BENDIGO AS A PREACHER. -
Bendigo, the ex-champion prize fighter, preached three times on Sunday, in the Cabmen’s Mission Hall, King’s Cross, and each time to overflowing audiences. This whilom pillar of the “ fancy” is now sixty-three years of age, but he scarcely looks it, and is as upright of form and full of voice as a man of forty. His style of eloquence savors a good deal of the profession which he abandoned many years ago, and even the most earnest of his hearers could not repress a smile as in narrating his conversion he spoke of King Christ heating him at the foot of the Cross in one round. Bendigo has sorrow. He cannot-read, and he deplored his incapacity for reading the Bible, and perfecting himseif in its truths. There is no doubt that a good many of his hearers on Sunday were actuated by the mere curiosity of seeing the conqueror of “ Deaf Burke” and the rival of Ben Gaunt, hut not a few seemed to value his homely speech for another and a better reason ; and the promoters of. the service are hopeful that Bendigo will effect a work in Clerkenwell which men of greater learning would altogether fail in.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4332, 6 February 1875, Page 3
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203BENDIGO AS A PREACHER. – New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4332, 6 February 1875, Page 3
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