Friday, June 5, 2009

Preforeordestination

This week's Friday Funny comes from Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Chap. XVIII) and could be subtitled "Huck Finn Visits a Presbyterian Church."

Next Sunday we all went to church, about three mile, everybody a-horseback. The men took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between their knees or stood them handy against the wall. The Shepherdsons done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching -- all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a good ser- mon, and they all talked it over going home, and had such a powerful lot to say about faith and good works and free grace and preforeordestination, and I don't know what all, that it did seem to me to be one of the roughest Sundays I had run across yet.

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