Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1898 — Congregation Was Drowsy. [ARTICLE]

Congregation Was Drowsy.

The minister of a certain church was gteatly exercised by the drowsy habits of his people. Taking them to task on this score one Sunday afternoon, he remarked: “I see a great many of you overcome with sleep. Ido not wonder at it, for the weather is oppressive, your work Is bard, and mauy of you have come a long way, therefore,’’ he added, “I am not surprised to see many of you asleep, but what surprises me is to see many sleeping who have had such a comfortable sleep here in the morning.”—Pearson’s Weekly.