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The Adventist would have been justified in renouncing his religion and joining the Democratic party. It is sad, indeed. The papers all around here are saying that I have a new Sunday Lecture, with a bad title. The way of it was this. A man in a neighboring city telegraphed me to know if I would deliver a "Sunday Lecture," and telling me to choose my subject, and answer by telegraph.
And what could the Adventist have thought when he saw a message thrown out of the balloon, and went with trembling limbs and beating heart to pick it up, believing that it was a command from on high to sinners, and found that it was nothing but a hand bill for a Chicago hand-me-down clothing store.
Humphreys's friend in Louisville was just the thing. When pressed by some of her neighbors who had not received the Adventist gospel, to tell on what principle she could justify her sale of the farm at all, she answered that if the farm would not be of any account after the end of the world, neither would the money. Mr.
"I hope you don't think all this debating will end after you're gone?... Oh, no, for the next week or so the boys will continue shooting their mouths off ... the Baptist will fight the Methodist, and both will join against the Seventh Day Adventist ... and the one Catholic will be assailed by all hands....
"All right," said Hal, "I'm willing." "I'll see you about it to-morrow," said the other. "I ain't got the paper with me. By the way, what's your religion?" "Seventh Day Adventist." "Holy Christ! What's that?" "It don't hurt," said Hal. "I ain't supposed to work on Saturdays, but I do." "Well, don't you go preachin' it round here.
"Hark! you may hear your Saviour coming." It was a well-known Adventist hymn which had often roused the hearts of thousands when rung out to the air in the camp meetings of the northern States; but to those who heard it first to-night it came as the revelation of a new reality.
"Oh, that reminds me," broke in Dic, "my Uncle Joe Bright is coming to visit us soon. Talk about talkers! He is a Seventh Day Adventist preacher, and his conversation no, I'll say his talk, for that's all it is reminds me of time." "How is that?" queried Rita. "It's made up of small particles, goes on forever, and is all seconds. He says nothing first hand. His talk is all borrowed."
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