The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-30

that immersion was all a, mistake. In
one of his sermons he made a pretty
good point by showing that on one oc-
casion John the baptist baptized SO
many people in the course of a day
that he must have averaged three to
the rlinute This, the preacher claimed,
would have been impossible if he had
done ii in any other way than
by Sprinkling. Mr.. Humphreys only
laughed when they told him about this
sermon, and said, Just wait till we
have our regular spring baptizing sea-
SON. So the next spring, when there
were about forty people young and old
waiting to join the BaptiSts, Mr. Hum
phreyS, he takes the whole To-
down to the creek and immerseS every
one of them in less than ten IiIinutes,
breaking the record and beating John
the Baptist's best time. This made
him more popular than ever, and that
year the people built him a new church
twice as big as the old one. It stands
on the hin about a mile out Of Athens
Vile. for when lit was built it was cal
lated that the town would grow in that
direction, which somehow it hasn't
done.
ct tell this just to show what an en-
herprising man the parSon was. he in
sisted on having the tallest steeple to
his new. church that could be found
anywhere in Montana. territory, and
b'gosh he got it People used tc come
from miles away to climb up in that
steeple and see the view. There wasn't
any view to speak of, the country be-
ing too hiily in those parts to have
much scenery. but for all that the peo-
rDle are anxious Ito say that they had
been to the top of the steeple.
There was am old maid in Hum
Eshrey'S congregation who was more
determined to get married than any
woman YOU ever saw. She was one of
those thin, persevering looking women,
and mighty dangerous sort they are.
Miss Payson. which was the LADY,
name. was bound 30 marry a, young
man by the name of Halsey, who had
never. done her any harm and was
about as sensible and well behaved a
rhar as there was in all AthenSville.
OF course he didn't have the least idea
of marrying the woman, but he was
one of those good tempered chaps that
are always afraid to say no when a
woman asks them to do anything.
Good temper is the ruin of lots Of folks.
It's kept me down, know that. If I'd
been one OF these cruSty, ranpageouS
fellows that never does a kind action
ST he can help 1T, ] should have been
SUPERINTENDENT of this road instead of
being only q station master at one Of
the smallest stations in the territory
Never you be too good tempered. OF
the two it ruins more men than
whisky.
One dag Miss Payson she gets young
Halsey to take her up in the steeple OF
the Baptist church. You see visitors
were always going up that steeple be
trFeen the hours OF 10 and 8. during
which the sexton staid ait the church
TO attend to things and see that every
body conducted themselves as they
should. At o'clock he locked up the
door that led to the steeple, and then
he locked up the chuarch door, and
went home for the night.
Miss Payson and her young man
went I'D thu steeple about O'clock in
THE afternoon, but she said she enjoyed
OF so much that Halsey was prevailed
upon 70 stay there with her good
deal later than he had intended to
stay She kept him pointing out all
the houses In the town, and every hill
and valley IN the whole neighborhood,
and when she finally asked him to look
sat his watch and tell her the time, she
was, as she pretended, dreadfully
alarmed ITO find that it was half-past 3.
EIelSey rim down the stairs and found
slzzt t1ae door was locked, and nobody