Show Beechers Deacon Went to Sleep Pew sleepers are ono of the bni bears of preacners said the net Robert Collyer tho veteran New Yai minister I can speak feeling from experience On ono occasto when Henry Want Beecher asked 1111 to go to Plymouth Church to talk to this t-his people he remarked Jokingly 111 us hopethat most of them wero had working folk who needed plenty ot rest on Sunday and ho felt that a set mon from me might be gratefully received re-ceived In the course of my talk I men tloned this and said that It was however how-ever a matter upon which my feeling could not be hurt and that owed this ImpervIousness to Mr Beecher himself him-self I told them that one Sunday years before when I was attoullng a service at old Plymouth and Mr Bcechor was thundering forth I salT ono of his deacons asleep In a front pew pewI II went on to say that always after this whenever I saw a man slumberIng slumber-ing peacefully through my most stirrIng stir-ring efforts in the pulpit I would sato sa-to myself Well let him sleep eve the great Beecher cant keep em an awake Success I |