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Show AMMUNITION FOR THE PASTOR: Sinners Alone Need Have Feared Contents Con-tents of This Box. The Rev. Edward Lloyd Jones, a Manchester, England, minister, tolls a story of his experience In Fenian days.' Ho was traveling from a Welsh village to Brecon, and had with him a strong wooden box filled with heavy theological books.. At Shrewsbury tho detectives Who were on tho lookout look-out for exploslvb machines and. tho like suspected this heavy, .box and word was sent on to Brecon. When tho young minister stepped out of the train ho was astonished to find a sergeant and several constables awaiting him. "I think you havo a box with you," said the sergeant. "Quite right," said tho preacher, who began to scent a Joko. Out came tho box and its weight excited fresh suspicion sus-picion about Its contents. "This Is your box?" "Yes." "It contains am-munition?" am-munition?" "It does." "Very well, consider yourself in charge. Open tho box." Tho company stood uway whllo tho sergeant found it contnlned nothing noth-ing more explosive than Adam Clarke's "Theology" ho expressed his Indignation freely to tho minister. All that he got back was tho soft answer: ans-wer: "Why, bless my soul, man, you asked If the box contulned ammunition. ammuni-tion. That Is my ammunition. I am a Methodist parson, and thaL's what I shoot with." |