Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1881 — A Baby Preacher. [ARTICLE]

A Baby Preacher.

The expression in the eighth Psalm Hn™ h f aiidsucklings hast thou ordained strength,” is a ß > tills nc ldent: A little five-year old boy overheard a workman who was repairing the sit-ring-room, drop the exclamation “by gosh, over some mishap. “That's the first swear word! ever heard in my father’s house,” was the grave rebuke of the little fellow. the rough man that he went to th* S* er w^ e •“!? confessed his fault. While engaged nn the job he Z£ni£ iD ,nt ° « The boy, now a tall lad, wields the same influence over his mates Thev ? nde l^. and that his part in the game is ended as soon as bad words are inTh “ knowled ge that his 'ether » tongue was never pointed bv profanity, together with hk precepts, ano a ghild’a natural riiwinri to be Yike his father" thta salutary bias to his eariv life.