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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 21, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 36.

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Just Swimming.

In Scotland, the topic of a sermon or discourse of any kind is called by old-fashioned folks “its ground,” or, as they would say, “its grund.” An old woman, bustling into the kirk rather late, found the preacher had commenced, and opening her Bible, nudged her next neighbor with the inquiry, “What’s his grund?” “Oh,” rejoined the other, who happened to be a brother minister, and therefore a privileged critic, “he’s lost his grund long since, and he’s just swimming.”