Show ANECDOTE I 1 M or DR da WEB WEBSTER STEn in 1774 dr webster was a popular preacher e aher of the kirk of scotland in ea edinburg i fiburg some business brought him to london and one day when passing the house of lords curiosity induced him to make an effort eff ortto to step in and see them none nona were admitted without art an order except noble meals servants and anc we webster lister being ignorant of the tale bulei requested towe rewe admittance what wha t lord do you belong to asked the door k beeper aper to the lord jehovah replied webster the ithe lord jehovah repeated the doorkeeper 1 I have hate ke ket it here seven years but I 1 never heard heard of such a lord jack he called to his fellow keeper heres a chap who says he be belongs to lord J jehovah do you yoa know such a lord I 1 never heard of him said jack but said webster willing to keep up the illusion there is such a lord guessing from his bis dialect that he was from the north arh pass pas it im in 11 said jack 1 I fiose its some poor scotch lord 39 the doctor used to tell the a bove above with great glee among his intimate ri ends this occurred at a period when there was as not one in twenty of all in the manufacturing and rural districts in en eng gland and who could read the bible 0 or r write us own name to the th e shame shaine of the government or rather the church of that day be it s spoken sabbath schools were introduced introduce Tin in 1783 and that was an in u uphill phill up p hill business too they got no support or countenance from the established church it is wholly the lalor labor of the khe dissenters and to their credit be it told old |