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Show might appear in the publishers' catalogue cata-logue every month without arousing local pride, but with the preachers it is different. When a minister turns author that old saw about the prophet being without honor in his own country coun-try is disproved with a vengeance. Every fall there is a considerable literary lit-erary output by the pastors of New York churches. The first place where j those volumes are put on sale is in the j bookstores near the church where the minister preaches, and usually the largest sales are made there." New' York Times. Disproving an Old Adage. Bent on an errand of mercy, a city prowler made his way into a strange neighborhood. What impressed him most was the bookstore windows. In every one for blocks around were stacks of a new book he had never heard of by a writer of whose identity he was equally ignorant. "Who is this man?" he finally asked. Why is he so popular hereabouts?" "He is the pastor of the Presby- "c' n-rian church down in the next block." said a stationer. "Every bookseller in 'he neighborhood is making a spe-ciilty spe-ciilty of his book. That is the usual v.ay of doing things when a clergyman '.rings out a new book! Anybody else |