The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-09-13
ONE SUNDAY MORNING
"A Story Full of Suggestions
By Herbert Otto Chambers Pastor M. E. Church. South

off my coat and tried to cool down
| You see. said to myself: ut will b.
awfully hot over there in that church
might get overheated and contrac
pneumonia and thereby ruin my healtl
and / am just going to stay at HON,
and take care of myself. Anyhow,
| think do pretty well to get to Sunda.
school day like this" This l saiC
with a triumphant air No one seemed
| to be impressed. So the next case wa'
called,
ION the third Sunday in August vol
were away also"
| Yes, | believe was. | had almost
forgotten that, but remember that
was"
why so?"
"I'll just tell you about IT. | didn't
get to Sunday school either. You
| know that Neighbor Nabor is not q
church member. but he is very good
| fellow 1t is true, he never goes &c
Church and is careless about the Sab
bath But he came along in that big
automobile of his and invited me tC
ride with him. We went on and on
| He asked me il wanted to be back In
| time for Church. | told him at first
| that | did. You know | don't get &c
ride in automobiles much, and fee
| the need of fresh air. So just said tc
him: Lets just go on. I'll get more
out of this ride than l will get out OF
church service. So we went on. And
besides, brethren, who knows how
much good / may have done the man
| that day?"
| looked around upon the congrega-
| ton with the feeling that ] had ex-
ploded a bomb and that all would be
duly impressed. None seemed TO be
however, and felt that l was losing
ground
Another Steward asked me about the
second Sunday in September.
/ tried to think. why was away
on that day? All have it now. Some
of our friends were the cause of that
They reached our town at eight O'Clock
Sunday morning. l had to meet them
After returning from the depot felt
| so tired out that just didn't have the
energy to get to the morning service
Besides, our friends did not want to
go. OF course it would not be cour-
teous to go to church if your friends
die not want to 60"
All this explained to the brethren
but no one seemed to feel that had
offered any weighty arguments in my
case.
You failed us again on the third
Sunday in September" someone said.
I'll admit it," said
Then why?" he snapped.
In his voice was something cold,
cutting, knifelike- something which
seemed to say: Prepare for the worst
for your condition Is indeed serious"
"On that morning | was reading a
very fine book before Sunday school.
So when the school session was over
| thought l would run over and read
few lines before church. | became
deeply interested and read on. !
thought l would get to church by the
time to preach. But reading along,
the thought came to me: You can
get much more out of this book than
from the church service / knew this
must be so, for had often heard peo-
pie say So"
Looking over my congregation | saw
that | had not a friendly eye turned
on me- Ny excuses were no good !
was just rising to remind these breth-
rem that they had no authority TO try
a regular itinerant minister when one
of my stewards stood up, aimed a
double barreled shotgun at me and
pulled the trigger There was a terri
fic explosion and awoke to find that
| had dropped the volume of Hastings
Dictionary of the Bible" which | had
been reading before | fell asleep.