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Show SEKMOX DIB HIM GOOD. Churchgoer's Homely but Vr- Effective Comparison. Compari-son. The late Father McGoldrick of Dorchester, Mass., was one of the greatest pulpit orators in the archdiocese and always took delight in ecmg what effect his. sermons had upon the lowly members rf. the congregation. One Sunday, while leaving St. Peter's church, where he had been statipnc.i many j years, he met a parishioners who, touching his hat I to the reverend gentleman, said: "That was a beautiful sermon you preached to- j dav, father. It did me a power of good." j '"I'm glad of that," responded the clergyman, i 'Can you tell nie what particularly struck you? What was the main point 1" "Well er I don't rightly remember I don't just exactly know. I ah ah what's the use; sure, I don't remember an individual word of it. Sorra j a bit of me knovs what it was at all, at all." j "And yet," said Father McGoldrick,' with a j smile, "you say it did you a power of good." "So it did, Father; I'll stick to that" '"Xow, tell me how." "Well, Father, now look here. There's my Sunday Sun-day shirt that my wife is after washing, and clean and wdiite it is by reason of all the water and soap that's gone through it. But not a drop of ater or soap or blue has stayed in it, d'ye sec 2 And it's, the same way with me an' the sermon. It's all run through me an' dried out, but all the same, like my Sunday shirt, I'm better and cleaner for it." |