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Show Kn:rllsh Pronunciation, At the General Theological Seminary Semi-nary alumni dinner in Buffalo a few days ago Rev. Dr. Van De Water told an amusing story about the last pan-American pan-American conference of bishops in England, which he attended as a chaplain. chap-lain. There was a certain meeting at which the title of each bishop was loudly announced as he entered by a functionary, at the door who was quite unfamiliar with many of them. He got along pretty well, however, until Three American and one colonial bish- ' op came along, whose cards he read as follows: "The lord bishop of Ee-o-wah (Iowa), the lord bishop of O-hee-o (Ohio), the lord bishop of Misery (Missouri), the lord bishop of British Gehenna (Guiana)." |