Show bishops pious fraud exposed by editor at an informal clergy mene dinner given tho the other night some excellent is stories tortes current among the local clergy were related one of the tho post moet enjoyed wae an told of at the late esteemed bishop latane 1 who was sufficiently broad minded t to enjoy a joke oven at his own expense tho bishop was once making a series of visits to the then scattered parishes of canada it was summer and the clergyman woin wain down from the winter work resolved to take advantage go of this opportunity for mental relaxation relax allon and to preach tho the same sermon it each of the several churches VIel visited ted bo so he be wrote ono one sermon a good strong stirring luB ser roon man and without another line of manuscript started on hie his journ journey my it taa preached at first at st john N X B and received the appreciation it deserved but ite its very excellence coon soon became a source of embarrassment the vestrymen of several thought the sermon too good to be lost and in turn besought the lisbon to allow the whole or of it to bo be published in their local papers booked Do oke to preach in thirteen fen parishes parl shee bedora ho he concluded in ontario the warded off with one oxe cuse or another this throat threatened ened ex of his 1 ono one and only bratu acal effort but tho the last parish D reached and ltv last sermon deliver dl ed od he yielded gracefully Erace fully to persuasion persua and committed the manuscript to the ru blisters luer banda bands alas for the tile blab blob T copti precaution it had been bl unvarying custom to jot down at ih ond end of a manuscript the places it which that special sermon had bad beba pra chod ched ana an the datis ot its te tho the canadian manuscript h had d proved no exception to the rule we abo edithel of the local newspaper newa paper published the that sermon in full with the addition audition of ofa preached at hollowed toll owed by the date of delivery and the tte names of the tair I teen of canada dal baltimore ti moro bun sun i |