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Show Building Up the Church. A Brooklyn preacher went away the other day for a vacation, and rather than have the church close, his wife took his place in the pulpit. It is said the same result followed that happened hap-pened in Texas when a preacher, after preaching two Sabbaths to empty benches, gave notice on the third Sunday Sun-day that on the succeeding Sunday . services would be as usual at 11 o'clock; that at 12 o'clock he would run his mare, Caliope, 500 yards against all comers for $1,000, and ride the mare himself. He won the race, and 7,000 people joined his church the next Sunday. |