PLAIN TALK

Temuka Leader, Issue 2191, 21 April 1891, Page 4

PLAIN TALK

The Bev. Jacob Primmer, from Dunfermline, addressed an audience numbering about 150 in Bank-street Hall, Irvine, recently. Referring to the act of malicious mischief committed recently in Glasgow Cathedral, he said there had been an image of one of the fowls of the air thrown down in the High Church, Glagow. and in the eyes of the Town Council of Glasgow that was a more serious thing than murder. (Laughter.) There had been lots of murders committed and no £IOO, reward had been offered for their discovery. But they offered £IOO for evidence against the person who had gone and knocked down the image (Laughter.) When the Ark of God came before Dagon, and Dagon went down, did the Philistines offer £IOO to knew who knocked it down. He thought not. It was a good thing that they had had a meeting that night in North Berwick, or some of them might have been [apprehended. (Laughter.) Mr Primmer caused a great deal of merriment by his criticism of the idea that a man cannot pray to God properly without the aid of a prayer-book. What would Jonah have done in the whale’s belly ? | (Laughter.) And if Jonah had complained to the whale that he could not | praise God without instrumental music, 1

the whale might well have replied that be bad had enough to do to swallow him without gulping down a harmonium. (Great laughter.) Referring to a new pulpit in Paisley Abbey, he said the way in which it bad been described to visitors reminded him of the showman telling the little girl to blow her nose and not breathe on the glass. (Laughter),