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Show CHANGE SPOILED THE EFFECT. J Minister's Unfortunate Alteration cf i Biblical Phraseology. William Dean Howells. at one of ' his bunday afternoon receptions, was j talking about the slight change of j phrase that may suffice to make an i impressive thing ridiculous. ' ! "I remember a sermon that I i heard," be said, "in my boyhood, in I Martin's Ferry, the quaint Ohio town, j It was a sermon about Judas, and i the minister, after reading to us how j Judas betrayed the Master for thirty pieces of silver, added, 'Thirty pieces of silver, dear friends, is $1S in our money.' . And then he went on heatedly: heat-edly: -"'Yes, Judas betrayed the Master; he prostituted that holy symbol, the kiss, for the small sum of $18.'. "The change of phrase was slight," Mr. Howells concluded, "but somehow It sufficed to make everybody smile." |