Show i r PHEACHEn AND THE POET 1 Writer Speculates on Shakespeare asa as-a Churchgoer Probably Shakespeare did his own thinking on questions of religion said little and conformed strictly to the existing ex-isting order Still wo question If he was n good churchgoer Tho town pad church of Stratford bad a decided bent toward Presbyterianism and hero la reason to think that he did not get on well with In this respect Himself Him-self the wisest of preachers ho docs not seem to have been fond of preaching preach-ing That which Hounds most lllto It and very wine It Is comes from Polonliis vhom ho calls a prating old fool VV four that whon he walked to church with ids wife ho wont no farther thun the porch hut strolled along the Avon where ho was found by Susanna and Judith I on a grassy bank In close converse with daisies pled and violets blue and hcrho1 Brace us became Sunday And In winter he wits not sorry when cough lug drowned the parsons saw The preacher and the pool have never got on well together and will not until they are Identically the same personas l person-as Cardinal Newman says and they iiiuut not divide and antagonize what God have joined together Theodore T Munuor In the February Atlantic |