SPINNING IT OUT.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1027, 30 March 1894, Page 7

SPINNING IT OUT.

« t . An eminent New York divine, in the course of an address at a fraternity dinner recently, told this story, says Harper's Magazine : — ' I met a Brooklyn friend of mine a few days ago, and, as he appeared to, be feeling : in an. unsually exuberant frame of mind, I asked him why. He replied that he was happy because he had i done three good actions the day beforp. He had met a poor woman on the street. The. woman had a sickly-looking j child in her arms, and she was weeping : because she was convinced that her child was dying and unbaptised. ' " But," said the Brooklyn man, 44 why do you not have the child baptised r '"Because I have no money and the fee for baptism is one dollar,' said the woman. ' Whereupon the good Samaritan handed her a ten dollar bill, gave her his addi'ess so that she could bring back the change — which she did return — and went her. way. ~-■ 4 "That is one good action," said the ■ ; doctor. " Now for the other two." ! ' 4t Oh," observed the Brooklyn man, 'they were all three in one. First, I relieved the sorrows of a weeping woman ; second, I assured the child of eternal salvation, and third "■ Here 1 he hesitated. : 4 " Yes V said the doctor. 4 What was the third V ~ '< l " Well,' said the Brooklyn man, ! 4 the third was that I got rid of that 10 1 dollor bill I had been carrying for 1 more th^m a year. 1 "