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Show NEW USES FOR HYMN BOOKS. Pastor's Rrbuke Had Little Effect on One of His Congregation. "I made a few calls tho other day," raid the pastor of nn uptown church to his congregation, "and In one of the houses 1 snw a strange thing. What do ou think? One nf the church hymn books, tho property of thW church, had been carried home, am! was placed under the leg of a tablt to lengthen It out, 1 remonstrated it this menial use of hymn books. Apologies nnd blushes were profuse. Now. I am not scolding about this, but hymn books cost this church money, and If any of yon have "tables too short In tho legs please put a newspaper under them, or a piece o. wood. If you do this we won't lave to send out nnd buy another hundred hymn books, ns we did lst week." The pastor hnd no soonvr ended hesfj remarks than n girl sitting nl-mi's nl-mi's under his nose rahnl opened cut n hymn book, placed It between her hack and the back of the pew nnd settled comfort-till down to listen to tho sermon. New York Pre. Some Famous Sayings. From Dryden comes "through thick nnd thin" and "none hut the brave deserve the fair." Nathaniel I.eo an Ktigllsh dramatist of tho seventeenth century, wrote "when Greeks Jojned Greeks, then was a tttg-of-war" our modern "a caso of Greek meet Greek," Shakespeare, of course, has showered the moderns with household phrases. Matthew Prior of tho seventeenth century pnssed down to us "of two evils I have chosen tho least"; Ilyron gives us "as clear as a whistle"; Goldsmith, Gold-smith, "ask rue no questions nnd I'll tell you no libs," und Cowper "not much tho worso for wenr." Selling a bargain" and "fast nnd loose" comes from "Love's Labor Uist," nnd Pope's prologue to "Satires" gives "go snacks." "As good as a play" originated with Kin-: "harlcR whon In parliament atton the discussion of a dlvorc bill, nnd Cowper exclaimed, exclaim-ed, "Ood mnde the country and man made the town." |