AMUSING SCENE IN CHURCH.
It was the Rev. Rowland Hill’s habit to drive to chapel in an old family carriage, a practice too aristocratic in the judgement of one of his flock, who determined to rebuke it.
It was customary in his chapel for notes to be sent to the pulpit requesting prayers for various objects, and one Sabbath Mr Hill was proceeding with the reading of these requests as usual, when he found himself in the midst of the following purport:—Prayers are requested for the Rev. Mr Hill, that he may be more humble, and like his Divine Master, who instead of riding in a carriage, was content to be borne on an ass.
Having read the notice he lifted his spectacles to his forehead, and looking round the chapel observed that it was quite true he • had been guilty of the fault alleged ; but if the writer would step round to the vestry door after service, saddled and bridled, he would have no objection Jo riding homs,' after his Master’s example, on the back of an ass.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3759, 5 March 1907, Page 3
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179AMUSING SCENE IN CHURCH. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3759, 5 March 1907, Page 3
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