Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1888 — A California Sermon. [ARTICLE]

A California Sermon.

Christian Advocate. A correspondent from Tuscarora, Nevada, sends ns an account of a sermo'n he heard in California from an illiterate preacher of an obscure denomination;. Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac was hie subject, and he dwelt particularly on the pathetic features of the narratives The changes were rung on the grief of Abraham at offering “his son, his only son.” “As they,were cornin’ to the place Isaac says, ‘My father,’ an’ Abraham says, ‘Here am I, my eon,’ an’ Isaac says, ‘Behold the wood an! the fire’ ” (at this point the old preacher choked witn the excess of his feelingßand wag forced to begin again)—“ ‘Behold the wood an’ the fire, but whar is the critter?’ ”