This incident is told by Dr. R. F. Horton in the _Christian Endeavor
World_:
I had been addressing a large midday congregation in Leeds,
and a deep seriousness pervaded the atmosphere. The closing
hymn appointed began, “Sin-sick and Sorrow-laden”; and by
some inconceivable oddity of my own mind I gave it out, quite
deliberately and distinctly, “Seasick and Sorrow-laden.” I
perceived what I had done in a second. I literally trembled, for
it was impossible to recall the slip without calling attention
to it. I feared that there would be an awful titter, or even an
explosion of laughter. Wonderful to say, it was as if no one but
myself noticed the blunder, and I was awed into gravity, not
only by the occasion, but by my fear of what might happen.
(265)
=Body, Frailty of=--See HOUSE, THE MORTAL.