Show I 1 I 1 application it hardly seems possible that the subjoin ed s specimen to of a pulpit exercise in iii texas can be authentic and yet w we e are ip informed formed by a brother editor in that region that it is is entirely true he himself having heard it delivered I 1 one ofie of the most zealous preme preacher berer who draws illustrations from every thing and suffers no opportunity anity to pass at all admitting of a moral arrived at his is log church one morning quite late and took for his text I 1 I 1 marvel n not and then he went on in the following strain in in his peculiar poon liar drawling nasal hilf half singing my friends the scripture says marvel not anat nd hence it is wrong to marveler marvel er As I 1 was vms a riding along thi this s morning er on my way to this place I 1 happened to look up bp and I 1 seed a parcel of boys a belaying mar bleser bles er there was a lean boy so thin that is see seemed nied as cheugh if be had bad been a little thinner phin nei the wind when it blew would blow him away er and there was a fat hoy boy there so fat that if he had been a little fatter he would have looked almost as am broad as he was longer er cr and they were irig mar bleser bleser and I 1 heard what they said er and soon I 1 heerd beerd the lean boy so thin that it seemed as though ef he had been a little thinner the wind when it blew would blow him J away er bayl r im fat and he be lieder lied er for he was u no 0 more e fat than I 1 iwas was er and they played again ar er and I 1 feord the fat boy so fat that ef ho he had been a little fatte rhe would have bave looked almost as broad as he was longer er say pm im lean and he lioa lied er forlie for he was no more lean than I 1 and there come up a little boy who was very spry as spry as a cricket ei bk and he kept running about and jumping and shouting inger rig ar er and he played with ith the rest and in in a little while I 1 heerd beerd him say say by golly pm im deader dead er and he be lied for he be was no more dead than I 1 was or er now my brethren the scripture pure says thou not lle lie er and you bod see how mar aleine er loads to lying er and you see how very wrong it is to marble alid an d therefore isay again marvel not er 1 knickerbocker for forbay forI may ay I 1 SPOILING AN APPETITE the e rev dr allen alien formerly pastor of the congregational church in duxbury mass mase was one of the old time eccentricities of that state among mono the anecdotes related of him we ve find the following good one in the new england edgland farmer during a visit to Bo boston bostoc on a certain occasion he was invited to dine with an ac 1 who had once failed but then lived in great st style y ae he entered the house just before the dinner hour and after glancing at the ostentatious parade upon the table and the other extensive arrangements made to entertain him he quickly slipped off his sudden disappearance excited no little wonder the feast ws s delayed but the guest kasnot was wa snot not seen again that day dav sometime after he be called upon chiq friend and on being asked for an explanation of his conduct he replied that when he saw what an elegant dinner was wag in in preparation I 1 for him the that his poor neighbor parishioner and H naming a townsman woodad stad suffered severely by the failure of this very man had nothing but clam to flat so destroyed his hia appetite that he be was glad to ta leave the house bouse it is a happy thing for some folks that appetites are not so easily spoiled nowa now a day days s I 1 I 1 another anecdote of tr dr allen alien may be called fled SIN IN x FIDDLE when A violin was first introduced into the choir of ehfe church the innovation gave great offence offense to some of the worthy parishioners especially was the player of the bass viol exercised with sorrow and indignation when cheli the frivolous and profane fiddle first took its place in the I 1 house of f god by the side of his sedate sedat and port portly 1 ly instrument he accordingly laid the cafe case bf b before f ore the ehg parson who after listening soberly to his complaints replied it may be I 1 as you say sir I 1 dont know but you are right but ir if you are it strikes me the greater the fiddle the greater the sin in the hero of the big fiddle was |