A Strange Coincidence.
It may be presumed that the petition, "Save mc from my friends," was never more fervently uttered by two people at tb» same time than it was at a certain adult Bible-elass in London on a recent Sunday afternoon. Papers were forthcoming from two of the members on the second journeyimgs of St. Paul. Mr Primus delivered himself of his lucubrations with considerable confidence, not to say success. His brilliancy of sescriptioi., his flowing periods, and, withal, his mastery of the subject, held his hearers spellbound. Mr Secundus rose and read, not without some slight halting, a few pages of his nocturnal study. Sentence after sentence fell familiarly on the ear, page after page, identical—mirabilo dietu—with those of Brother Primus. The temperature of the reader rises visibly. The atmosphere becomes oppressive for all. Confused and crestfallen, Mr Secundus cuts short his ordeal and quits Uie arena, impaling 'both his friend Primus and himself with the naive but all-too-obvious explanation that they must both have been "studying" tho same work. . '
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 241, 10 November 1903, Page 4
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172A Strange Coincidence. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 241, 10 November 1903, Page 4
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