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Show A Highly Practical Illustration. Practical Illustrations in English politics poli-tics and the pulpit are growing frequent:. The other day a clergyman began his discourse With a fresh, green walnut In his hand. He began an object lesson: "Consider, my friends, this walnut Its rind, which I now remove, is soft useless, use-less, unprofitable. It is like our brethren breth-ren of the ' persuasion. Now come to the shell. It Is hard and strong, difficult diffi-cult to crack; but there is no taste or nourishment in it It Is valueless. It is like our friends, the t v Now, when we are rid of the shell we come to the kernel. This, my frle-tds. la like our own church. Is" He broke the shell and took out the kernel. It was rotten. |