JEREMIAH'S PLACE.
A certain preacher, discursive and interminable, once took for his subject "The Prophets." Having dealt in order with each of the twelve minor prophets, he at length disposed of Malachi, when his audience, naturally supposing that he had finished, gave a sigh of relief. But to their unconcealed dismay, he took a Ions? breath nnd eontinned: "And now 1 will proceed to the major propiiets." He found enough material in Isaiah for a whole discourse, and then siuid : "What about Jeremiah? Where is Jeremiah's place?" At this point a man in the back of tho chapel rose. "Jeremiah," he siiia, "can have m^ place ; I'm going home." '
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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 142, 16 June 1906, Page 10
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109JEREMIAH'S PLACE. Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 142, 16 June 1906, Page 10
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