EFFECTS OF A GOOD SERMON.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 76, 15 March 1879, Page 3

EFFECTS OF A GOOD SERMON.

The following conversation between a friend and his farm servant illustrates the remark that an Irishman is rarely at a loss a reply or an excuse. " That was a good sermon, was it not. that we bail last Sunday ?" said the gentleman. " Truo for you, yer honour, an iligant one ! It done me a power of good iutirely." " I'm glad of that. Can you tell me what particularly struck you ? What was it about ?" "Oh, well," scratching bis head, "I don't rightly—not just exactly know. I —a—l— A' where s the use in telling lies ? Sure I don't remember one single 'dividual word of it, good or bad. Sorra a bit of me knows what it was about at all." " And yet you say it did you a power of food !"• "Sc it did, sir. I'll stick to that." " I don't see how." " Well, now, yer honour, look here. There's my shirt ihut the wil'o is after washing; ami clean ;ind white it is, by reason of all tho water and the snap and fnc starch that's gone through it. ' But not a drop of 'em all—water, or soap, oi starch, or blue, has stayed in, d'ye see. And that's just the same with uic and that sermon. It's run through me, yer honour, an' it'-* dried out of me ; but all the same, just like my Sunday shirt, Via tin. better and the clearer after it." There was more philosophy than he was aware of in the quaint reasoning of the man. An impression for good or evil is often left upon the mind, and hears fruit, when what has caused the influence has passed away from our memories.— Chambers's Journal.