Some Clerical Notes.
The Comhill Magazine gives some nminiscencies of bis clerical duties by an anonimous writer. One Christmas Day he married twenty three couples before breakfast. On one occasion he was marrying an elderly gentleman who was very stupid, and who wbuld not do what he was told to do. ' Seeing that the clergyman was bothered/By his extreme stupidity he siiddenlyApoke up in the middle of the service and saidj? " You see, flir, it's so long since I wa3 married ftfore, that you must excuse my forgetting of these things." He once had a most unpleasant experience ♦• The fact was the floods were out," he writes " and, as I had to ride through 'some of the water on horse b&ek, I deemed it only a prudent precaution to affix to my heels a pair of sharp spurs 1 forgot to take them off when I put on my surplice, and when I got into the pulpit, which was a very awkward little place, I squatted firmly down upon them." A colonial farmer had to ruefully pass the collection plate, but explained the reason in a loud aside, "You'll find a pie on the vestry table "
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Manawatu Herald, 27 September 1892, Page 3
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196Some Clerical Notes. Manawatu Herald, 27 September 1892, Page 3
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