Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-27
4 eEAurlruL SERMON.

Tho Impression It Made ON Two Pious
Society Maldens.
Scene: A Fashionable Boudoir.
Alice-O. mother, we have had such
q beautiful sermon!
Eva-Lovely!
Kate-Most eloquent!
Mother-I am the more sorry that
this swollen face has kept me away
from church. Who was the preacher?
Alicia stranger. The verger could
not tell us his name.
Eva-But q most striking looking
man.
Kate-And his voice was heavenly.
Alice-And we shall never forget
what he said.
MOther-What was his text?
Eva-His text! Let me see. Alice,
where was his text?
Alice-I-I think it was from St.
Luke.
Kate-O, Alice! How can you say so?
Why. it was from Deuteronomy.
Alice-That 1 am sure it was not.
Why, he kept talking of the evan
gelist-
Mother-Perhaps, my dears. if you
told me the words I should know the
place.
Alice-I never could remember
words.
Eva-Nor L
Kate-They don't think any thing of
mere verbal repetition at the high
school
Mother-But I should like to CLEAN
some Information of this beautiful SCR
mon. What was it about?
Alice CATER pause)-Well, mother,
it was about-it was about-religion.
Mother-I presume so; but that is
rather wide subject, and capable of
varied treatment. What particular
branch of it did he take up?
Eva-O, mother! his action was so
gracefhl-not too violent, you know,
but just sufficient to enforce attention.
! enforce attention, l am waiting to hear
few particulars of what he said.
Alice-There was some striking
| anecdotes.
Kate-Yes; that one about the bear.
for instance. A Laplander was once
| pursuing bear
Eva-Now, Kate! The bear was pur-
suing him.
Kate-Well, it was one way or the
other. And the Laplander had Bible
| in his breast pocket which his moth err
had given him.
Eva-No; his grandmother.
Alice-It was not a Laplander at all.
You are confusing it with another an
ecdote. 1t was ayoung English sailor.
Kate-Well. Laplander or English
| sailor, or whatever he was, he was
| just close to the bear when
Eva-You are leaving out the best
part of the story. Before he started
| his grandmother had said to him
Kate-Ah, yes; but, if you remem-
Der, he had first said to his grand
Eva-You are quite wrong.
Kate-Do let me go on. At all events
he and his grandmother had been talk
ing together.
Alice-You forget, Kate, that the
grandmother was deaf and dumb. That
was the touching part of the story. So
she pointed to the Bible
Kate-Nonsense. Alice. am sure
| the grandmother
Mother-I am afraid. dears, you
| will not make much of that anecdote.
But let me know the main drift and
| design of the sermon.
Eva-Mother, dear, you are a little
| tiresome. You can not expect US to
| repeat the sermon right off. 1t gave
US a great deal of most excellent adj
| vice.
Mother-In reference to what?
Eva-O. our conduct. never heard
one more calculated to do good.
| The illustrations were especially
| clever.
Mother-As, for instance?
| Eva-It would be impossible to do
them justice, you see, if you separate
them from the context.
Mother-Well, then, we will drop
the illustrations. I shall be satisfied
with the heads of the discourse.
| Alice-I don't think it had any
| heads.
Kate-How can you say so? am
sure he spoke of coming to the last
head, though forgot what it was.
Eva-We met the Tidfits coming out
of church and they heartily agreed
with us in our admiration of the SER
mon.-Chicago Tribune.