COLLECTION EXTRAORDINARY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1755, 26 June 1888, Page 4

COLLECTION EXTRAORDINARY.

-We clip the following ffdm a Napier exchange;--This 'story was told by a clergyman, and it ,is unnecessary to say, is true. "I had just come," said he;" to 'take charge of a small congregation: in the back' blocks of New Sjiuth./W&les, aud was anxioue to •attract as-many people ■as 4 could to ; t|y|c||urjb:o ijKefe' jsvai/ ; & character in; •the township known as—l regret to ; have to use the expression—Hellfire 'jjacf. \ "8.4 M$ gained I'tHis sobriquet because'he - sWore more than any ! man iir" the population whose language consisted chiefly of oaths. I was told; he was a > hard case, hut; I:'.determined ito ! try what I could do- with hiraJ After! had explained to him 1 what I "and 'thou .holding put his hand with a giim'" smile) said-'Boss,; .you're.genuine., ,3Tou let me, know; when your circus opens, and you' can bet your* boots'l'm* there.' 7 And he ,was t00., ) ..He sat near the door, and, when the' collection plate came round to him and he saw what it contained intpfit, and taßnjgf it'from' the manhvbo was< carrying it said ! iii a voice loud enough! to"be"heard*'all' over the ■- church. pWJSat'aJjhe [(profane) Moodf]of this lot r Give it to me and I'll (blasphemy), won see whether,.the (wicked words much in'iise in'tke %ackblb(!ks) won't part better than this I .' He'marched 'up to the front l row' of seats and gravely took up a second collection, naming ;each ■, person >as he ~eame to him,,and telling him to 'plank his coin down, like a man.' I never got I so mu,ch, jnoney , from ; ,a cpng?egation ibefere. And;he,did' th"ing ;; every iSutiday. while I remained in the township. That was Hellfire Jack.''