Around the tea-table . of glanders and bots on his unsophisticatedneighbor. We think that, as a minister is set upfor an example to his flock, he ought to have the I90 AROUND THE TEA-TABLE. best horse in the congregation. A minister is nomore sacred when riding behind a spavined andringboned nag than when whirling along after ahorse that can swallow a mile in The anniversary week in Boston closed by adisplay of flowers and fruits in Horticultural was appropriate that philanthropists and Chris-tians, hot from discussions of moral and religioustopics, should go in and take a bath o
Around the tea-table . of glanders and bots on his unsophisticatedneighbor. We think that, as a minister is set upfor an example to his flock, he ought to have the I90 AROUND THE TEA-TABLE. best horse in the congregation. A minister is nomore sacred when riding behind a spavined andringboned nag than when whirling along after ahorse that can swallow a mile in The anniversary week in Boston closed by adisplay of flowers and fruits in Horticultural was appropriate that philanthropists and Chris-tians, hot from discussions of moral and religioustopics, should go in and take a bath of rose leavesand geraniums. Indeed, I think the sweetest an-niversary of the week was that of these large rhododendron presided. Azaleas and ver-benas took part in the meeting. The Chinesehoneysuckle and clematis joined in the magnolia pronounced the benediction. Andwe went home praying for the time when the lilyof the valley shall be planted in every heart, andthe desert shall blossom as the CHAPTER XXVIII. JONAH VERSUS THE WHALE. UNBELIEVERS have often told us that thestory of the prophet swallowed by a greatfish was an absurdity. They say that, so long inthe stomach of the monster, the minister wouldhave been digested. We have no difficulty in thismatter. Jonah was a most unwilling guest of thewhale. He wanted to get out. However muchhe may have liked fish, he did not want it threetimes a day and all the time. So he kept up afidget, and a struggle, and a turning over, and hegave the whale no time to assimilate him. Theman knew that if he was ever to get out he mustbe in perpetual motion. We know men that areso lethargic they would have given the matter up,and lain down so quietly that in a few hours theywould have gone into flukes and fish bones, blow-holes and blubber. Now we see men all around us who have beenswallowed by monstrous misfortunes. Some ofthem sit down on a piece of whale-bone and 16 191 I92 AROUND THE TEA-TABLE. give up. They say:
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