PREDESTINATION.
'Do you believe in predestination?' asked the captain of a Mississippi steamar of a Calvinistic clergyman who happened to be travelling with him. •Certainly.' . • And you believe that what is to be will be? 1 •Yes.' V • Well, I am glad to hear it.' •Why? 7 •Because I intend to pass that boat ahead in fifteen consecutive minutes, if there be any virtue in pine knots and loaded safety valves. So don't be alarmed, for if the boilers ain't going to burs'; they won't.' Here the divine looked very much like backing out, when the captain remarked: — • I thought you believed in predestination?' -' So I do,' replied the clergyman,' but I prefer being a little nearer the stern when it takes place.'
A gentleman writing a letter at an hotel noticed that an Irishman, standing near, was reading what be was writing, so he concluded his epistle with the following words :— * I would say more, but there is a tall, squint-eyed Irishman looking over my shoulder and reading every word I write.' 1 Seoundthrel I' cried the excited Hibernian. 'I am not squint eyed, and I haven't read a word that you have written I'
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Thames Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 7035, 9 November 1891, Page 1
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196PREDESTINATION. Thames Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 7035, 9 November 1891, Page 1
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