STRANGE SERIES OF COINCIDENCES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8777, 3 April 1907, Page 4

STRANGE SERIES OF COINCIDENCES.

Many rare coincidences have been reported from time to time, bat it is safe to presume (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph) that there have been few stranger senes in the career of two men engaged in the same work than have occurred in relation to two members of the Methodist Conference now sitting in Sydney _ llcvs. W. H. Bcalo and J. G. Morris Taylor. The series is ically remarkable. It commences in 1891, when j Dev. Yv. H. Deale was appointed to the’Annibale Circuit. He was then in the twentieth year of his ministry, and Dev. J. G. Morris Taylor, when appointed to the same circuit, was also in his twentieth year. Each in his second year there was appointed chairman of the district, and each was appointed to the Hyde Circuit in his twenty-sixth year. Dev. W. H. Doale was called to the chair of the Conference in the twenty-ninth year of his ministry, and last year at Ivyde. To pursue the coincidences still farther, each delivered his ord,nalion charge from the same text from Timothy, and the coincidence is made still the more strange by the fact that each delivered the charge on the same date, Kev. W. H. Dcale on March .St.h, 1901, and Dev. Morris Taylor on March Bth, 1907- Last, but not least, each gentleman is the father of five children —two girls and three boys.