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Show READ WRONG SERVICE. Pastor Recites Burial Ritual at a Wedding. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 20. Launched on the yea of matrimony with a quotation from the ritual for the dead was the unhappy position In which Dr. T. Snlvely Dunning of Columbia, Pa.. and Miss Elizabeth Christina Nlttlnger of No. 1420 North Seventh street, this city, were placed at their wedding In Grace Methodist Episcopal church, at Broad and Master streets, and uptown society tonight is still wagging Hb tongue over the affair. The wedding took place last week Bishop Kudolpb Dubbs of the United Evangelical church of Hnrrlsburg was the officiating clergyman. He wns reading read-ing from the Methodist rltunl. with which he was unfamiliar, and accidentally accident-ally turned two pages instead of one. He had read two sentences of the burial ritual before he Haw his mistake. Both bride and bridegroom nro well known In uptown society. Fifteen hundred hun-dred Invitations were Issued for the wedding, and the church was crowded, BIs-hop Dubbs had reached the bottom of a page. In the regular ritual a prayer pray-er follows the plight of faith, but to the consternation and painful surprise of all tho Bishop continued. "We brought nothing Into this world, and It Is certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave and tho Lord hath taken away. Blessed " Dr. Peters and Dr. r.irkln were clutching at the Bishop's sleeve. The face of the bride wus blanched; the groom's a study. A murmur of horror arose from the guests; everybody looked uncomfortable. Dr. Peters was the first of the clergymen clergy-men to coma to his huiiwh. He rend the prayer following tho plight of faith: "O, Eternal God, creator and preserver of all mankind, giver of all spiritual giacc," etc |