A minister of the name of Sparks, was the father of thirteen children. At the baptism of the thirteenth, an aged 1 rother divine, desirous to choose what seemed to him an appropriate description of the life of man, called on 'the congregation to join in singing the fifth paraphrase, beginning with the line—"As sparks in close succession rise." He could not understand the people's merriment until, when he descended from the pulpit, things were explained to him.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 623, 29 November 1913, Page 2
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78Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 623, 29 November 1913, Page 2
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