Show Be Beech echers cra deacon went to sleep pew sleepers are one ot of the bug bears of preachers said the rev robert collyer tho the veteran new minister I 1 can speak feelingly from experience on one occasion when henry ward beecher asked me to go to plymouth church to talk to his people he remarked jokingly let us hope bope that most of them were ere hard bard working folk nho needed plenty of rest on sunday and he felt that a sermon from me might be gratefully received in the course of my talk I 1 men cloned this and said bald that it was however a matter upon which my feelings could not be hurt and that I 1 owed this imper to mr air beecher him self relf I 1 told them that one sunday years before aben A hen I 1 vs M as atten attending ling a serice sen ice at old plymouth and mr deecher was thundering forth I 1 saw one of his deacons asleep la in a front pew 11 I 1 ft v ent on to say eay that always actor this Nh whenever enever I 1 saw a roan man slumber ing peacefully through my most stirring efforts in the pulpit I 1 would say to myself well let him sleep even the great beecher cant keep era cm all awake success |