Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1885 — “Grin and Bear It.” [ARTICLE]

“Grin and Bear It.”

The following is vouched for by a minister’s wife, and therefore must be so if it isn’t so: A clergyman visiting a toman in a severe illness, asked: “Do you derive any comfort from the instruction of the Bible ?” “Oh, yes, indeed,” was tbe reply. “What particular passage do you rely upon at present ?” asked the minister. “Grin and bear; it,” replied the sufferer. The clergyman departed to look up a concordance. — Oil City Derrick.