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Show MIMICAL COI! NCIDICNCUM. Dr. Donin tells of a comical coincidence, coinci-dence, of which the rector, curate, and congregation of a Western village were the victims. The rector and his curate both returned to their duty and after a long absence, upon tho same day. The curate took tho morning service, and preached so well as to astonish his hearers, in the evening, the rector, who had officiated in a neighboring parish in the morning, ascended the pulpit, and rather surprised his flock by giving out the same text as the curate had chosen in the forenoon. Their surprise became puzzled wonderment wonder-ment when they found it was not only tho same text, but tho saute sermon; and one can imagine the horror of the listening curate. The fact was, rector anil curate had each purchased some lithographed sermons, and were so unlucky un-lucky us to inaugurate their return home with the same one. Good as this story is, it is capped -by the misadventure attending three young candidates for a Scotch ministry. The lir.it one putting on his robes, hapocned to descry an ancient-looking, well-worn roll of paper, which proved to be a sermon upon the text, 'Jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents." Seeing that the old sermon was much heller than his new one, the aspirant to pulpit honors took possession posses-sion of it, delivered it as his own, and then returned it to its old resting place. The sermon was a good one, and pleased his hearers, although they would have preferred one delivered without hook. Great was their astonishment astonish-ment ihe following Sunday when preacher number two treated them with the same sermon from the same text; but it was too much for Scolli.sh patience when the third minister, fa ling into tho same trap, commenced his s'eimonby announcing that, "Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents;" aud one old woman relieved the feelings feel-ings of her fellow-sufferers by exclaiming: exclaim-ing: "Deildwcll 'uni! Is he never gaun to Hit.'" Chambers Journal. |