The following clever epigram oh a fashionable high church iR worth reprinting :— "In a church that is garnished with ni nl lion and "able, With altars and veredos, with gurgoyle and groin, The penitents' drowse.* are sealskin and sable v The odor of sanctity's eau-de-Cologne. Bui surely if Lucifer, flying from Hades, Weie to light on this crowd with its panniers and paints, He would say, as he gsiz.«d at the lords and the ladies, ( O, where is All Sinners if this is All Saittts 1" ?
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 2, 9 May 1885, Page 3
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