A Sermon Exchange

The latest enterprise which we hear announced in the young and enterprising west is the "Sermón exchange," of Chicago. According to popular belief the practice of clergyrnen has been to write sermons untü they had filled a barrel. Then the barrel would be turned upside down and the sermons all preached over again. Where a minister remained in a church a great many years tho congregation would af ter awhile begin to know when the barrel was turned.Some sermons were looked f orward to with much interest and others with more or less dismay. The Sermón exchange is to do away with all of this. It is no longer necessary to preach a sermón over a second time. The preacher can take an oíd sermón and tia twenty-five cents to it. This he sends to the exchange and receives one written by some one else byjreturn mail, or if he has no sermón to