Devoted to the Propagation and Defense of New Testament Christianity
VOLUME 9
April 17, 1958
NUMBER 49, PAGE 13b

A Mouthful!

Derrel Starling, Phoenix, Arizona

On page 15 of the Annals of Methodism in Missouri by W. S. Woodard, published in 1893, there is an interesting sketch of a Methodist preacher by the name of William C. Stribling.

On one occasion a young man was smoking in the presence of Stribling and he turned to the young man and said, "Sir, the deleterious effluvia emanating from your tobacconistic reservoir so obfuscates my ocular optics, and so distributes its infectious particles with the atmospheric fluidity surrounding me, that my respirable apparatus must shortly be obtunded, unless through the abundant suavity of your pre-eminent politeness, you will disembogue that luminous tube from the pungent stimulating and sternatory ingredient which replenishes the rotundity of the vastness of its cavity."