Show CHANGE SPOILED THE EFFECT min ministers un unfortunate fa alteration of 13 phraseology william w willlam dean howells at one of his bunday afternoon receptions was talking about the r slight light change of phrase that may suffice to make an impressive thing ous I 1 remember a sermon that I 1 heard be he said in my boyhood in martin s ferry the quaint ohio town it was a sermon about judas and the minister after reading to us how judas betrayed the master for thirty pieces of silver added thirty pieces of sliver silver dear fria Is s Is 18 in ou on money and anen he went on hea edly yes judas betrayed the master he prostituted that holy the I 1 iss for the small sum of 18 the change of phrase ws slight mr howells con concluded cIdAd but somehow it sufficed to make everybody smile |