QUEER SERMONS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 122, 17 December 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

QUEER SERMONS.

A preacher once took the exploits of Jack Sheppard as a text, and preached an excellent sermon. Every schoolboy knows how the notorious Jack picked the lock of his fetters with a nail, burst them asunder, climbed a chim- ( noy, wrenched out an irja br»r, got through a strong door in a dark passage, climbed on the leaus, 4, xcd a blanket to the wall w.tli a ypik-j lie stole from the prison cnaptil, descended on top of a turner's shop, passed down the stairs, and so into the street. Now for the application. "Oh, that we were all like Jack Sheppard I" exclaimed the preacher. " Let nie exhort you to open the locks of your Heart with the nail of repentence, to burst asunder the fetters of your beloved sins, to mount the chimney of hope, to take away with you the bar of good resolutions, break through the stone wall of despair, raise yourselves to the leads of divine mediation, fix the blanket of faith on the spike of the church, let yourself descend the stair of humility. So you shall come to the door of deliverance from the prison of iniquity." Another preacher took as his text, '• When the devils were come out they went into a herd of swine," and proceeded to unfold jt thus, "Brethren, the devils verify three proverbs: One, the devil will go for small game rather than none. All the devils begged to go into the swine. Two, Needfc must when the devils drives. The whole herd ran violently. Three, the devil brings his hogs to a fine market. The whole herd han down a steep placo into the sea and were dfowned, and brethren, if you can't apply these things for yourself, nothing I could say would help you. Amen."