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Show KtBUKED FROM THE PULPIT Pastoral Admonition, Gently Conveyed, Should Have Been Enough for Even Choir Boys. The pastor of a small parish In a T"ew Jersey town was known far and wide about the countryside for his quaint ways and eccentric habits. He had a small choir which he augmented on special occasions with boys from the neighborhood. These recruits were sometimes unruly and he did not always al-ways find It easy to hold them within the proper bounds. Jn the course of a, Christmas morning morn-ing sermon several choir boys began to eat peanuts surreptitiously and the crackling of the shells was plainly audible to the congregation. At first the rector paid no attention to them, but finally they got on his nerves. Pausing after an impassionate outburst out-burst of oratory, he fixed his gaze sternly upon them and thus addressed them In reproving tones : "Boys you choir boys, I mean. If you must eat peanuts in church, please, oh, please, do not crunch the shells," then turning again to the congregation, he resumed his discourse. |