The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-02-19

ing The story N fall with assurances
taat the dear wriser does not believe a
word Of It and has no expression her
self yehemenlly but ia vain, % 4 na-
melo1s sBWing circle! Woz1 ! be
willing to deny It in the Ledger, &c.
Denying one Of these stories is lie
fighting Canada tbisllsa lfyou cut
them up, ten more VIII sprout from
each rOOs and If you let them alone
million viii spring from the seed. The
culy way to extermina1s the Osnada
thistle is to plant ii for a crop and pro-
pose to make money out {. II Then
worms will gnEW It bugs viii bite Il
bestlss Eill bore il, aphides win suck
it binds viii peck it heats win scorch
it rains win drown il mildeN and
blight viii ride it All nature helps
weeds and runs down crops. We are
afraid 70 deny il. Il would start of
walking ike Weston. A new batch of
letters would come moaning and IN
quiring at our door. Fresh vigor
would be given to its witbered limbs,
and ike the wandering Jew, It would
60 tramping up and down creation till
the last day. No, for safety's sake, we
do not propose TO deny it any more
i would be the ruin Of innocent souls, |
as this narrative which I now shall give
viii prove.
And the narration Of the incident \
brings me back 10 the question whether /
one can remember what never happen
edf It viii be seen that he can.
Sitting as friends table one even
ing, was telling an incident that befell
me-in this wise:
"A young man from Buffalo called 70
see me to-day. He said that he had
heard young lady, in a large comp
any, relating the story of my beginning 1
sermon with the phrase: 1T is did
hot He at once contradicted it She
affirmed itpositively He replied: 4
have lately read a published denial Of
the story from Mr.. B. himself She
answered Why, t0as present myself
at his church and heard Il wik my Ouon
ears OF course he could not say what
he thought, but replied: 4 am going
to New York, and | viii myself call and
ask Mr.. B."
The case seemed so flsgrant that I
said to him:
when you 60 back, l wish that you
would take occasion, before witnesses, )
to say TO this lady, from me, 4hat she
lies, and that she knows that she lies,
and thatsshe knows that l know that
shs les
This was very improper language,
but | was angry, and besides had been j
reading the Tribune. 6
When had got this far, sweet J
young girl, who sat opposite me, s
brought under my eye, almost from the '
cradle, and as incapable of knowingly T.
telling falsehOod as a rosebud would
be of committing burglary, this inno-
cent and charming child of fifteen look J
ed over at me, and said
But you did say so, didn't you, Mr..
Beeeher! I heard youp
For moment there was silence
Then came a crash of laughter from the
whole company. Confused and blush
ing scarlet, she said:
Why always thought that had
heard you say itP
For the frst time / then believed
that a person might distintly remember
what never took place. 1 take back the p
message to the Buffalo lady and hum a
bly, apologize for supposing that Que =
could not recall s thing which never
happened.
No, Mr.. Bonner, never swear n
Profane swearing is not right even in :,
the pulpit. I never in my life said 1t K
is d-d hot not even of an August 4
day, many Of which l have seen Of c.
tempature that might suggest the ex-
preston quoted. If anybody has said "
/, lately, [ think it must be your red s.
hot neighbor over the way, Mr.. Pome-
roy. If be denies it l can only say =
hat unless he amends his course he
may yet be left to say ii under eircum- 4
stances in which there will be no ex- eed5
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