A BISHOP’S STORY
A Bishop at Home inis made a broadcasted appeal to the people of, England not to make jokes or to laugh about drunkenness. The Bishop of Stepney (a couple of London bylanes containing more people than there are between the North Cape and the Bluff) said he Tipped the beer jest: would never be ruled put, .because i,t is the saving grace of Britons to make light of everything, and he didn’t think beer was absolutely sacred. He remarked that on one occasion a man who entered a church was seen .to be distinctly under the weather, and the vicar dispatched a very tactful churchwarden to this delinquent, hoping to get him removed without disturbance. The vicar watched the churchwarden approach the man. smile at him and .whisper. The man instantly got up and followed the churchwarden out of the church. Afterwards the vicar asked. “But what did you say to the man ?” The churchwarden replied: Come and have another,” arid he came like a lamb!
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1928, Page 1
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169A BISHOP’S STORY Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1928, Page 1
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