A FANATICAL PRINTER.
The Salvation Army is marching on tit Christchurch and gaining converts by the Lund red. A printer on the Lyttelton Times has given up a billet as good as a permanency bringing in fou;* notes a week, and has joined them at £2 a-week. (The correspondent to whom we are indebted for these particular's describes the new convert as a printer, but this is the first " typo " we have ever heard of that was troubled with religious convictions) . Among other jobs, he sells War Cri/s for the Army ; and the other day, offering one to a rough, he was recommended a journey to a warm place, whereupon he then and there Hopped down on his knees on the pavement and, surrounded by an ordinary crowd, he offered up aloud a prayer for the rough's conversion. The Army's influence is shown in many ways. A wife complained one day to the butcher boy who brings her meat that he was late, and was somewhat surprised at the reply, " Better late with the meat than late for Heaven." What can you say to people who talk like tins ?
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 159, 29 September 1883, Page 3
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189A FANATICAL PRINTER. Observer, Volume 7, Issue 159, 29 September 1883, Page 3
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