Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-20
A BEAUTIFUL SERMON.
The Impression 1t Made on Two Piouf
Society Maidens.

Society Maidens.
Scene: A Fashionable Boudoir.
Alice-O, mother, we have had such
beautiful sermon!
Eva-Lovely!
Kate-Most eloquent!
Mother-I am the moro 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 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 | am sure it was not.
Why, he kept talking of the evan
gelist.
Mother-Perhaps, my dears. if you
told me the words / should know the
place.
Alice-I never could remember
words.
Eva-Nor /.
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 a wide subject, and capable of
varied treatment. What particular
branch of it did he take up?
Eva-O, motheri his action was SO
graceful-not too violent, you know,
but just sufficient to enforce attention.
Mother-And, as it was sufficient to
enforce attention, am waiting to hear
a 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 a Bible
in his breast pocket which his mother
had given him.
Eva-No; his grandmother.
Alice-1t was not a Laplander at all.
You are confusing it with another an
ecdote. 1t was young 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 ad-
vice.
Mother-In reference to what?
Eva-O. our conduct. Inever 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. l 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