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Show Wall Said. Mr. Spnrgcon has been reviewing a book on '-Primitive Methodism ou the Yorkshire Wolds," and linds in it soino stories very much to his mind. Ho is especially pleased with one criticism of a scrir.ou. "Ah. say, mister, you preached a goodish sermon tonight, but if it had been cut short at each end, and set a-lire a-lire in tho middle, it wad a dean us maro good." Mr. Spurpeon 'scarcely remembers a b'-'u-r criticism than this." An'-thcr story is of a not very fluent yo.ing nun, who, being in the habit of saying In his prayer:,, Lord, help me to i.'t.iV;" va answmtJ one night by nn old io:ri's f.-jaculaticn: "And the Lord helped thee to give over." Mr. Spurgenn also likes tho story of a clergyman who, nt, a noisy prayer 'meeting, commanded silence and suid: "My dear friends, the Lord is not deaf. Mow, don't you think you could pray a-little a-little more" quietly? You remember, when the temple was being built at Jerusalem, (hen.- was no sound of any tool hc.ird in it whiio building." "Yes. sir," said one of the brothers, "that's a'! very true; but, you sec, we'ru not building the tuuiplo, we'lo only blasting the rocks." |