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Show PROMPTLY TOLD HIS DESTINATION! Unexpected Response to a Pompous Lecturer's Ill-Tlnied Inquiry. All that transpires in the Sunday schools of the land does not breathe of that piety which is supposed to permeate per-meate the place and its surroundings. A visitor to a Philadelphia gathering of juveniles one Sunday recently in addressing the children said in a pompous pom-pous manner: "I come from Massachusetts; I am now on my way to Maryland, and I have stopped over here to talk to you children and to save you from going to hell." After repeating this introduction introduc-tion to his remarks, the visitor said: "Now, my children, where did I come from?" "Massachusetts," was the reply, In chorus. "Where am I going?" he then asked. There was a pause; his geographical geograph-ical route had evidently not been deeply deep-ly impressed on the gathering. Then the silence was broken "To hell!" came the prompt and startling repl froii a.i earnest but confused pupil. |