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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 13, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 24, No. 16.

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Religion Only Left Out

RELIGION ONLY LEFT OUT.—The Christian Inquirer says, that a certain gentleman was soliciting subscribers for the Inquirer, and he called on a certain farmer who refused to subscribe on the ground that he took so many papers for his family, that he needed no more. Mr. —— asked what papers he took? The farmer replied that he took a political paper, an agricultural paper, and a magazine of fashions. Mr. —— then answered very wisely, and very shrewdly, "It seems then that you must have agriculture, politics, and the fashions all represented in your family, but religiou you do not deem to be necessary." The farmer immediately subscribed.