Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1894 — He Nailed the Central Thought. [ARTICLE]

He Nailed the Central Thought.

Lewiston Evening Journal. Into a Maine village where he had preached when he was a licentiate I with more hopes than fame, there came a few Sundays ago an elderly ' and prosperous doctor of divinity. After the morning service an old, white haired man approached the doctor, and, holding out his hand, ; said: ‘•Glad to see ye. T want to thank ye for what ye said this morning, and to tfe'.l ye that ye preached a sermon here years ago I’ve never forgotten.” Pleased by such remembrance,the doctor graspod the proffered hand ' heartily, and said: “By the way, what was that sermon? I don’t seem to remember.” “Well,” answered the old man, “I don’t remember the text, nor I don’t remember what you called the subject, but the central thought was that theology ain’t religion; no not by a d-d sight!”