Show Palpable sfts Taverly Magazine A good old story is told of a minister who after a protracted sermon from a temperance orator who had in too great abundance he gift of contnu nce arose and remarked Let us now sing hymn No soandsO And are we et alive Possibliit is rather too gopd to be true but it suggests the care that needs to bi exercised in the choice of hymns At the annual meeting of a womans missionary society the minister of the church was asked to preside to give gve special dignity to the celebration As often happens at these festivities it was one of those perfectly impossible days which daunt even the dauntless I I was in March and after a heavy snowfall a warm thaw had set in ad companied by pouring rain The slush was more than ankledeep overshoes were a mocker arid umbrellas were equally futile The pastor and his wife and eight valiant women assembled I for he meeting and struggled bravely I for cheerfulness The minister hurriedly hur-riedly chose a hYn and they sur roundM his desk and began to sing Savior visit thy plantation Grant us Lord a gracious rain They got through the first three verses but on the first line of the fourth But a drouth has since succeeded suc-ceeded the fresh young voice of the pastors wife who was the leader wavered and stopped I was ot no use Then nine zealous missionary workers had to stop and laugh and the pastor cordially joined in Next tm you ask me to lead he said 1 will choose the hymns before I come into the pulpit I |