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Good Stories Reprinted from the Ladies' Home Journal of Philadelphia

Why He Would Like It

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The little son of the minister, at Sunday dinner, said at the family table:

“Father, I wish I could be ‘a doorkeeper in the House of the Lord,’ as you said this morning.”

“Indeed,” said the minister-father, with a pleased look across the table at his wife.

“Yes,” said the boy, “for then I wouldn’t have to listen to the sermon.”

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