BISHOP AS HUMORIST.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16988, 10 November 1920, Page 11

BISHOP AS HUMORIST.

! > j l)r Furse. who took charge of the | diocese of St. Albans six months ago (al'i*r 17 years as Bishop of Pretoria), i is acquiring lame as .a humorist. Of [ his own appointment to St. Alhnns by Mr 1,1 oyd Cleorge, tlio Bishop said: "[ 1 couldn't he!]) it. T was' simply thrown | at vou by a Baptist Prime Minister. and. as far as 1 am concerned, I've got , to sit on your chests for the rest of my natural. 'And it may be unpleasant for 1 all concerned." He would reform services for Young • People. "Can you expect," ho asked - the Lay Helpers' Association, "to arouse i any interest in a young chap who comes ' t.o church, and right at the beginning i of the service finds the clergyman, in a. - very parsonic voice—in about key Q • addressing him as a dearly beloved r brother, and then telling him to confess • his sins 0 That is too much for auv i* young person to stick. Then the lessons ? follow, and the young person may get a great chunk of the Book of Kings flung i at him." OLhcr inots by the Bishop on a recent) i tour wore: "If you writo me nbusivo f letters, for heaven's sake put stamps on il them. Nowadays one has to pay _-l<l — i- and it isn't worth it. ' "A Bishop b can't be got rid of he gets h drunk, or becomes bankrupt. I. hope s you will not get rid of me for the first cause, but vou mav for the second, un--0 less-you pay me better." "There is h only one thing worse than being _'re- - sne'e table," that is being 'superior.* ', Figure-heads mav have been all right t for old ships. They arc not a bit of 1 good in a church." f DAILY MEIvIOKAXHA —AWdncsdnv, Xov. 10. 1 AUCTIONS. v 11. Matron .n.d Co., al TattoreaH'o. at 8.-10-j Horses. ** c The more discriminating will appro* t ciate their Christmas portraits made by Claude Ring, Studio, Stewart Dawson's Buildings. Call 'phone .'30.>3 for an ap- ' pointment. Take e'evator _____