Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — Needed Praying For. [ARTICLE]

Needed Praying For.

“The chief of police of Athens, Ga,’* said Supt. Eldridge, of Boston, “is a delightful man to meet, but he is a Methodist —one of the old, sincere style. At the last convention in Boston ho proposed that the association have a chaplain. That roused the Western men, especially one from Omaha, who didn’t want prayers: But the Georgia man got up, and looking solemnly over the gathering of police officials, said:. ‘Gentlemen, I think if anybody in this country needs the guidance of AlmightyGod, it is the heads of the police departments in our large cities.’ He won and we made him chaplain."—Boston ’traveler. j A girl who has a good vigorous steady seldom becomes a whist fiend. .