Wilt) AHT Thou?—A few Sundays ago as Mr. Ward Beecher, the American preacher, was about commencing his sermon, a stout fatherly-looking man was endeavoring to make his way tliDUgh the crowd, to get withm hearing distance of the distinguished orator. At that moment, Mr. Beecher's voice rang out the words of the text " Who art thou ?" " Who art thou ?" again cried out the dramatic preacher. The stout party, thinking himself in the wrong, perhaps, by pressing forward, and believing himself to bo personally addressed, startled the brethren and nonplussed their reverend chieftain by sedately replying—l'm a pig merchant from Chicago, sir. I hope you ain't mad. There arn't nary chair, or else I'd a sot down. Plymouth church didn't recover its serenity for teu minutes.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 123, 7 July 1871, Page 5
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125Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 123, 7 July 1871, Page 5
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