Practical Christianity
Christianity is supposed to be a very impracticable and impossible thing these days, and anyone who left his fishing nets to follow the literal precepts or the New Testament would be regarded certainly as a fool an-i lunatic. We do not know about the fishing, but there is really some one who has left the hunting field in order, not indeed to follow the Scriptures himself, but to pay other people to read them. This is Lord Loign. who explained at a meeting of the War* iriekshire Scripture Kenders' Society that owing to depressed times he had given up hunting so as to continue his subscription, and ur^ed other country gentlemen to sell their hunters and give to the poor. How many will follow his example P
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 140, 6 May 1886, Page 3
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