The Sermon on Matrimony

Rev. G. H. Schnur, who for the past three years has ministered to the spiritual necessities of the little Lutheran church on Nineteenth Street, has resigned because his congregation would not permit him to choose a wife for himself. He selected for a helpmate a very good-looking and estimable young lady of his flock named Miss Nina Charles, but Rev. Mr. Schnur had already been selected as a son-in-law by one of the members of his congregation. When his engagement to Miss Charles was made public, the disappointed matron raised such a ferment at a church meeting that a resolution was introduced to the effect that the pastor had not shown due respect for the opinion of his people in one of the most important moments of life, and that in the interest of both, it was his resignation that was the only proper thing under the circumstances. The disturbers were unable to secure the necessary two-thirds to carry the resolution, but Mr. Schnur insisted on his resignation and urged his friends to vote for its acceptance. He will seek another vineyard.