A Prayer Tough to Understand

Humor, 1910

Dr. Hilary Little Laycock of Wheeling, at the reccut diocesan convention said of a certain resolution:
"It was, perhaps, unintelligible, like the Wheeling man's prayer.
"This man, praying in meeting for a brother who lay very ill, cried:
"'O Lord! restore unto us our brother, if it doth not interfere with Thy perquisites.'
"The situation was saved by a deacon who shouted:
"'Hallelujah, the Lord knows what that means!'"

--The Des Moines News, Des Moines, Iowa, February 13, 1910, page 10.