Unmuzzle the Ox: A Sermon (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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A farmer had three sons and a gypsy. Who professed to read fortunes, said to him that one of his sons would be a murderer. Another a thief. And the third a beggar. This greatly distressed the good man, and after payment ofa considerable sum the gypsy agreed to Show him a way out of the difficulty. Make your first son,' he said. 'a doctor. And he can kill as he likes; make your second a lawyer, and he can take what he likes; make the third a minister, and he must be a beggar all his days} I leave the doctors and the lawyers to arrange their part of the story as they please; but only the other day, in going into a bazaar. And asking if I had to pay. I was answered: Oh. Ministers have always to beg their way. So you may go in free. Indeed. Have we not earned. In the prosecution of this very work. The following degree: A sturdy beggar.

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