Duchesne Record | 1920-03-11 | Page 6 | Rebuked from the Pulpit

REBUKED FROM THE PULPIT 1 1 Pastoral o Admonition m n G Gently t Conveyed Should Have B Sun Isn n Enough for S 'S Even Choir Choir Boys 1 The Jle pastor of a small parish in a aNew New J Jersey town was known far tar and wide Ide about the countryside for his quaint ways yas ways and eccentric habits He Hi had a n s small all choir which h he augmented on special occasions with boys boss from the neighborhood These recruits were ere sometimes unruly and be did not always always al al- al I ways find It it easy to hold them within i f fth ithe th the proper bounds 1 t. t In the course of a n Christmas morning morn mom morning ing s sermon rmon several choir boys began to tont eat nt peanuts peanuts' surreptitiously and the crackling of ot the shells was plainly i audible to the congregation At first the rector paid no attention to them but finally they got on his nerves Pausing after an on outbUrst outburst out out- r burst of pt ora oratory tory he flied fired his s gaz Z gAZe sternly upon them and thus addressed them In reproving tones Bo Boys you Boys s 's sou you ou choir choir- boys I 1 mean If It you must eat ent p peanuts in church please oh please do not crunch the shells then turning e again gain to the congre congregation atlon I Ih he h resumed his discourse e. e 11