A Presiding elder of the Hnilcd Brethren Church was preaching in Minnesota, and was much annoyed by persons talking and laughing. Ho paused looked at the disturbers, and said: “I am always afraid to reprove those who misbehave in church. In the e...rly part of my m : uistry I made a great mistake As I was preaching, a young man who sat before me was constant! y langlr-ig talking, and making uncouth grimaces. I paused and ad a ministered a severe rebuke. After the close of the service, one of the official members came and said to me Brotheryon made a great mistake. That young man whom you reproved is an idiot.’ Since then I have always been afraid to reprove those who misbehave in church, lest I should repeat that miateke and reproveanotheridiot.” Dining the rest o'! that service at least there was good order.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 521, 12 April 1872, Page 1 (Supplement)
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