Show GREELEY IN CHURCH he goes to slew but jet gires an accurate report of a sermon on one occasion I 1 went horace greeley to hear a discourse from the rev wm henry channing it was sunday morning and the topic announced was one in which ho felt a special inter eat mr channing was then in fact ministering to a congregation of which mr greeley was a prominent member it was in a ball on the west side of broad way above canal street where dr dewey had preached aforetime on the way thither mr greeley begged me to keep him awake we occupied a settee within six feet of the platform and right under the eye of the preacher I 1 tried to keep hiru awake by frequent duggings ings at his elbow and playing a by means soft tattoo upon his ribs but it was of no use he was aid nod ding through the whole discourse not a little to mr Chann ings ans no yance who observed my unsuccessful efforts to keep bis great auditor awake but now comes the wonderful part of my etory mr greeley and I 1 when the service was over went back to the tribune office together he sat down to his desk U once and made an abstract of mr Chann ings discourse filling somewhat less than a column which appeared in the irianne of the next morning mr channing was utterly amazed when he saw it and asked roe if it was possible mr greeley had made the report when I 1 told him that I 1 saw him while he was preparing it and could certify to the compositor in his own handwriting and that moreover I 1 had myself read the proof he expressed the greatest astonishment why said he 1 I could not myself have mado so accurate an abstract of my own discourse which though premeditated was extemporaneous ho has not only given the substance of eaid he has followed my line of thought and I 1 remembered not a little ofay language I 1 do not pretend to oner any explanation of this strange mental feat but I 1 am absolutely certain of the facts as I 1 have related them and what had the appearance of unqualified sleep was in reality a condition in which the mental faculties were awake and active oliver johnsont John in the christian reporter |