A Henry "Ward Beecher story which may or may not appeal to baldheads: I remember as clearly cs if it were vesterday (says the author of a recent, books of "Notes and Anecdotes") the riofcle of amusement which passed over his (Beecher's) great congregation one [sundry morning when, after a eloquent passage, he paused a moment, and saying that his words were ol personal. not general, application, added. •'The churches, ot the land are sprinkled all over with bald-headed old sinners, whose hair has been worn olf by the friction of countless sermons that have been aimed at tbein and have danced off and hit the man in the pew "behind."
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18545, 21 November 1925, Page 13
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