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Show Sate to Remain. The fact is not stated, but this little occurrence, reported by the New York Sun, must have taken place in the (rood old times when ministers were mora eloquent, or congregations more pa tient, than is the case at present. A stranger entered the meeting-house in the middle of the service, and took a seat in the back pew. Presently he whispered to the man at his &ide, evidently evi-dently 'one of the old members: 'XIow long has he been preaching?" "Thirty or forty years, I think," answered an-swered the elderly man. "I don't know i exactly." .. i -Til stay, then," said the stranger. ! "He must be nearly done." |