“Yes, I’m going. Offended—I? I’m going round to see all our ladies, every single one of them!”
“And tell them?—”
The minister’s wife held her breath for the answer. One may be very bold, but it sometimes means a great deal to offend “the ladies.”
“And tell them,” said the caller, gathering her wraps about her, “that beautiful ‘other side!’”
“Oh!” breathed the minister’s wife gratefully. “And tell them, won’t you, that there always is another side, always, always! And it is our Christian business to try and find it.”—Anna Burnham Bryant, Zion’s Herald.
(2280)
OTHERS, CONSIDERATION FOR
Among the regular announcements printed each week in the calendar of the Temple Baptist Church, Los Angeles, Cal., when the Rev. Robert J. Burdette was pastor, was the following:
Out of Christian consideration for others, the women will please remove their hats before the beginning of the sermon.
There was general conformity with a request so courteous and so Christian. In a large audience of several thousand there will, of course, be occasional transgressors. When the number of transgressors was exasperatingly large, the startled ears of the offenders were in danger of being greeted with a pronunciamento from the pastor, ordinarily the gentlest of men, usually in this spoken form: