had had much trouble.

"How beautiful!" said a visitor to one of the deacons, "and how
appropriate for a farewell sermon!"

"Think so?" said the deacon gruffly.

"Why, yes. What better text could he find than 'In My Father's house
are many mansions.... I go to prepare a place for you.' By the way,
where is he going?"

The deacon smiled sourly as he answered: "He becomes chaplain of the
State penitentiary."

While a certain Scottish minister was conducting religious services in
an asylum for the insane, one of the inmates cried out wildly:

"I say, have we got to listen to this?"

The minister, surprised and confused, turned to the keeper and said:

"Shall I stop speaking?"

The keeper replied:

"No, no; gang along, gang along; that will not happen again. That man
only has one lucid moment every seven years."

Mr. Bryan says his next statement will be divided into three parts.
Instinctively we recall the announcement of a mountaineer preacher who
said to his flock:

"Brethren, I hev decided t' divide my sermon in three parts. Th' fust
part I'll understand an' you won't. Th' second part you'll understand
an' I won't. Th' third part nobody'll understand."

The teacher had asked, "Why did David say he would rather be a
door-keeper in the house of the Lord?"

"Because," answered a boy, "he could then walk outside while the
sermon was being preached."

"It was hot last Sunday night when the preacher started his Sunday
sermon," says the _Fort Scott (Kan.) Tribune_.

"He observed that his sermon would be brief; that to be immortal, it
is not necessary to be eternal."

The critical instinct grows by what it is fed upon. No matter how well
you do, some people are never satisfied and this is especially true in
families.

A Philadelphia divine was entertaining a couple of clergymen from New
York at dinner. The guests spoke in praise of a sermon their host had
delivered the Sunday before. The host's son was at the table, and one
of the New York clergymen said to him: "My lad, what did you think of
your father's sermon?"

"I guess it was very good," said the boy, "but there were three mighty
fine places where he could have stopped."

_See also_ Clergy.

PREJUDICE

Prejudice means "judging before" you have the facts. Never judge till
after you have the facts. Nothing is so utterly devoid of reason as a
passionate hatred of any race or class. All men are much the same when
you come to