AN INQUIRY.
fT(3 THE EDITOR iiAILT BTANDABD.) Sib,— Have you ever, m your trayels/j, come across a clergyman candiel enough/ to admit that he only *' preaches for a living.", I have,,and he resjdeß M^rfweliT-; I won't say where, but it is nearer you than us. The admission was made to a friend of mine not lonir.ago. He wound, up by adding, " and, really, I don't know . that there is anything else I am fitted ffor." Well done, parson 1 Speak the truth, and shame the devil. Better be a live ass iban a dead martyr, any day, Verily, this is an age of rapid intellectual frogress, 1^ would like to fhjpar, frfendi vo himself^ on thief subjectf And these are; the elect If Onlyi"pre|ach| ing tor a living 1" I am, dec. U. A. H. Feilding, June 26, 1886.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1746, 29 June 1886, Page 2
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139AN INQUIRY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1746, 29 June 1886, Page 2
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