What Did Paul Shy?—Many
years ago, there lived in Virginia
a Baptist preacher, named B.
Though uneducated, he was a
sound thinker and an eloquent
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speaker, and no minister had
a
more devoted flock. Lt was the
custom, during inclement seasons,
to hold meeting' at the resiliences
of members, mid once or
twice
during the winter at the house of
the preacher. For many years it
was observed that B. neither
preached nor conducted the meet-
ine when
old at his house, but
secured the services of a neigh
boring minister. He was often.
pressed
out sue
spouse
some 0
lowing:
for an explanation witk-
:ess; but, finally, in re-
to the importunities oi
floc!
A the fol-
“When I was younger than
now—in fact, not long after the
commencement of my ministra
tion—I held a meeting at my own
house. It being customary for
many of the congregation to re
main for dinner, Mrs. B. sent our
negro boy, Tim, to
Paul’s for some butter
turned, and located
standing' on' me foot at
neighbor
Tim re-
himself,
a time, in
the outskirts of the congregation.
Being well warmed up in my ser
mon, thinking neither of Tim nor
his errand, but only on the most
successful mode of pressing my
strongest argil me'fit, L demanded
with all the energy in my power,
bind what did Paul say
Tim, at the top of has little
voice, exclaimed, as Tim only
could have done, “He said you
couldn’t get any more butter till
you paid for what you’d got!”
This brought down the house,
and cut short one of the finest
efforts of my early ministry.
Since then, I have kept my preach
ing disconnected from my domes-
tic affairs.
A Columbia, Pa
while preaching his
Sunday evening, perceived a
young man and woman under the
gallery in the act of kissing each
other behind a hymn book, and
did not lose his tempei
not flv into
unseemly
and call upon the sexton
IIe did
rage,
;o rush
up t’ne aisle and disband the
rioters. Ko ! he remaind calm.
He beamed mildly at
der
spectacle
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