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Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 2, 1 November 1883, Page 13

Speaking of Mr. Beecher’s 70th birthday, an old New Yorker said :“ I like Beecher. He has done more to cool off Hades than any other man that ever lived.” A New Yorker would like any man who would do that.— Boston Post.

A minister of the name of Sparks, whose pastorate lay in the north, was the father of thirteen children. At the baptism of the thirteenth an aged brother divine, desirous to choose what seemed to him an appropriate description of the life of a man, called on the congregation to join in singing the fifth paraphrase, beginning with the line, " As sparks in quick succession rise." So unconscious was he that he could not understand the people's titter, until, when he descended from the pulpit, his pun was explained to him.