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Show THAT PHONOGRAPH. It Flayaei the Minister False Who Wonld Hun It Freaoh. It is strange that no one but a Kanaka Kan-aka pastor, full of the life and energy that has come to that state, would have thought of the phonograph as his substitute in the pulpit while absent on a vacation. It is reported that an earnest and progressive pastor, leaving leav-ing his flock for a vacation, left a 30-minute 30-minute sermon on a cyiinder to be delivered de-livered at the proper time. The hymns wer sung, a brother had offered prayer, and the announcements had been made, when one of the deacons brought forward the phonograph, placed it upon the pulpit, and announced an-nounced that, when set in motion, it would give a devoted flock one of the sermons which had so endeared tho pastor to the congregation. Thereupon the good deacon set the machine in motion. No one can imagine the consternation con-sternation of the congregation when the phonograph gave out the song, "Dinah de Moon Am Shining." The song ended, but there was no break the terrible machine proceeded to relate re-late a number of up-to-date but not very Sunday or pulpit stories. No one understood the machine, but after 20 minutes the deacon grasped the irreverent irrev-erent phonograph and hurried out of the church. The much-beloved pastor mlfrht have been called before a council coun-cil had it not been discovered that the sermon-loaded phonograph had been left in charge of a son of Belial with the weakness of a practical joker. Indianapolis Journal. |