10/18 He chose his text from Saint Matthew, Chapter vii., verses 26 and 27: "_And every one that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man which built his house upon the sand_; "_And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell; and great was the fall of it_." Taffy never followed his father's sermons closely. He would listen to a sentence or two, now and again, and then let his wits wander. The rain has come, the winds have blown and beaten on it; the foundations have sunk and it leans to leeward. |