He Didn't Need it
A gentleman was conversing with an Indian minister whom he happened to meet on a railroad train. ' You have been preaching in the West for several years? ho enquired. 'Yes for the last 20 years/ replied the minister. 'You know/ continued the Eastern man, ' how we sometimes read of Ministers ih your country frequently having to go into the pulpit with revolver to use in maintaining order in a turbulent congregation. Is there anything in it?' c O, yes, I have known ministers do it, but I consider it entirely unnecessary.' ' That was always my idea too.' 'O, yes; yes, altogether unnecessary,' returned the preacher. ' Besides, it always seemed to me in a very poor taste for a minister of the gospel, preaching peace on earth and goodwill toward men, to go around tied to a' hip cannon. Yes, a gun is wholly uncalled for,' continued the good man, as he took the roll of sermons in his left hand and reached down with his right and extracted a 14-inch knife fromjhis boot-leg ; 'Yes, wholly uncalled for; give me this bowie in my boot-leg and a good pair of brass knuckles and a hymn-book in my coat-tail pocket, and I will agree to carry the gospel to any man that ever looked through a collar. The shooting-iron has had its day as a method of evangelisation.' — Peck's Sun.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 104, 3 April 1888, Page 3
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232He Didn't Need it Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 104, 3 April 1888, Page 3
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