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Show HE PUZZLED THE BRITISHER Evidently Doorkeeper Had Never Heard of the Lord That American Ameri-can Minister Served. Judge George F. Lawton of the Middlesex Mid-dlesex probate court told me a story the other day of an American minister minis-ter who was spending his sabbatical year traveling abroad. Arriving in London, he made every effort to get an intimate view of the two branches of parliament in session. Of course no stranger is allowed on the floor of the house of lords, but the minister ! not knowing this, and with the usual amount of American push, tried to make his way in. There is a rule, however, that servants of the various lords may be admitted to speak to i their ministers. Seeing the minister I walking boldly in, the doorkeeper asked: "What lord do you serve?" "What lord?" repeated the astonished aston-ished American, "the lord Jehovah!" For a moment the doorkeeper hesi-I hesi-I tated and then admitted him. Turn-j Turn-j ing to an assistant standing near, he said: "Fie must mean one of those poor ; Scotch lairds." Boston Record. |