SHORT MEMORIES.
A minister, one Sabbath, was accosted by a man, who said: “Sir, have you seen a family going along here travelling?” “What sort of family were they?” said the godly man. “Oh, they had a cart.” “Yes,” said the minister. “Were they a family with short memories?” “I don’t know much about that,” said the young man, “what do you mean?” “Why,” replied the minister, “I thought they must be, for it is written, ‘Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy,’ and they seem to have forgotten it.”
HARD THINGS IN THE BIBLE.
Rev. Rowland Hill, combating the doctrine of priestcraft, that the common people should not be trusted with the Bible, because there are in it things hard to be understood, said: “A boy came up to his father, crying, ‘I am very hungry; do please give me some meat.’ ‘No, my dear son, for there are hard bones in it, and you cannot eat the bones.'”