ordered from a local manufacturer, an elegant Palmetto cane to bo presented to Mr. Edmundson as a testimonial Of their appreciation of his manliness in attacking a sick Congressman for truths spokep in’ debate. log has been found, apparently cedar, tvyo feet in diameter twelve and a half feet from the surface of the ground, while men were digging a well in the north-east corner of lowa county, on high prairie, two or three miles from timber, and four miles from the lowa river.