A New Way to Collect Pew.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 52, 18 October 1890, Page 4

A New Way to Collect Pew.

* — T7-; v A co« respondent kindly sends us "(Lytteituu Times) the following: — A Scotch paper says it has Leon supplied with a pa tern of church seatrent slip, which is quite a novelty in : 'its way ; printed in skeleton form, it ; runs as follows :—-" To sitting due at Whitsunday, £— . To sittings due at Martinmas,^ £—>.—— Collector for ■ " : Deacon's Court. Psalm xciy., v. B,' 'Turning to the passage referred to, the defaulting seat- holder is -met with the somewhat alarming interrogation : ~^ u Understand, ye brutish ainoag the people, and jef pols, when will ye be wise." Though" V. seat- rent collectors^ like others, ' may sometimes be provoked to use vernacular more forcible than polite,- we can hardly believe that church-goers deserve Buch a quotation hurled at them in-discriminately,-but- prefer to regard the' jpsaimie reference as a slip in the •Copy, or probably a prauk of the , .printer's imp, 1 and with the perversity :-• rusiuai of. that worthy, giving a twist '.T^pithe; meaning,; the reverse of that 1. intended ; for on transposing the V iuTthe numerals denoting the, chapter s ; ft-ri turning to . Psalm xcvi., V. 8, the I i'^^effect is remarkable, for the honest worshipper will then.be. encouraged to i-* ir €rive tttttO the Lord the glory due ! 7^nn|to :i Hiß ; lianie ; bring; an offering yl : "attd : 'odme into his courts"— which -jnostjprobablv is the passage intended.