The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-24
IT'S MORE BLESSED TO SHORE
THAN LISTEN TO SERMONS.
~~As~----s~~
RHAMk ATTE ROASTER.

They lean over to aich other an whis-
per an rustic tn laves iv tn hymn
books an tn soopraner twists her
iligant head northeast an tn alto
jerks her head southwest to kape THEN
hats frum intherferin' with tn con-
Versation. an roight thin a choice bill
iv gossip is swoped. Prisintly, fl
tn shnace iv nome seconds be tn clock
there is pace in tn CURE an We
cud hear grasshopper hop or tn
mentil anguish iv tn deacon as he
thinks iv tn tonne he must hand out
FIR incidintal expinsis. Suddint loike
livery wan iv tn CURE jumps to his
feet an scares tn origin till it roars
loike god in pain an tn race is on!
Whin tn volunteers is covered thin
silVes with glory be pullin' oft tn vol
untaIy, me frien' tn pllychoor ad-
justs his monocle an roises, sayin,
Hymn wan fifty thray, wan-hfty-
thray." TIL quire, not wishin us plain
divils to shpoil tn harmony iv tn
song, fixes up a choone brand new to
kape us frum jinin' in. BE tn tonne
thot is put through, Oh git through
Says OF to mesilf. Faith, an Oh wisht
Oi moight be in me own back yard
with me cheer tilted over again tn
fenct shmokin' me poipe whole oil
peroose tn mornin pn-a-per' Wan
afther another iv tn preliminaries an
other miscellaneous matther is waded
through, includin' a multichood iv
Everything thot makes yure shpinal
column AXE an yure oyelidS heavy, an
thin tn praychoor hits his tiki twict
bechune tn Dyes, takes off his monocle,
clears his throaX, and says. says he
'Brethrin an an oil, Hennessy,
thinkin' TIL mkt wurrd to be 'Sistrin.'
an KNOWN if it is, thot tn matther
IS IN safe hands, | dhrop off to shape.
fall on shape. as tn obitchooary
wroiters say an punchooate tn pol
ished swim thousand year old discourse
with some iv tn hnndsomist shnores
We he'd tn exquisite plashoor iv listin'
10 since We heard yure ould fa-atherI
sixty years ago. An livery mither's|
son iv tn congregation, an tn daugh-
Tiers, too. ar-re 50 inyious iv me tones
thot they cud swat ne twict a piece
Ihot, HenneSsy, is eniyin praychin'
II IS IN akme ~ synagogical bliss.
hin is whin me an MonSoo DIaham-
met is rollickin' doom tn milky way Nv
IN siVinteenth hivin. 1t is great
Ather wan hour, praps, an twinty
mlnlts, Oh am reused frum me shlum
oers be tn welcome voice iv tn pray
cher, utterin' tn benediction. Indade.
re ARE nutty if We niver shape
whole tn sermont is bein' enacted"
An whin tn divil makes up his
Goals he Will gather We in his bins, |
90, said Mr.. Hennessy. Eye shud be |
put TO Jail, an it's roight."
An Oh may grace tn bins an OF |
nay go to jail Hennessy, but tell me. |
u asst ye, shpake out an tell me, PLAT |
V tn praychoor an the quire thot |
lut me to shape. 1t may be more |
blessed to rasave thin to give in money
natthers, but it's different whin it
.omes doom to raSavin a canned ser
mont trimmed in rhetoric. manu- |
achoored be tn theology cannin fac
ny, unlimited, established sivinteen
hundred years ago be a monk in tn
lark ages, rasavin 1t tWict a week FIR
II yure loife An it's different whin
e ar-re FORCED to sat an bark TO
modern quire go into eruption iv all