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Show AIT OLD CEBMOBT. A country slsrgymaa tell thia anecdote anec-dote ia London Answer: The vicar waa a vary old man. He ksd bean la ths pariah forty-two year. During; my last year there I waa prae-bi prae-bi ceily ia charge of tha services, but aow and then, when he was able, he occupied the pulpit Hi eyesight waa bad aad hs waa altogether unfit to compos com-pos freak sermons, so hsd to fall back oa aid am Sunday morning we were alarmed with a discourse, a aeerly aa I caa remember, as follow: "W ars stand lag todav," be aaid. "face to faee with a great powsr ia the east. We re oa the verge af war." (Long pause.) "W are we are or we r oa the brisk af war with Russia. I r we, I mean -we will new proceed to consider the next point." Ia the vestry, after servioe, I asked aim about thia projected war, aa I had seea nothing noth-ing shout it ia th paper. "That sermon," ser-mon," he aid to me with a very far off look la h' eyea, and a alight sua picioa of a smile ''that sermea J wrote ia !44t" ' ' |