DP. STUART ON WHISTLING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1334, 6 September 1886, Page 2

DP. STUART ON WHISTLING.

Tue following anecdote regarding the worth/ and p ipuiar cl-rgymsn, Dr Stoart, of Ka 'X Church, Dunedin, to .given by “ Civis,” who writes ;—Some day" we shall have a volume cf Stuartana—anecdo es of the most popular minister in Otago, anecdotes authentic and mythic, collected and preserved by pious Knox Kirkers for the instruction of posterity. Towards which prospective collection I beg to contribute two or three stories, quite au haotic, received th-'e week : A few Sundays back the doct »r was “ expiunrlig,” as his wont is, duiinr the reading of the Word. He came t> the sentence, “I will hiss for them, and gather them.” “ Jhe word raid he, “ means} to make a whistling sound, to whistle, to call by wh-slling— ‘ I will whistle for them, and gather them ’ Ton all remember the line of the song—- ‘ 0 whistle and I’ll come to you my lad.’ ” Whether the doctor continued the quo-ta-im my informant does not say— Tho’ father and mother and ashouldgo mad, O whistle and I’il come to you, my lad I •• The congreguton cmiinuvd it, doubtless, with a comfortable luwa d sruse of nored laughter,