READING SERMONS.
The following amusing protest against reading sermons appears in the report of the proceedings of the Edinburgh Free Church Presbytery. The anecdote is related by Dr. Begg. Ho says;“My fa tiler was a thoroughly popular and vigorous preacher, and had always a large congregation One Sabbath, being from home, one of the young men, called by the people ‘ paper lads,” took this place, and was not well liked by the people. When my father returned, he received a poem from one of them, embodying a strong complaint. It was somewhat long and vehement, and I only remember some of these lines. After describing the entrance of the youth into the pulpit, and the opening exercises, the writer proceeded : “He slipped the Bible in the dark, Thocht nane wad see, Awa wi’ siccan smuggled wark, Its no for me. (Much laughter.) And thinking he wad no bo seen, Did something in the Bible preen, But ah ! there were ower mony e’en On him that glanced, And ca’ed it weak and unco mean, What he advanced. (Renewed laughter.) I never liked sermon readin’, It's but a dry and sapless feedin’, Sae tell yon chiel for to bo heedin’, If he come back— His sermons dress in ither deedin’, Than white and black.” (Loud laughter.)
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 127, 26 June 1863, Page 3
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214READING SERMONS. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 127, 26 June 1863, Page 3
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