"I will you a pleasent tale...
which has in it a touch of pathos. A man got religion, and asked the priest what
he must do to be worthy of his new estate. The priest said "imitate our father in heaven and learn to be like him" The man studied the bible diligently and thoroughly and understandingly and then with prayers for heavenly guidance ituted his imitation. He tricked his wife into falling downstairs and she broke her back and became paralytic for life; he betrayed his brother into the hands of a sharper; who robbed him of all of his all and landed him in the almshouse, he inocualted one son with hook worms, and another with the sleeping sickness, another with gonorrhea, he furnished on daughter with the scarlet fever and ushered her into her teens deaf, dumb and blind for life; and after helping a rascal seduce the remaining one, he closed the doors against her and she died in a brothel cursing him. then he reported to the priest, who said that was no way to imitate his father in heaven. The convert asked wherein he had failed, but the priest changed the subject and inquired what kind of weather he was having up his way........"
-Mark Twain |
