Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1898 — An Important Omission. [ARTICLE]

An Important Omission.

At a prayer meeting recently held in one of the churches not a thousand miles from Utica there was manifested a desire on the part of some of the participants to praise themselves. One man, says the Utica Observer, even went back to the days of his boyhood; to show how good he had been even at that time. He said that one day, while walking along u country road, he suddenly discovered in one of his pockets a dollar belonging to his employer, which he had neglected to turn over to the latter. With crushing force the thought came to him that his employer would miss the dollar and believe him to be dishonest. Overcome by that thought he sat down by the roadside and wept. There the story ended. Those who heard the pathetic narrative were deeply moved, and one of the women present subsequently told her young son about it, probably with thv intention to produce a good effect upon the youthful mind. But the youthful min<j didn’t seem to be impressed. The thoughtful boy remained silent for a few luotnents, and then he burst out with: “Say. ma. did the man tell whether he ever gave the dollar back?”