Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1909 — Didn’t Believe in Satan. [ARTICLE]

Didn’t Believe in Satan.

Dr. Judson Swift, the secretary of the American Tract Society, said on a recent warm afternoon, in New York: “Our army of colporteurs will soon be taking their vacations. They will return to work refreshed. They will labor with Increased zeaL I am a believer in the vacation. “And I have no patience with those Who say to the vacationist —as the old lady said to her pastor, as he set out for a fort-night in the mountains: “ ‘Satan ‘never takes a vacation, Mr. Stecnthly.” “ ’Wei 1 , my dear Mrs. Jpnes,’ the pastor a iswered, ‘I never did believe in Imitating Satan.’ ”