LAYING LOW FOR HIM.
Every night he visited the revival meeting at the First Presbyterian Church, and looked intently up at the rostrum as' if drinking in every word that the Evangelist said. Friday night the minister, seeing his earnestness, said to him : "My friend, are you a Christian?" ,'',|fo, sir,", ,was the reply. ' * Yoir'seem :to |le^always looking towards the "rostrum with great earnestness. I hope an interest has Jieen wakened in your heart." ' "I am just waiting to see what the man up 'there : in the blonde moustache and projecting' teeth will decide to do." " Ahj my deafsir," said the pastor, { ,' you must not .wait: for | your Mends to come. You must act fonyourself." "Oh, that ain't it,. You ssete t that man always gets religion' , at. eyery revival, and I am just'fayin' low for him to come forward and say that he has had a change of heart, so that I can stand at the^door.when he comesjout^anxLask him, to pay me. that 10 dollars. he. owes me before he has.a chance to backslide." The minister -turned sadly away. — Toledo .Democrat. \ ' ' . " '
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Otago Witness, Issue 1342, 18 August 1877, Page 21
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182LAYING LOW FOR HIM. Otago Witness, Issue 1342, 18 August 1877, Page 21
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