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Show HAO HURT THE GOSPEL. How Small Boy Explains Result of Falling Downstslre. He Is a small boy, aged 5, and lives with bis parents on the second floor of the bouao. Tho anxious woman lives on the Drat floor, and she Is anxious because every time the small boy ran steal out of the room upstairs whin tie mother Is not looking, he mnkoaitralRht for the banisters, snd down kern ho slides pell mell. It grcit Wmo. for If he does not make the mott of hla opportunity he may loae It, And tho anxious woman Is frlgktciMl. Sho waa so much frightened fright-ened tlw other day that she apuko to tho tmil boy. "John Kmllh," she auld the small boy's iuiiio Is not John Smith, but that wU do as well as another "Jobs Snlth, If you don't stop sliding down tboa banisters you will hurt yourarlf.ua sure aa Cospcl.' It rim only a few mornings sttor when tot anxious woman heard a tbumplni, bounding sound In the front bill rumplty, dump, dump, dump, as If a heavy body were rolling downataln. The expected had happened, hap-pened, Mil aa, with hor face very white, sin opened the door, there was John Smith picking himself up stimy. He was sot crj'lnr., for ho Is old, or Kin failles' iJoi1iibV,- n.lr""hViio if be Is caught disobeying orders. Ha drew dtwn the corners of his mouth a llltls, bowevcr, as, regaining bis equilibrium, be remarked seriously: "WeU, I guess I bavo hurt the Gospel Gos-pel thli time.' |