Nonplussed.—A late learned and eloquent bishop was very anxious to convert a Parsee* who. was making some stay in London, and meeting him on an occasion favorable for : private conversation, he opened an attack upon his peculiar tenets. "I cannot think," said he, "how any man qf intelligence and education,- whose mind has been; enlarged by travel and association with men of different opinions, can worship a created,object, such as the sun." "Oh, my lord,.bishop," returned the Parsee, who had not been fortunate in the weather since his arrival in the country, "You should see it. You have no idea wbata glorious object it is.",
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3133, 4 March 1879, Page 4
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105Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3133, 4 March 1879, Page 4
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