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Show PARTING 8HAFT A WITTY ONE. Expelled Preacher at Least Left a 8tlng Behind Him. Rev. John R. demons, for about 30 years following the close of tho civil war, traveled back, and forth through tho north middle states preaching the gospel wherever he could And a crowd of listeners. His doctrine was Independent, Inde-pendent, his manner supercilious and his discourses both sarcastic and witty. The different sects aftor enduring en-during his extremely radical and fanatical sermons for a long time, at last closed the doors of their churches against him and thereafter he was forced to preach wherever he could. Once he turned up at a basket meeting meet-ing In northern Ohio just as the services ser-vices were closed for the noonday feast. When the people, seated around on the grass, were busily engaged with the contents of their baskets, he mounted the Improvised pulpit and began be-gan to rfpeak to the hungry members. His denouncement, on this occasion, of all churcheAand their creeds was unusually severe and the committee at once ordered him from the grounds. This order the Rev. demons utterly Ignored, whereupon four stalwart members gathered him up and mado a bee line for the gates. He continued his dlscdurse unchecked un-checked until at the outskirts of tho crowd when he shouted lustily back: "The Lord rode Into Jerusalem upon an ass, but I'm riding toward the new Jerusalem upon four." Illustrated Illus-trated Sunday Magazine. |