Two prominent senators, boyhood friends, were discussing how strict had been their early religious training and how they had departed from it in late years. Said A to B: "I don't believe you even remember the Lord's Prayer, do you?" B answered: "Oh, yes, I do; I'm not such a backslider as that." Then A said: "I'll bet a dollar you cannot say the Lord's Prayer straight through." B promptly declared that he would win that dollar and, after a moment's thoughtful hesitation, repeated slowly:
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.
"By Jove," said A, "here is your dollar; I didn't believe you could do it."
"We'd have more prayers answered," said Bishop Hoss, of Muskogee, "if we had more faith."
"Too many of us are like Willie. Willie, on a visit to his uncle's in the country, admired a fine colt.
"'Uncle, give me that colt, will you?' he asked.