Eureka Reporter | 1905-09-22 | Page 3 | He Finished the Sentence

HE FINISHED THE SENTENCE ng on cut over of church J trowbridge the aged au hor is writing his autobiography at hia home in arlington mass mr trow bridge was born in ogden N Y the da he said from ogden I 1 went to school at loci port in boyhood and there was a lockport stonecutter whom 1 used to like to talk to for he had a mind AS simple as a child s I 1 kemem her a job trat he once undertook the ob ot cutting a sentence from scripture Scrip tuie over the door of a little stone churco the committeemen who eti him with this job dian didn t con i 3 s childlike un reflect ing nature r they have couched their ader in the terms they did they wanted the sentence my hause shall be called a house ot pray r he told them they had better rite t down for him but they said it would only he necessary to write down the chapter and verse and he could colv tha ba out ot abe book well our lockport stonecutter copied the sentence but he dian didn t end where he should have ended he went right on to the sentence s conclusion the result was that the legend ver the church door read M house shall be called a house of prayer but ye have made it a den of thi