Show SNPETE SAYfNGS SANFETE Co June 10th 82 Egitory Herald The witty and peculiarsayings of children among us are often ass as-s iey as anything one may see gathered up for the columns of the 1ultdo Blade and are just as sharp The other Sunday the superintendent superintend-ent of one of our Sunday schools in this i county proposed for the rest Sunday an exhaustive Bible research as to the parentage of the Savior the prophecies relating thereto and who had any knowledge of his birth Next Sunday saw a little army of boys and girls armed ready for the Biblical fray At the call of the superintendent the chapter and verse were excellently given till every text relating thereto was laid bare when the superintendent asked if any one in the room could give any additional proof as to those who had a knowledge of the Saviors birth Aw > y off in the ia corner of the room a little hand is raised signifying mar me tIle owner had something to say On being invited to speak what she had to say as to who had a knowledge of the Saviors birth the wee little thing answered His mother Astonishment i As-tonishment sat on the face of all I present for a few seconds which was swept away by a burst of almost al-most uproarious laughter In my travels I overtook a gentleman gentle-man without purse or scrip pointing point-ing for Manti He solicited the vacant seat and we were soon on the errand of mercy he proposed to dispenEe to the ancient city of Manti We ascended the terraces of this choice temple spot and counted her towers rooms and ways So unique a building and so foreign to the purposes of his leader who carefully ignores what his father did was surprising to him Arriving at the metropolis I asked him where I should de nnsit him and his well freiQhten valise The name he gave was one not of the orthodox but of one who had looked back from the plow His next anxiety was to procure pro-cure a place to preach in He applied ap-plied to the reverend minister in charge of the Presbyterian Chapel for a chance to preach therein i Rumor says a colloquy like this ensued en-sued The RevuI believe the faith you represent is based upon a belief in a material God Answer by the elderuYes sir proceeding to fortify his position by I Bible proofs Stop stop this nouse is erected to the worship of an immaterial being of the strict Calvanistic type and you cannot preach here such doctrine as we believe to be heterodox hetero-dox The house remained closed to the elder Next he applied to the owner of the hall to which he was referred Dy the reverend for his permission per-mission but alas I this is a man of ducats out not a man of wondrous itching palm but a man that liked to pay and be paid so he thought his hall worth 8150 for this night only The signs portended the elders visit would be short in this city of the shrine I visited that indefatigable man at Gunnison who smilingly contemplates contem-plates his mow I1 crODS of sorQhum and hopes successfully to compete for the legislative sugar bait none I think can beat him even with the I I bait itself I next found myself in the tempi of justice where his honor was inquiring of a youth matrimonially inclined though opposed op-posed by a very irate mother of the damsel why he delivered property not his own for one of his youthful debts his photo set in the iron grating of the Hotel Sanpete was but suggestive of deferred hopes Right across the river from Manti rumor has it there is a bonanza that even a Mackey might envy and a railroad extend thereto I O U |