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Show ' HIS TURN TO CniTICI3E. Youngster Felt Called on to Manifest Disapproval of Prayer. Utlto John, who, nt the mature age of four, lun learned tho 1-ord'n l'mver, Is often prJllolsed, by bis. sister, two jcars older, for slight mistakes which ho rnnnot always avoid In offering the petition. A few Sundays Ago he was taken to church fur the llrst time When the monrent for llie praer ar rlu-d nnd the congregation bowed their luada Johns' mother-look tho )r.outlon lo whJer to hJm.Hmt lie inn Ik-jVW quirk 31asen" :liv oUil'Jaiul uhi wUbhsartlioiilnlsiiu. pray." . TbJsJirfvKBUJ John atvoniv nnd lili Uttln faeoi took on a looU ot ecrious nUcn,tlun, but, his iuuiIipm watchlutr lilni covt-rtly. snw his ux-presslon ux-presslon change presently to ono M surprise and disapproval A few mln tites mine, and he could stand It no longer. What could this man bo say IdkT 'ot n word of tho prayer did ho rccognlto as tho only formula ha hail ever heard called hy that name. "Why, niolhor," ho oxclalmed, In a tono jludlMd over nearly half ' tho churci, "do you hear? Ho Isn't say-log say-log It right at all!" V |