A FREE GOSPEL. —The Louisville Examiner tells a story of a church member who had always been more remarkable for opening his mouth to say amen than opening his purse. He had, on one occasion, taken his usual place near the preacher’s stand, and was making his response with great admiration. After a burst of burning eloquence from the preacher he clasped his hands and cried out in a kind of ecstasy: "Yes thank God! I have been a Methodist for twenty-five years and it hasn’t cost me twenty-five cents!" "Bless your stingy soul!" was the preacher’s emphatic reply.

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