Whittlings — Sentence Sermons & Bits of Wit

1917

By Rev. L. R. Akers

The sure sign of the little man is the big head.

Some people think obscurity is synonymous with profundity.

The modern church prefers a live wire to an inflated tire.

"Talk is cheap," we have heard, but it all depends upon who talks.

Oftentimes a cheerful hello! Is the best dispeller of a tearful woe.

Six-syllabled words are too often the exhaust of a one-cylinder man.

The newest thing in some churches would be a sermon on the old gospel.

To keep from being a "dead one" while alive is a full-grown man's job.

Continual straining after the new is often an effective way of emptying the pew.

There's no use to look like a saint on Sunday if you go out and act like a sinner on Monday.

The D. D. degree may loom large on earth, but the S. S. degree (Seeker of Souls) is the only one recognized in the University of the Skies.