This Old House
Humor
Windows for Sermons
Stories And Humor For Inspired Preaching
Object:
Not all Senior Citizens are pessimists. Some are positive thinkers regardless of physical infirmities.
John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States of America, in his retirement was in conversation with a friend as they met on a Boston street.
"Well, how is John Quincy Adams today?" asked the friend.
Adams smiled and said, "Fine sir, fine! But this old tenement that John lives in is not so good. The underpinning is about to fall away. The thatch is all gone off the roof, and the windows are so dim John Quincy can hardly see out anymore. As a matter of fact, it wouldn't surprise me if before the winter's over he had to move out. But as for John Quincy Adams, he never was better ... never was better!"
What a marvelous expression of the real John Quincy Adams, not to be stopped by the "old house" he had inhabited.
Do you suppose this could have inspired the author of the popular song, "This Old House"?
John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States of America, in his retirement was in conversation with a friend as they met on a Boston street.
"Well, how is John Quincy Adams today?" asked the friend.
Adams smiled and said, "Fine sir, fine! But this old tenement that John lives in is not so good. The underpinning is about to fall away. The thatch is all gone off the roof, and the windows are so dim John Quincy can hardly see out anymore. As a matter of fact, it wouldn't surprise me if before the winter's over he had to move out. But as for John Quincy Adams, he never was better ... never was better!"
What a marvelous expression of the real John Quincy Adams, not to be stopped by the "old house" he had inhabited.
Do you suppose this could have inspired the author of the popular song, "This Old House"?
