, 1880-04-25
SUNDAY SMALL TALK.

lie has reformed since his back was file
with birdshot while sneaking away from hi
neighbor's hen-roost, and he now sings witt
great fervor: IA charge to keep I-haye."
Sankey has written a new hymn entitle
s'Is Your Lamp Burning ?' We burn gus
SO the conundrum doesn't interest u.s. It il
addressed to wicked people,
Herald.
A clergyman at Bellows Falls, Vt, recent
1y announced, before his sermon, an inten.
ton of marriage, and then upset the gravity
OF his audience BY saying rs his text, "In Til
resurrection, therefore, when they shall rise
whose wife shall she bc?'
A drunken Scotch parishioner was ad-
| monishesl by his pars0n. II can 70 into thu
village" concluded the latter, land come
mcenester, but Pm sac p0pular!" was the
fuddled Scotchman's apologetic reply.
| An aged colored man was fastening home
from church, and WAS asked why lie was in
50 great 4 hurry: 20, nothin partiklar,
at de contrunce dat Sam Johnson's fell FIN
ALL"
At n religious meeting in Winsted. Conn,
| on recent Sunday, the wife OF a we'll
known citizen told how much religion had
with it than without it. When she had
spoken, another sister got up and expressed
| Il ferycnt hope that if religion had done for
the preceding speaker all that she had said
she would soon become good enough to pay
her the 80 cents she owed her.
FreeKirk Divine (of advanced opinions,
his chapeD: II am sorry to hear, Mrs. Nc
Grawley, that you are by 10 means so reg1-
lar i'll your attendance at church as you used
to be-" Fair Beggltc (indignant at the pas
tors latest iniquity): Kirk, indeed! Wud
VII your origins an nntilums an sicll like
abominatlOnS! Ma, na, until ye gie me th'
Auld 1lunder' again without the whistles,
III TAX MAJ speeritual comfort at .hanle."-
Punch.
A young lady who resides in that part Of
Pennsylvania, which is called "the Switzer-
land Of America has Sunday-school class
Of rather bright boys, averaging between :
and years. Recently she requested ech
pupil to come on the following Sunday with
some passage of Scripture bearing upon love.
The lads keeded the request, and III turn re-
topic, such as ''Loye your enemies - +" Lit
tie children, love one another" etc. The
teacher said to the boy whose turn came
last, "Well, Robbie, what is your verse;"
Of Solomon, second chapter, fftlii verse:
pies: for I am sick Of love-"
Now what could be done with that style of
boy?-Hnrper's DralDcr.
The serio-comic ideas that enter tho head
of Sa1nbo, wien exercised on religious mat
ters, causing anxiety perhaps to himself but
laughter to the listener, were exelnplitied In
the case of an suncle' i'll Chester, S. c., who
had been to calnp-meetfng, alld returned
greatly troubled about his sins. Perceiying
him one day with downcast look, his mas
ter asked him the cause. "Oh, Massa, FIN
foolish to take it so much to heart You
never see me troubled about my sins.'' IL
know de reason, Nassa: when you go out
duck shooting, and kill one duck and wound
another, don't you run after dc wounded
duck q" ssYes, Pete" And the master won
dered what was coming next. swell, Massa.
dat is de way wild you and me: de debbil has
got you sure: but, as he's not sure Of me, he
cl1ases dis chile all de tiMer'