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        BAPTISM IN DEEP WATER

   A Baptist minister who prac-
ticed immersion was asked, ac-
cording to "Judge," to tell what
was his most awkward exper-
ience.  He said: "One Sunday
afternoon I was to have an im-
mersion in the river on the out-
skirts of town.  A great crowd
had assembled.  There were two
candidates for baptism.  One 
was an extraordinary tall woman,
coming almost up to my own six-
feet-three in height.  The other 
was a little runt of a man hardly
five feet tall When it came
time for the ceremony I took the
towering lady by the arm, intend-
ing to immerse her first, and told
the little man to follow us.  The
lady and I had gone into the
water until it was about up to
our waists, when I heard very im-
proper tittering among the spec-
tators.  Looking back to discover
the cause of htis untimely levity,
I beheld the little candidate
for baptism coming along-----
swimming!"
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   Nearly everybody believes that
if he should fail at his present
business he could take up writing
and make a good living at it with-
out any work worth mentioning.
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   Take two lumps of sugar.  On
top of one place granulated and
on the top of the other one place
pulverized sugar.  Dip both
lumps in coffee at the same time
and notice how much longer the
"fine mulch" made on the second
lump holds the liquid in.  So with
the soil water that soaks up in the
corn land; a fine mulch con-
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