Anecdote of Rev. Albert Barnes

The following anecdote is told of this gentleman. Being some time (as younger men might be) inclined to sleep a little during the sermon, a friend who was with him in his pew one Sunday lately, having joked him on his having nodded now and then, Barnes insisted that he had been awake all the time. "Well, then," said his friend, "can you tell me what the sermon was about?"

"Yes, I can," he answered, "it was about an hour and a half too long!"