AND THEN SOME!
In order to impress upon his congregation the length of eternity, a coloured preacher used the following illustration "If a sparrow, breddcrn, should take a drop of water from the Atlantic Ocean at Coney Island, and with this drop of water in its beak should hop a hop a day until it reached tho Pacific Ocean at San Francisco, and when it got there should let the drop fall into tho Pacific, and when this was done should turn around and hop a hop a day all tho way back to Coney Island, niul get another drop and do the same thing over, and keep on doiii,i this very same tiling until it had carried the whole Atlantic Ocean over into the Pacific, it would then only bo oarbr mornlnß ia fiternita/'
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1629, 21 December 1912, Page 22
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135AND THEN SOME! Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1629, 21 December 1912, Page 22
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