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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 84, 9 April 1868, Page 2

At the continuation of the proceedings in couoection with the Week of Untted Prayer, promoted by the Evangelical Alliance, the Hon. and- Ilev. B. W. Noel delivered ihe address, in which he dwelt forcibly on the necessity for a mere emphatic declaration of the truths of the Gospel on the part of all who were appointed to teach them. There was not sufficient heartiness in the preaching and teaching of the present day, and many taught the troths of Christianity as though its Author were a myth. He commended to- all such persons a remark of Garrick, the actor. A clergyman said to him once — * Mr. Garrick, how is it that while people go to sleep while we (the clergy) are preaching, you can always keep people awake ?' ' The reason,' said Mr Garrick, 'is this : Tou teach truth as if it were a fabia ; we speak fables as though they were truths.' Mrs Margaret Carr, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, bought a black cat for the purpose of taking three drops of blood from it to be administered to a grandchild suffering from croup. Thereupon her aeighbors raised a tumult, charging her with witchcraft, and she was obliged to call upon the authorities for protection. Mr William Owens, her lawyer, brought 20 witnesses to prove that the child recovered the moment the dose of blood was adjmsistered.