Amos Boggs Judges Poor Sermon

1900

Mr. Amos Boggs had his own ideas as to what constituted a good sermon. When he was asked his opinion of the learned discourse given by a clergyman from the city, who was spending a few days in Shawville, he stroked his beard and replied:

"If there was anybody there that calc'lated to find out the ro'd to Heaven, they'd have been a mite disappointed, I reckon," he said, slowly; "but if they wanted to know how to get from Egypt to Jericho and back, they'd have found out. It jest depends."


Real Work Ethic

"When I have nothing to do I work," said Professor Max-Muller recently. A finer expression of the same thought comes from a humble old Scotchman, whose death is described in "Village Notes."

He was speaking his last homely words of advice. "Jock," said he, "when ye hae naething else to do ye may be aye sticking in a tree. It will growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping."