The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-27
IRISH HUMOR.
Cornhill Magazine.

Cornhill Magazine
In remote country village, far from
the madding crowd, German speculative
theories with which he was more familiar
tnan geography would have seemed
about the last thing likely to influence his
flock, but he was ever haunted by an
awful fear of the havoc that might be
wrought among them by such pernicious
doctrines II they were not duly warned
My brfthern," he said on one occasion.
there are some German philosophers
that say there is no resurrection. and.
me britheren, it would be better for thin
German Philosophers If, like JUDAS Is
CARROT, they had never been born And
TINS recalls to my mini another discourse,
where the preacher wound up with the
comforting assurance that If we pad due
attention to the instruction we had lust
received from him we would "all return
to our several homes like babes refreshed
with new made wine
1t was on another occasion that the
same speaker, having assembled the pulpit,
gave out his text with all due solemnity
as 1olloWs: MY text is taken from the
thlrty-sixth chapter of Genesis, and the
second verse-tAnd Esau took his wives
OF the daughters of CanaaR'-or rather
should say, the tWenty-severtll chapter
ana the ti1rty-eighth verse -Isless me,
even me, also, [ my father, " And then.
as one of his hearers aptly remarked, he
proceeded to preach a sermon which had
nothing to say to either of them
Absent mindedness and a weakness for
metaphor are no doubt responsible for
much. To the former l credit 6 discourse
in which the reverend preacher alluded
to 'Goliath fighting on behalf of the
lsraelites. while King Solomon sat by
moodily in his tent" and to the latter a
striking smile, which deeply impressed
the feminine portion ofthe congregation.
who were told that the grave was the
great wardrobe of the world where we
are folded up and put by, to be taken out
new at the resurrection" BuC both of
these are eclipsed by an eloquent speaker
VINO IN the course of an eXtempore adj
dress had wandered into mediaevaI his
tory. And that haythen Soliman," he
SAID, Whin he was lynn dead upon the
ground, sat UP an said to his friends,
Behold, you now see the end of Soil
man. S"
do not deny that there may occa-
slonally be want of comprehension on
the part of the audience. What was the
sermon about today Mary?" inquired
mistress if her domestic Please
m M said Mary, twisting the corner
of her apron, 1--WE forgotten the text
but 1t was about young men" "Oh, real
ly, said the lady; land what else was
1t about Please. nm, it was about
me anything Mr.. B. said?" 81 couldn't re-
peat 1T exactly, nm, for it was a mixed
up kind of sermon; but it was very
interesting, added the maiden
But any attempt to fathom the mind
of a congregation is usually fraught
with danger. A priest who had delivered
what seemed to him striking sermon
was anxious to ascertain its effect on
his flock. WAS the sermon today to
y'r ikin. Pat?' he inquired of one OF
them. "Throth yr reverence, it was a
grand sermon intirely,'' said Pat, with
such genuine admiration that his rever-
ence felt moved to investigate further
Was there any part of it more than
another that seemed to take hold of YEP
he inquired. well, now, as We are AKIN
me, begerra, I'll tell ye What TUX
hoult of me most was y'r riverence,s
parseverance-the way We whit over the
same thing again and again and again.
Such perseverance niver did see in amy
man, before nor SINCE
One sample more and I have finished.
for cannot do better than bring my ar
ucle to an end with the concluding words
of sermon on grace-"And, me brither-
en-, If We have in y'r hearts wan spark
of heavenly grace, wather it, watTler it
continually"