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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 22, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 27, No. 25.

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DEAN SWIFT was once traveling through one of the rural parishes, some leagues from London, and introducing himself to a parson as a member of the same profession, was invited to partake of his fraternal hospitalities. The Dean consented, and accompanied the parson to his church the next morning. And there the Dean had the satisfaction of hearing one of his own sermons preached by an ignorant minister without a word of acknowledgement. When the service was over, the Dean asked the preacher how long it took him to write such a sermon. 'Oh,' said the minister, 'I wrote that sermon in about two hours.' 'Did you, indeed?' said the Dean, in reply. 'Why, it took me over two months to write that very sermon.'