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Show Clerical Humor. A local prenchor, who occasionally got his metnphors mixed wns preaching preach-ing on self righteousness and ended his discourse by saying: "Lot us remember re-member thnt after all our righteousness righteous-ness Is but filthy rags hanging on tho branches of barren trees." On another anoth-er occasion he wns preaching on besetting beset-ting sins, nnd when comparing these to obstacles In our path exclaimed; "Lot us bewaro of these stones by tho way-Bide, way-Bide, lost thoy turn again nnd rend us." Tho at ono tlmo well known prenchor prench-or among tho Wosloyans, Peter Mackenzie, Mac-kenzie, In reading tho third chnpter of Danlol invariably abborvlatod tho fifth vorae, whcrdln aro enumerated tho instruments of tho Babylonian band, most of them with hard namos, to tho "cornot," otc, and whon tho uamoB wero ropeated In verses 10 and 15, said: "The band ns boforo." Ho was a lay preacher of tho old order who was admlttod on to full plan without with-out having read tho prescribed Wosloy Sermons," etc. Ho boastod of his lack of "book learning," and scornfully told a student of tho now school who wns learning Latin that "English was good enough for Paul; nln't It good enough for you?" |