The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-01
FUN FROM HARPER's ORA WEIR.


Even the Boston gentlemen of color par
ticipate with the white SdoGaS of the Hub in
their lofty disdain of the talent of New York.
A friend, happening to be caught in that city
over Sunday, thought he would take glimpse
ct some of the churches. Stepping inside the
porch of an A Westinghouse, the sexton,
colored, approached respectfully, and said-
"Will you have seat, Sab? Happy to show
You to one, Sab. Plenty seats this morM
ing, sah:"
mo, thank you can't stay but moment;
just stopped to glance at the church. What
is the name of the Clergyman"
'That, sab, is the Rev. DIR. -"
Slime preacher, isn't heP"
'Well, sab, peoples has different notions
bout preachers"
but he seems quite animated"
eyes. sab; considbl animated"
'And appears to have talent?"
''Well, sab, as 1 said afo', peoples has such
different notions bout preachers. Oars some
dat thinks he's mighty good on de words. 1
tipk myself he's fair man, saba fair man,
but not of de pTtnl0 .facte class. He's good
man, sab, a weil-meanin' man, but not q
talented man. He's a New York man, sab" I"
From a new edition of Dean Ramsay's
charming "Reminiscences of Scottish Life
and Character" we quote two short anecdotes:
An old clerical friend upon Speyside, con-
frmed old bachelor, on going up to the pulpit
one Sunday to preach, found, after giving ou
the psalm, that he had forgotten his sermon.
do not know what his objections were to his
leaving the pulpit and going to the manse for
his sermon, but he preferred sending his old
confidential housekeeper for it. He accord
ingly stood up in the pulpit, stopped the sing
ing, which had commenced, and thus accosted
his faithful domestic: Annie, say, Annie,
Soe'oe committed mistak the day. Ye maun
jist gang your waas hame, and yell get my
sermon out o my breek-pouch, an we'll sing
to the praise o the Lord till ye come back
again"
-"I see, James, that you tax bit nap in
kirk, said minister to one of his people;
'can ye no take a null with you? and when
you become heavy, an extra pinch would
keep you up"
''May be it wad," said James; 'but pit you
the sneeshin Until your sermon, minister, and
may be that'll serve the same purpose
1t is related of a colporteur, sent out in
the palmy days of colportsge by the Ameri-
can Tract Society, that he asked a rough
Arkansan what denomination a certain de-
pidated-looking Westinghouse belonged to.
''Wa'al, stranger" was the reply, ''she Soar
a Hard-Shell Baptist, but they don't run her
n0so."
-This-the denominational part-calls to
mind the reply of an old Pennsylvania who
''struck oil, sold portion of his land for a
great price, and went to the bank to get his
check cashed. On being asked what "denomi-
nation" he would have his money in, he
promptly replied
"a little in Presbyterian to suit the old
woman, but the hett of it in Free-Will
Baptist"
The following from the Barham Memoirs
will be az keenly relished by Catholic as by
Protestant readers
There was an old woman living at Naples,
very devout, who went to her confessor on a
ease of conscience. Her object was to learn
whether San Gennaro or the Virgin Mary was
the greater saint.
''Why, daughter" said the padre, ''that is
very nice question, and perhaps it might
puzzle the Holy Father himself to decide
upon it. However, for your comfort. it may
be perhaps satisfactory to know that both of
them were apostles!"
1t must have been with infinite ehuckle,
and many of what Cooper describes as old
Leather-stockings long, inward daughters,
that Henry Ward Beecher, during late
vacation, heard one of his own published
sermons delivered in an obscure village Al
the close of service he accosted the ''divine,
and said, '"That was q very good discourse;
how long did it take you to write it ?"
"Oh, / tossed it off one evening when
had leisure, was the reply
''Indeed !" said Mr.. Beecher. 'Tt took
me longer than that to think out the very
| framework of that very sermon"
"Are you Henry Ward Beecher ?"
81 am, was the reply.
''Well, then" said the unabashed preacher
''all that have to say is that amt ashamed
| 10 preach one of your sermons anywhere"
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