Salt Lake Herald | 1891-10-04 | Page 9 | Jolly English Clergymen

Jolly English Clergymen Owing to the fact that so many English citizens spend the summer on the continent the different Church of England societies detail preachers of that faith to take their own vacation on the continent and at all the resorts the preachers conduct religious services each Sunday I have met a number num-ber of these ministers or rectors and they seem to be a very jovial set of men In contrast con-trast to our own preachers in the United States they not only frequent the gardena and drInkingplaces but they do not hesitate hesi-tate to sit in the smokingrooms of the hotels and indulge in grog Scotch whisky and water Why not said ona of these preachers to me as ho sipped his grog and smoked his pipe We enjoy tho good things of this world but do not abuse them They are evidently tho same kind r of persons that Thackeray so vividly describes 1 de-scribes in his novels I observe when handed a card by any of these preachers that they invariably give you their club as well as private addres and this is particularly particu-larly true of London and the outskirts One of these preachers seemed much surprised sur-prised when told that it was a rare exception excep-tion in the United States for a minister of the gospel to belong to a club Richmond Uf Dispatch i1