"Mamma, Mr. Burgess said in his sermon that billions of
little creatures are sent into us to give us cholera, and typhoid,
and lockjaw, and more than a thousand other sicknesses and --
mamma, does He send them?"
"You know the lightning did come last week, mamma, and struck the
new church, and burnt it down. Was it to discipline the
church?"
(Wearily). "Oh, I suppose so."
"But it killed a hog that wasn't doing anything. Was it to
discipline the hog, mamma?"
Good old
mark twain.
