Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1881 — The Stolen Stolen Sermon. [ARTICLE]

The Stolen Stolen Sermon.

An eSdhran ge tells. this serro ofi-stau« iag story qf a yoon* mkp who stood before a presbytery in S&tiand; asking ordination. Principal Robinson wtt moderator .'JThe youpgtoari wakrtgldW examipqd ,knd asked to preach. The. satlsflcfor|?The c£n didate retired 'and the moderator said: “I feel compelled to . say that the sermon whicn young man. hast preached if h& his own. It is taken from an old volume of sermons, Jong gut 6t print. he found It Ido pot know. I supposed the onlycopy Qf the volume to be found' was In my jibrary, add the Csnfiiate has had no access to that.” The ynimg_ man was called. In and asked If the sermon was his awn. “No,”JiefrtmkJy said; ' “I. wgjj pressed for time and could not m«*o a tormon in'season. The sermoti I preached was one #hft*i X heard Principal Robinson ‘pVeaCfe, some time ago, i took noU» ofttyahn liked It so .’well tljat I Wrote it but from meipory. and haVe preached ft j I The moderatorwae caught ia his own trap, and their was noibinjTnfarvtp b mid. :