THE RIVAL ECCLESIASTICAL JOKERS,
Dr Stephenson is the latest addition to the ranks of ecclesiastical jokers. He told a very good yarn on Sunday evening at Pitt-street Church, about the way in which some people could point out m a church the very square-yard of ground on which tla^jSj-^ad been converted. A railway guard, of his acquaintance, could not do that sort of thing. IWhen lie left the railway station and had fixed This parcels for the next halting place, he got dow^n upon his knees in his ran and asked for mercy, the! train meanwhile careering across counti t y <w a<r sixty miles an hour. When he reached the next station lie had been forgiven and had gained peace. " But," said the Doctor, who went in bald-headed for his little joke, " that railway guard could never tell to a mile or two where he was converted." A quiet "snicker" ran through the pews, and rippled along the galleries, but if this sort of thing goes on Thomas Spurgeon will have to look sharp to his honours as an ecclesiastical joker of the first water. At present Stephenson has the best of it by " a mile or two."
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Observer, Volume 5, Issue 124, 27 January 1883, Page 308
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199THE RIVAL ECCLESIASTICAL JOKERS, Observer, Volume 5, Issue 124, 27 January 1883, Page 308
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