River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-07-04
A BEAUTIFUL SERMON.
The Impression 1t Made Two Pious
Society Maidens.

The Impression 1t Made on Two Pious
Society Maidens.
Scene: A Fashionable Boudoir.
Alice-O, mother, we have had such
a 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 a 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 SOP
Why. it was from Deuteronomy
Alice-That | am sure it was not.
Why, he kept talking of the evan
gelist.
Mother-Perhaps. my dears. IL you
told me the words l 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 / should like to CLEAN
some information of this beautiful SER
mon. What was it about?
Alice CATER a pause)-Well. mother.
il was abOut-it was abOut-religion.
Mother presume so; but that is
rather a wide subject, and capable of
varied treatment What particular
branch OF it did he take upp
Eva-O. motherl 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
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 a 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 mother
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
mother
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. 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 ny 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
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