EXCUSABLE WRATH.
It is told of Dean Gilbert Stokes that during a plague of influenza, which laid low his verger as well as the two churchwardens, he instructed a neighbour's coachman to take the offertory one Sunday morning. "Take the what, sir ?" asked the man, completely mystified by a word which to him was quite unusual. "Go round with the bag and take the offertory—the collection -the money from the people in the pews," the dem explained. The coachman now seemed to understand what was required of him, go off he went; and the hymn began. Suddenly there was an unseemly interruption, and the coachman was observed to be engaged, while discharging his new duties, in angry altercation with two of tl-e congregation seated in a prominent part of the church. The dean peremptorily summoned him to the altar rails. "What is it?" asked he, ia consternation. " Why," said the coachman col'lect r, "ther's two me . in the best Matswlwti
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 240, 5 December 1900, Page 2
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160EXCUSABLE WRATH. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 240, 5 December 1900, Page 2
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