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From: Yakima Herald-Republic
Date: 20050625
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Ralph Waldo Emerson once made a speech that a minister on the platform with him deeply disliked. The minister, in delivering the closing prayer, prayed, "We beseech thee, O Lord, to deliver us from ever hearing anymore such nonsense as we have just listened to."
When Emerson was asked afterward what he thought about the comment, he remarked, "The minister seems a very conscientious, plain- spoken gentleman." What a healthy minded response!
It may well have been that the minster was in a depressed mood and made this inappropiate prayer. It was Ian Maclaren who said, "Let us be kind to one ...
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