The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-02-18
Stealing q Sermon.

"'Thc worst steal think ever knew
was in u town in Canada called Hamii-
ton. The gang had been changing up"
on Eank president in u big place and
''gOt left, }" and IL avoid suspicion went
GfOOt across country, passing through
this town. In it was q Presbyterian
church which had a pastor VIII" WAS \
sickly man. 1t WAS on Sunday, and
it hapl ened that the pastor had obtain
Il: the services Of mother young min
lister Tor that day. He preached from
notes in the morning and attended Sun
(lay-schoOl in the afternoon, ut which
time he placed his evening sermon in
the Bible to have it handy tO read from.
Out Of pure cusssetlness one OF the gang
entered the church. and among other
things he looked into Was the Bible in
the pulpit. There he saw the young
llOniinie's sermon, and more for tlcviltry
than anything else stuck it in his l'ock-
ct and went on his journey. In the
evening the church was crowded, and
the young preacher assembled the pulpit
stairs ss big ~, life. He read the chap
ter If the Scriptures in which his even
ing text Wa; to be found, but when he
looked for the sermon il wys gone. He
turn"d all the .U!ors Of the rainbow and
for five minutes fruitle@sly searched Iii.
coat pockets. He was Iunbf"liil;I&,i,
but finally pricked NJ and said: My
Christian friends, I'm certain ! let my
evening sermon in the Bible i,cl%- 1t is
gone. Some thief h,l. stolen it. May
it do him good, rs l believe i: would
have done you good. Let us pray.
Thcn they held Il pr.yer-n'ectiMG.
"A mean steal was one in Troy. n
IA L.
married the next day. 1t was known
the man was very proud vi his nephew
who, by the way, was fine young
man and was goin: to marry u bca,ti,
full young girl. and being wei! fixed had
purchased a costly and handsome lot o:
jcwelry and plated ware for the we'd
ding presents. All the presents had
bcen suitably engraved with iEiti;,ls,
and the uncle WAS cooked aud Prinl-
ed to make Il big sp!urge on
the wcdtling-tiay. But when he woke
up the next morning every present had
flown AMI the old man went ne:,r!y crazy
over it. The marriage Of the young col'-
pic took place early in the morning tO
allow them to take the first train, and
until the entire party had separately
|,een told Of the old uncle's luck he was
i,atlly handled with gossiping tongues
that denounced his stingincss. a very
comics,l dialogue was heard one night
while taking bearings Of Il dwelling in
Iuxun<lNrt. The gang were outside OF
the house, the Inmates not yet having
retired. The boys were close to the viii
dow aud. of course, everything said in-
side could l,s heard. We'll. the mother
was the owner OF Il Sa:,l-skin sacrlue, and
she had said t. her friends that it was Il
birthday present from Ter husband.
While the boys were listening the
mother was engaged in putting Il six
y.:,r-Oll to he'd and teaching him his
prayers and to always he Il good boy.
Anon. other things she said: ''tie"r:.c.
God loves, good, truthful little boys, and
you must remember to- always Ec look
in. up to him. "Yes, ni:,,lu.," said
the yOung>tcr. ''but see, mama. what
you'll lose" why III, that Is right
aud nil good boys are always leaking up
to God. You don't lose anything Ivy
that" eyes l would, mamma. for Ii;
I'd been lo,lsin' up t God 'tother day
some other George Smith would have
found that lrnkct-l,tUk am money an
then you'd had 40 pity scal-'kiL to
wear" Hush, George, hu,i,,' cried
the mother, while the husband and
father w;,s heard to burst out with =
heavy laugh. lN an hour after that the
gang was in that mouse, and having
blown chloroform through the kcyh"lc
into the >l.e''ing-rOon Of father. mother
and child, relieved the hons" III every
valuable in it, in"iu,!ing tn" ''hirt;:iay
present" imayl,t with TIE money t;eorsc
picked up one day in the street.
Its abnIt this time ~ day when
do" said Mr.. Mink, 49, he t"'ls his feet
down FROM the iron r:ii!;m" round tine
stove and walked in the opposite dirt1'-
item tO the tavern door.
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