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Show v Sate to Bnmaiu. The fact is not stated, but this little occurrence, reported by the New York Sun, must have taken place in the good old times wiicn ministers were more eloquent, or congregations more patient, pa-tient, than is the case at present. A stranger entered the meeting-house in the middle of the service, and took a seal in the back pew. Presently he whispered to the man at his side, evidently evi-dently one of the old members: "How long has he been preaching?" Thirty or forty years, I think," answered an-swered the elderly man. "I don't know exactly." .. - "I'll stay, then," said the stranger. "He must be nearly done." |