Show the offertory the ofte offertory artory occasionally yi yields elds its humors I 1 cau can see no fun myself in dropping into the plate buttons or pep permit it drops or gilded farthings fAr things but these and other such like votive offerings occasionally come our way on 0 ono n 0 oc occasion c a s i 0 n a mild hint was given to a di dirty r ty 1 looking 0 ol 01 i n ve verger when a small coin was carefully wrapped up in a bit of paper inscribed F fora or a bath for a prominent church official on oa another occasion when the officiating clergyman had been somewhat bungling through a difficult litany a similar piece of paper was marked for a driling lesson for the curate rate after a somewhat rambling discourse from one of my colleagues who shall of cf course be nameless the church warden told me that a man at the bottom of the church when he offered him the plate took out a sixpence and looked at it ruefully and then cast it ir in with the remark well you shall have it old fellow but its a deal more than that sermon was worth cornhill magazine |