Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1886 — A Great Man in Georgia. [ARTICLE]

A Great Man in Georgia.

In a certain section of Georgia, Senator Joe Brown is held to be something higher than earth, something greater than man; and through this section an Atlanta newspaper man of a religious turn of mind (there is only one in Atlanta, and he isn’t there now) had occasion to travel. One Sunday he attended a country Sunday-school, and was called on to speak, and to interest the scholars Ije asked them questions between his remarks. “Who made the great big world?” he asked, under the subject, “Creation.” “God,” answered the whole school. “And who made the pretty stars and the great yellow moon to shine by night, and the beautiful silver sun to shine by day ?” “God,” said all the children again. “Correct,” he said, pleasantly. “And now, children, who made God?” This was a poser, and the school was silent for a full minute, when a small hand belonging to the Postmaster’s small boy went up. “Ah, my boy,” smiled the catechise!’, “you can answer, can you? Well, now*, tell me who made God?” “Joe Brown did,” piped the boy, and all the scholars ,in the school looked ashamed of themselves for being so ignorant, and even the teachers seemed provoked that the Postmaster’s boy had taken the honors. Washington Critic.