Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1889 — Language the Lord Understood. [ARTICLE]

Language the Lord Understood.

The clergy cannot always insist on the use of ecclesiastical nomenclature, ago a clergyman was asked to visit a rough old fellow who was dying. “Do you realize that you have committed many 6ins?” asked the. clergy.mun. | “Dunno ’bout committin’ sins,” was the reply, “but am pooty blamed Sure that I have made a great many bud breaks in my life,” As a “bad break” was evidently his equivalent for a sin. the clergyman accepted the acknowledgment and p ssed on to the question: “Are you sincerely penitent?” “Dunno 'bout that, either, Mr. Minis ter,” was tho reply, “but I know that I have been an everlnstin 1 chump, and ain't no good to nobody, not even to the Lora', and I’m mighty sorry for it-” Thq language of this confession was rude and crude enough, but the clergyman accepted it as tho honest expression of a human sou), ana the poor old fellow was reconciled to tho church before he died.