SHORT-SIGHSED RECTOR.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8758, 7 March 1907, Page 1

SHORT-SIGHSED RECTOR.

Owing to the very rough weather on the, Staffordshire border, the organist andchoir failed to put in an appearance at a recent Sunday evening service at church, the roads being almost impassable in the scattered parish. The rector, however, arrived punctually, and he bagan the service. The singing took the form of a duet performed by the parson and the clerk, and then the rector delivered a sermon of twenty-five minutes’ duration, after which he proceeded to the chancel, and from its steps presented the alms dish for the offertory. The verger then stepped forward, and said, “ It’s no use taking the plate round, sir, for there’s been nobody but you and me in the church.” The clergyman, who is very short-sighted, had no 1 idea of the real state of things until enlightened by his verger.