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Temuka Leader, Issue 286, 4 September 1880, Page 2

“ There used to be an old coloured sister in the borough of Franklin, Pa., ” the tall thin passenger says, “ who was very unctuous iu ‘ pra’r, and one time during a revival season she got down on her knees, waved her hands in the air and shouted : ‘ Come down O sperrit of • the Mahster; come down. O good Lord, come right down thru de roof,, an I’ll pay for de shingles ! ’ ‘I remember, said the. sad passenger, “ the good brother in Greenburg, who was suddenly called on to lead in prayer at some meeting and opened his petition saying : ‘ Unaccustomed as we are to public speaking, O Lord, and being entirely unprepared, we will still endeavour to make a few rambling remarks.’” " And the Kansas preacher.” the man on the wood bou said, " that noble Prentis teUs about who refered in his prayer to the pohticalcondition of the country during a very canvass, and added . ‘ For the particulars ana. details cf which, O Lord, we refer Thee to the. columns of the morning papers. ”*