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A REMARKABLE SCHOOL.
How IndIana's PablIc Schools Furnished Soldiers


EDITOR NATIONAL tribune: In response
to my article In THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
received the Enclosed letter, and thinking it
would prove interesting to your readers send
IL TO YOUR b. ScoTT, Bedford, Ind.
WARRINGTON, Iowa. july 80, 1889.
r. b. scorr
DEAR CoaRApE: When read your letter I'm THE
NAnosAL TRIBUNE Of last issue il made my heart
bound with Joy. IL told me that an old friend,
schoolmaio and comradc was still alive. ] had
heard of your capture. and that you had persisted
in rebel prison, and from TINT day TO this had
supposed that you lay Ia au unknown and un-
marked grave, as some.of our schoolmatcs and
You viii doubtless reoollec. me MS feIlow.pupIi
at Carthage Public school in the Winter of 1860 i6
ms a. s. Folger, generally called Smith Foger I
and Irving Walker and boarded with Mr.. Nixons
family. YOU boarded at-Iesse iIils. so you sec
thai have some recollection Of those days OF our
boyish Rec.
Now as to the boys Of l,at school, viii say that
they are truly an immortal band. Immortal band
did 1 aay7 Yes an Immortal band. You will
doubtless recollect them 81. 0flbat band not one
was left 10 say did hot go.n All did 40 who could
carry n moskel or beat ~ drum, except Ell lay
man, who died aller school closed John
Jack. Harvey Galloway aud uervcy Hobbs Joined
the 18th Ind. Iron BriMNdel Hobbs was killed.
| Cy. aud Oliver oyermans viii and Irving Walker,
Frank Giibrith. Cy. Henley, Lee Iaynnn and Ike
IanpheF all Joined the lelh Ind; the last three
died Ia service. Jer Bowman was in the 18th,
and died nj Louisville, KY VIII Freeman wns In
II
and was Frank Lacy; Hadlcy Hill. Charley
| Nixon, Maize I'LL. Rob HIll. Rob Gilbrilh. Johh
HoH and CaIlia MendeubSH ioincd the gth lad Cav,
The latter died in CaiiabR Prison. Theodore
Young, known as " Brigham was in the 3d Cav.
| Albert bloomfield member Of the i32d Ind.
Caleb a. HALL, David Earncst. Henry Morris, Win
Manly aud myself belonged To the 18Th Iud; Il.
u, scott 10 the 67th Ind. and our teacher. J. w.
Shaw, WAS Major 81 the 44th ohio John Jack be-
came Captain Of the 9th lnd. Cav Is now In Lead
VILE Colo, and Is rich. David EArncat died Mt
Nashville: g. A. Ball aud I. Harvey are dead
Charley Nixon is Recorder Of Rush Co. Ind Had
ley Iiil j. Ia Carthage, aud Is physical wreck
| my health IN ruined.
| coinrade, when ! think what these boys went
through wonder thai ihETo aTe half as many liv-
| iug there now II. Many more that you knew
/ Ia Carthage went. many To return. Car
ibaEe, Indeed, has roll 81 honor Of which sho
well be propd. have set failed go think of one
who was in that school who did not ga. | defy
| the world To make showing the equal OF that one
school Tbink Of Il; ioi pupils on the roll. OF ali
sizes and SEX and 20 send - soldiers 10 defend the
/ flag
Ills now ~ years since We have seen each
others faces but sure would know you yet.
have not forgotten that tail aud iank " Abe Lin
coin " form Of youra
Yours. in r., q. and L.,
A. y. FoLuER.
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kind 10 the citizens and that he understands that
he was dismissed Ola account of his kindness to the
citizens. These facts Capt Luckett states are wei
known 10 the citizens of Warren County. capt
Euchett states that the other prisoner, FRANK
Iuckett. was captured at the house OF Mrs McCall
where he was doing duty as house guard, ana .he
prisoner Lucett states that our people were aware
of the fact You will please furnish me any add.
tional Information that you may possess IN regard
to these prisoners, with your opinion upon capt
Luck cts statements
/ have the honor TO remain. General, with great
Thomas H. TAYLOR.
Provost Marshal.
A letter taken from Provost MARSHAL
erals report, June 3, 1861
DEMoroL1s, June 3, 1854.
Capt. W. HoUGu, A. A.-G., Meridian.
CAPTAIN: l have the honor 10 send you, under
cover copy Of statement in regard 10 four Federal
deserters. forwarded tu by direction oil the Col
onel commanding in East Louisiana.
beg respectfully TO inform you that have THIS
remain, Captain, very respectfully, your ooedi-
ent servant j. O. DENNIS,
Provost MaTshal-Ccneral.
tCopyl
PosT osYKA. Miss, May q, 1864.
Statement In regard to Federal deseriers Tor.
warded 10 Provost Marshal General by direction Oh
the Colonel commanding
/. Lieut. w. johnson, nth N Y. Cav, deserted
about April TO- 1864 from New Orleans, aud report
ed to Serg't Cousin, Miless Legion, at Bayou La
?. William Mallett, gunboat ouachi,a, deserted
about April % 1864. aud reported To Col Powers,
commanding at Whitaker Springs, La.
8 Chas. Trip gunb0at Elk, deserted about May
9, 1864, at mouth of Red River, and reported TO
T. john Bruce, gunboat Elk, deserted about May
Q. 1864. at mouth of Red River, and reported 10
Maj. Ogden's command.
Captain aud Provost Marshal.
&C. NJ. ZIEGLER. Brevet Brigadier-General,
u. S. A., Wilmington, o.
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REBS AFTER CUSTER.
The Johnnies Try to Capture tho General at Lacy
Snrlriks. i4l


Ep1ToR NATIONAL TR1BuNE: Lieut.. s. A.
Clark, LIST VI. Cav, thinks that any of the sur
vivors of the 22d N. Y.sCav, 9Th N Y. Cav,
10Th N. Y. Cav. and 1st vt, Cav. will call to
mind the incident that he falatcd about Lacy
Springs Va. / want to say that | well remem-
Der it. 1t was on the morning of Dec. 81, 1864
which was cold and icy, Having rained all
night, the rain freezing as fast as it came down,
leaving the ground sheetr of ice so thT it
was almost impossible for man or horse to
stand. just before the break of day we were
awakened by shots and yels near our camp.
They had by some means passed through our
pickets without alarming them, and came
charging down on us straight for Gen. Clusters
headquarters, with tho evident intention of
capturing him, as was learned afterward from
prisoners, and then slip away as quietly as they
had come. But they found tho boys waiting for
them, and that they had no intention of parting
with their General. When / heard the first
shots and yells jumped for my boots, and after
pulling at them for some time succeeded in get
ing one of them half on the other tied to my
saddle. They were frozen as hard as bullets.
We soon formed, and were ready for them. The
enemy not coming rs we expected them, we were
ordered across the road to the north side, and
Just as we crossed fell out to tighten my sad
die girth, and thus was some distance from tho
regiment. When | mounted man passed me,
aud l heard him ask someone: Where is the
Sth2" On looking around saw n man cover
him with his revolver, and say cit is up
here" No" said tho reb cit is down this
way; go with me and will show you where it
Is" lie went, and as they rode by me ! raised
his long blue overcoat aud found the old gray
pantaloons. think the man that took him
belonged to the 1st VT.
/ found the regiment, and in short time we
were ordered down tho pike to hold the bridge
over the river, some seven or eight miles dis
tant. / do not remember the place. The rebs
took one side of the pike and our regiment the
other At times We could see them, aud they
were skating over the ground as well as our
boys, but we finally got there, and after little
skirmish drove them from the town and saved
the bridge, which they intended to burn. My
horse played out just before reaching Mt. jack
son, and / had to foot 1t TO Winchester. Now,
seeing that Lieut. Clark's memory is so good, l
wish he would tell the boys of the snow ball bat
tic we had that Winter, and how tile LIST VI. Cav.
captured our officers and kept some of them
till the next morning. We were camped in an
open lot at the foot Of the hill, and were ex-
posed to all the cold wind, while the other regi-
ments were camped in the woods and were
protected by the trees.-R. NJ TRUMBULL, Co.
T. 22d N. Y. Cav, Syracuse, N. Y.
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ITFnes DfspateL.l


Whatever else may be said Of the nickel.iu.
the-siot machine, it is strictly honest. If the
charge for working the charm is a nickel it
won't bulge for dime any more than it will
for penny, but 1t always keeps the dime ney-
ertheiess.
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Consumption surely cured.

To the Editor .--PIease inform your readers that
have positive remedy for C0nsnin pon By us timely
use thousands Of hopeless cases have been permanently
cured shall be glad 90 send bottles Of my remedy
FREE any Of your readers who have consumption IL
they will send their Express aud r. O. Address Re.
epecifulIy. 4. A. EL0CUAs If. O.. 1el Pearl 81, M X.
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pEncroL1s. june 2. 1864.

i
6EEERAL: had the honor Of addressing you on
the 18Th Ht- la relation 10 prisoner Philip Hinson,
suspected OF being spy for Gen. Dodge OF the
Federal army. and requesting you 10 collect aud
eeno possible ali the testimony and
proofs az may insure his conviction i now beg
respectfully 10 inclOse you a copy Of my letter, for
fear that the original should miscaFry.
remain, General. very respectfully. your obedi-
ont servant, }. C. DESHIs
Provost Marshal q eneral
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CLPTAFE: Your communication OF the 29ih inst.
q al hand ard "a beg state that Philip
HinsOn is now confined ia the gusrdhouse at Mo-
bile where lie was sent by my order account Of
the insecurity Of the gnardh0usc AT ncmopOlis.
Tie instructions al tie General will be strictly
COMPLIED with. Burton was relieved released
by me- as had 10 proof TO justify his detention.
BE may be OveFtasen and arrested II the General
desires d. ID nIay be well TO state that when met
binsgu aud Burton IN the private Office Of Lieut.
Gen. Polk it said that Hii1sOn the nerv-
See 81 tie Federal Government They proposed 10
go 20 Rome and Atlanta, Ca, 10 arrest Fed
eral spies rho were there, aud WAS instructed 10
send them on that mission at once. obeycd tile
order. But at ilfc same time detective hgent Left
my otices took Tie train. stopped te same
hotels. alfd watched Them closely, returning with
them 10 DeinOpOis. il Is useless say they found
DO Yankee spies Ia either kol8e or Atlanta Ny
special agent reported their conduct aud manners
suspicious in tile extreme showing good deal Of
nerrousuess, etc lie further states that they did
MT register their names q the different hotels as
EiusyH aud Burton. but need fictitious names The
maine 81 tie detective agens il Amos and he Il
nov on duty Ia tise Selma Office.
Very respectfully. your obedicnt servant,
j. q. HHSEFe
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Cure for the Deaf

Peck's Pat improved Tubular Ear Cushions PERFECTLY
cyeE DEAFNESS and noisesn head Unseen, comfortable
EefadJnsting Whispers heard. Secessfhf iohsn an rem,
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18th st. h. 4. Send for illustrated book FREE.
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Ayers sarsaparllla contains Iodide of Potas-
stun and Iron, and vegetable purifiers.
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7 UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION
~ OVER A MILLION DISTRIBUTED,
Louisiana State LOTTERY Company.

Incorporated by the legislature for Educational and
charitable purposes. and It's franchise male part %
me present State Constitution 1879 By cTerWhelm-
Ing popular vote.
Hts MAMMOTH DRAWINGS take pIaee
Semi-Annuaily dune and DeeembeP), and
ITS GRAND SINGLE NUMBER DRAWINGS
take place in each Of the other ten months OF
the year, and are ali drawn in public, az the
Academy OF Music, New Orleans, La
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IMPORTANT.
Address RegSteTad LRtteTs eantaining


NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
New Orleans, Ia,
"REMEMBER, that the payment Of Prizes "a
GUARANTEED BIZ F0TR NATIONAL
BANKS OF New Orleans. and the Tickers are signed
by the President OF Institution whose chartered
rights are recognized IN the highest Courts: tharafor
beware Of all limitations or anonymous schemes"
ONE DOLLAR is the price OF the smallest part OF
fraction OF n ticket ISSUED b Us in any Drawing.
Anything IL our name offered for less than Dclla< Is
swindle
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A Nickel in the Slot.

When you ask for Hoods SarsaparllIa do not
be persuaded 20 buy any other preparation.
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Personal.

Mrs. Isabella Robbie, Grangeville, Ind. T.,
says that her husband, Edward w. Robbie, 1st
Mo. Eng, died on Feb 20 last, from the effects
of a sunstroke received in the army. Anyone
remembering this circumstance will oblige her
by communicating with her.
Samuel j. Denight, 50 East Fifth street, Gin
cinnati, o., was the first man to ship in the
Mississippi Squadron, and was promised 500
bounty when doing so, but lost that amount by
being promoted. he thinks that is very queer
justice.
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Correspondence.

ID. c. Lewis, Co. Z, 18th Mass, Kelseyville,
CAL, would like to hear from James I'll. Graf,
Co. A, 18th Mass, who helped him of the field
of the first Bull Run, and got some 10 months
in AndersonVille for his trouble.
Mrs. A. b. Arnold. Ironton, o., wants 10 cor
respond with all members of Co. Z, Goth Ohio,
who remember Emil Arnold.
Levi w. Huffman, 3l5 Kalorama street,
Staunton. Va, wants to hear from any member
of Co. +, cd Ohio, who remembers Isaac Whis-
Ter aud when he left his regiment.
p. f. Felt, Hospital Steward. 1S7th Ill.,. and
Co. f, 18th H., Laelede, Mo-, would like to cor
respond with comrades who were confined in
Cahaba prison in the Fall aud Winter of 1864,
'6s.
John F. Mccartney. Cadmus. o.. wants to cor
respond with members of Co. ], 44th Ohio Cav.
M Holster. Chicago Dragons, North YAM
hill, Ore, would like to correspond with MEM
bers of Co. K, I'd Ky,
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MbcoE. Miss, July 2, 1864.
Lieut.-Coi. LEyT NcCoLLuM, Chef Provost Mar
siiai. Columbus. Bisz.
CoIJoSELs foa vii Immediately appFehend and
hold sstject Ia the orders al fle
Commanding. J. ~. Burlon assigned 10 duty with
you under orders from this Office.
am. Colonel, very respectfully, your obedient
servant J. q. DESsgs,
Major and Provost Marshal General
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FAMED FOR TWENTY YEARS,
For Integrity of it's Drawings, and
Prompt Payment of Prizes,

Prompt Payment of Prizes,
Attested as follows:
I'VE do hereby certify that ,Cs snspsrviss hs ay-
engagements for all dts Monthly and ssHsi-AnnaGaI
Drawings Of The LOHisianG Stats Lottsry Cons
pafsy, and iH person manage and control gs Dra1s-
lngs themselves, and that The same ara conducted
tr'th honesty fairness and IN good filth toward al
parties, and .cs dstbOrizs the ComPGay to U.S. Aia
certificate, Nth tac-similss Of our sgsaturss a.
tGched, ia Us adUertisemsnts"
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Information Asked and Given.

William II. Young, 5sth Ind, GIG Main St.,
Evansville Ind. wants the address of Simon
+. Utley. Second Lieutenant, 55th Ind, CON-
manding Co. X.
George w. Ford, Co. A, 18th Conn.,, Prescott,
Ariz., would like to hear from any of his CON-
rades who were with the company at Williams
burg, Va, in 1864, and up to July 30, 1864, the
date of the explosion of the mine in front OF
Petersburg.
George w. Hartman, Co. L, Cd Iowa Cav,
Springdale, Ark, wants to know if any of his
comrades remember his being hurt at Iuka In
If SO. they will please communicate with him.
u. Cotton. 5th Ill. Cav, Trident Ark, wants
to correspond with any person who knew Orange
billiard, and the company to which he be-
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-11-15
Absent MindedneSS.

What we call absent-minde is tenn
porary suspension of the faculty Of memo
ry. The mind, intent upon some present
thought, obliterates or obscures the record
Of the past. We may even regard it as n
temporary and partial form of insanity, and
if we find absent-minded most com
mon with persons Of great mental powers.
we may accept the fact rs another illus
tration Of the near al lance between great
genius and madness. Certain it is that
Bruyere's "Absent Man" was no mere
creature of fertile imagination. The or
iginal is said to have been the Count de
Brancas, of whom a curious story is relat
ed. One day he was reading by the fire in
his study, when the nurse brought him a
child newly born to him. The Count threw
away the book and took the child ON his
knee to play with it, BY and by visitor
was announced, and the Count, forgetting
that he had been reading book, threw
the poor infant carelessly on the table.
What a mercy he didn't throw it into the
fire! 1t is recorded of La Fontaine, noted
for his absent mindedness. that he once at
tended the funeral of one of his most in
innate friends, and shortly afterwards call
ed To visit that friend. When reminded by
the astonished servant of the recent death
he was at first terribly shocked, and then
remarked: ''True, of eourse, recollect
now | went to his funeral f"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-11-15
The Blackboard Drivers Mis-
take.

A Bar Harbor blackboard driver is sore
ON account of mistake he made last sum
mer. He had taken passenger, IA young
woman, from near the club house to
"Chatwold" and had told her the price Of
the trip would be 81 50 On the way he
tried to make out whether she was tour
ist or n servant, as, according to an ex-
change, "'his big heart would not allow
him to charge working girl such price
for so short ride" On reaching their
destination tho now conner was met at the
door by one of maids and he decided she
was servant and so gave back the half
dollar when she paid him. Later he
learned that the Young woman was Miss
Mary Garrett, n twenty millionaire, and
he is now inconsolable. "She took the fifty
cents as willingly MS if she had been taking
in washing to earn the money" ia his
plant -Lewistown Journal
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-11-15
Needs More Sense and Fewer
Dollars.

II is not a proper aud commendablC
pride which has led Mrs John W. Mackay
to sue an English paper for saying that
once She was a poor widow with two chlt
drcn. aud that she was employed As 4
washerwomau by Nevada miners when Mr..
Mackcy was first attracted toward her and
fell in love with and married her. She
asks damages because the words suggest
that she was not a lady By birth or educa-
ton and was not accustomed TO associating
with persons Of good position. What real
wrong has been done Mrs. Mackayl It is
no crime to be a widow, provided the hus-
band wasn't poisoned or foully dealt with
in achieving that state. In fact, if it isn't
desirable position, it is o1entimes a
good sort Of lonesome" And as to not
assoeiating with persons of good position
bless the lady's bedizzened and dediamond-
ed soul, How do the Prince Of Wales and
the corrupt, dawdling sensualists, the
titled tribe who deign to accept Mrs.
Mackay's lavish hospitality, while sneering
eovertly at her fawning, costly efforts to
enlist their favOr-how do these compare
with the honest, manly miners OF Nevada'
Take away the Doodle that Jim struck and
shoYeled into her lap. aud this silly woman
would be the most forlorn and ridiculous
figure in Europe. e.-Franklin NcstS.
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Manufacture of Slate Pencils.

One of the most peculiar branches of in
dustry in this country is the manufacture
of slate pencils. There is only one slate
pencil factory in the United States. It
employs % hands, who turn out 10000
slate pencils every day. The method of
manufacture is good deal i'll advance of
the primatiye methods employed some
years back. Not long since the blocks of
soft slate from which pencils are cut were
sawed in lengths and distributed among
the neighboring laborers' families to be
whitfield down to pencil shape. Those
working at them could earn about so cents
per thousand. Now the blocks are put in
to machine and cut into square lengths
by revolving knives, and the lengths are
afterward rounded and polished by emery
belts One man can cut and finish about
5000 pencils per day
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-11-15
The Force OF Dynamite.

Dynamite is SO instantaneous in its
action that green leaf can be compressed
into the hardest steel before it has had time
to llattcn. One of the experiments mt the
United States Torpedo Works was to place
some leaves betw cen two heavy fat pieces
of iron, set them on firm foundation, and
see what gun. cotton would do in forcing
tho iron plates together. A charge was
placed upon them by COMPRISING the gun
cotton into n cylindrical form about one
inch thick and three or four inches in di-
ametcr, through the center of which hole
is made for a cap of illuminate Of mercury,
by which the gun ootton = exploded. The
reaction was so great from merely being
exploded in the open air, that one of the
iron pieces was driven down upon the other
so quickly and with such forco that it
caught an impression of the leaves before
they could seape.-PortidHd Transcript
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-11-15

Many men get credit for what obscure
| persons work out.
A debating society in Berks couny has
sensibly decided that "a cross and clean
woman does not make better wife than
a dirty and good naturcd one.
An Irish editor in speaking Of the mis-
cries of Ireland says: "Her cup of miseries
has been for ages overnowing, and yet il
not full"
An idea of the magnitude of the grape
| growing industry along the Lake Shore
may be gained from the statement that an
average of ten ears n day of grapes have
| been shipped for the past month between
Dunkirk, N. Y. and Erie
There has lately been a sudden rise of
| 10 to Il per cent in the prices of raw i'm.
ported silks This has been traced to the
fact that the crops in both Italy and Japan
are short this season 1t has been known
among the silk importers for some time
that the Italion crops would be short, but
the news that the Japan crop would also
be short did not reach here until Septem
Der 30.
over $4,000, 900 has been spent in
Australia within the last Is years in cf
forts to exterminatc the rabbit, and late
estimates agree that he had also doubled in
numbers during this time When the rab
A. ...I- h. hat ~ lat ,rn
small as he is.
First Village Gossip-"Do you believe
that awful story they are telling about
Miss prim"
Second Village Gossip-"Yes. What is
it,
The musbrnt unitcs with the goose
bone and the corn husk in tho opinion that
the coming winter will be comparatively
mild.
There are two forms of chronic rhcuma-
matism: One in which the joints are swol-
len and red without fever; in the other the
joints are only stiff and painful. In either
form Salvation Oil may be relied on to ef-
feet cure. 1t kills pain. % cents.
Popular discrimination in favor of DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup, has given il larger
sale than any other remedy Of its class.
Price 25 cents.
1t does not take very hard hit ITO
knock somo people silly.
In an oyster campaign of course the
enemy is shelled.
One disagrecable feature about postage
stamps is that they are apt to get stuck on
themselves.
When the stars above are not shining
they are probably locked up in the star
chamber.
The surest way for man to have
greatness thrust ON him is To get himself
lost in Africa.
Strange that the White House should
be oyerrun with rats, when il Is such u
strong Union establishment
Money is tight, said the street ear
uiiNtF aN u uokcu hlui'' E't ''t'' - ~
of the coin carriers Of his car
-REy. SAM JONES is one Of the most
eloquent preachers this country ever pro
duced. When undor full headway he has
command of language which Beecher or
Talnage never dreamed Of We extract a
sinele gem from recent sermon. lie re
braVest type Of Christian ! know OF. He
just jumped on Herod and paved bis leath
ers out.