Utah County Democrat | 1908-10-27 | Page 5 | Do Ten Drops Make a Rain?

DO TEN DROPS MAKE A RAIN? If 8o, Printer's Bill to Praying Clergyman Clergy-man It Liquidated. Woodstock, Mass. Tho recent drought in Now England has raised a question In Woodstock. Ono of the clergy of the town thought It would be fitting to hold a union service to pray for rain, In which all denominations denomina-tions should Join, He went to the local printer nnd asked him how much ho would charge for turning out 1,000 handbills' to be distributed among the churches announcing the service. "It won't cost you a cent, sir, if ruin Is tho result," was tho highly satisfactory reply. The handbills were put around, the servico was hold, and the congregation congrega-tion was overflowing. Next day thoro fell about ten drops of rain In Woodstock Wood-stock and a heavy shower in Stock bridge, a few miles away. What is puzzling the good citizens of Woodstock it why, If they prayed for rnln, did tho Stockbrldgo folk get the benefit of it, and will the printer consider ten drops of precipitation iuf-ficient iuf-ficient to llauldale i' little accotmt.