The Point is in the Application.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 238, 21 January 1888, Page 3

The Point is in the Application.

A well-known parson in Lewiston has been trying to put up certain shades this week. Perspiring with exertion, he sat himself down on the window-sill and looked at the street. A neighbour passing by said : ' Well Mr B. how do they go ?' 'Eh,' says the parson,* they go; well, go a good deaj like Mr Boggs' bull. You've heard about him ?' 'Never,* was the reply. c Well, then, it was the first pastorate I preached, arid one of my first prayermeetings in the pastorate. Things had come to a "standstill. Nobody had anything to say. I was young and somewhat frightened at the silence, and hardly knew what to do. I felt that I must say something, however, and so I exhorted the people to say what the spirit moved, to discuss things, to give testimony on trivial matters, if need be. Suddenly up rose Mr Boggs. He had something to say, and he said it, and this is how he began it. I never got any futher than the beginning of Mr Boggs' testimony, for that points the allusion. Mr Boggs arose painfully and began: "Now there," said he, II there's my bull. He's acting like the very devil— r-r" ' And here the parson looked at the window shades and smiled. And the neighbour smiled meditatively, wended his way homeward, thinking of the untold limit of, emphasis that is denied in general. to gentlemen of the cloth. •