A CLERGYMAN TURNING THE MANGLE.

Evening Star, Issue 3103, 29 January 1873, Page 3

A CLERGYMAN TURNING THE MANGLE.

A writer in the South London Press says : —“I have the greatest admiration for one Brixton clergyman, and this is based entirely upon a single circumstance. He stands higher in my estimation than any clergyman 1 know, and that because the other day he was seen turning a mangle. Not a dignified occupation, you will say. No ; but Christianity knows very little about dignity, and a great deal about duty, and more still about charity and loving-kindness. The mangling came about in this wise. The clergyman, going his visiting rounds, called on a poor woman who kept a mangle, and who was “at her wit’s end,’’ seeing that her husband was ill, and she could get no one to take a turn, “so that she might get her work home in time, so as not to lose her customers. ” The kindly clergyman listened to her tale, saw her difficulty, and said he supposed turning a mangle required no particular skill - could he do it ? The woman protested that such a thing was impossible ; but in spite of her remonstrances, the rev. gentleman insisted on trying his hand, and continued at the work till far into the night, until all the clothes were ready for delivery next morning. This was a true muscular Christian of the Apostolic type; and if ever a memorial window should be raised to him in his church, it should represent him in the mot glorious action of his ministry—turning the mangle.”