LUDICIROUS SCENE IN A PULPIT.

Evening Star, Issue 3677, 4 December 1874, Page 3

LUDICIROUS SCENE IN A PULPIT.

A South German paper relates the following :—ln a Bavarian town of the meat pronounc’d Catholic orthodoxy, the priest preached lately against the Old Catholics, and related such horrible th nes about them that his pious hearers were it' rally horror di (’ld Catholic impi, ties. t last thp poacher cried out—“ The Old Catholics are so vile that tjigy will be ail cast into tbe pit, and if what I tell is not true, may ti c devil take me now on tbe snot.” His excite ment was terrible, and he so struck th< cushion that the book fc 1 from it. Not far from the pulpit there sut an American who had a negro servant with him. to whom he beckon* d to tak' the honk up to the priest, who perhaps had never M en one of ti o-re son* of Ha in his life. The negro at one obeyed, and as he mounted tbe lowest of the pulpit steps the clergyman r peated his wish that the < evil might come and take him, if what he had said against tne Old Catholics was not b ne. Although the net; o went very softly, the preacher heard hi* footgtej hj, an I turn ng round, saw a black object sohmnly, steadily, and sur-ly a-preaching him Hp looked at him with ter or, and be.that he woujd tl\e next jnstan,t potlafred by bis elwtamc mkjeaty, he erfed

' v ut wrb trembling voice—“lt is sifter sill 0')8"ible that there mav be good people axi ug the *>d Catholics.” '’u'liing, ib ■< round to sc ■ if the object - , bad d suripeared he saw it still steadily approaching. The persuiration burst out on his brow, and, fall ofdesp dr, he called out—“ There are even many good people among the f *ld (,’atho ica.” Thinking (h.t this would suffice. be turned roimd.hut what was his horror to find that the object was close at hand. Imagining himself in the very grasp lof Beelzebub, turning partly to the negro, and partly to the con” gregation, he cried out—“ May the devil come and take me, if all the Old Catholics are not better than we are.” The Iterrified priest fainted from fright, and it was only after some time that he recovered..— Globe ’