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Show HI8 TURN" TO CRITICISE. Youngster Felt Called on to Manifest Disapproval of Prayer. Littlo John, who, at the mature ago of four, has learned tho Lord's Prayer, Is often criticised by his sister, two years older, for slight mistakes which ho cannot always avoid In offering tho potttlon. A few Sundays ago ho waB taken to church for tho first time. When tho moment for tho prayer arrived ar-rived nnd tho congregation bowed their heads John's mother took tho precaution to whisper to him that ho must bo very quiet. "Listen," sho said, "and you will hear tho minister pray." This interested John at onco, and his littlo faco took on a look of serious attention, but his mother, watching him covertly, saw his expression ex-pression chango presently to ono of Burprlso and disapproval. A fow minutes min-utes more, and ho could stand it no longer. What could this man bo saying? say-ing? Not a word ot tho prayer did ho rccognjze as the only formula ho had ever heard called by that narao. "Why, mother," ho exclaimed, In a tono audlblo over nearly half tho church, "do you hear? Ho Isn't saying say-ing It right at all I" |