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Show FROM OUTSIDE THE PALE. Sexton's Reason for Not Seating Strangers in Church. Bishop Potter had been tolling tfio Bundny school convention Borao of tho things tho Cathedral of St. John tho Dlvlno Is going to bo when It Is finished. fin-ished. "I hope to glvo no oITenso to my brother clergy," ho said, "if I say lhat it is going to be tho church in Now York where a Btrangor can And a place." x Then ho told this story: "When I was rector of Graco church t noticed ono Sunday a group of four or Ave strangers who stood at tho door half through the service although thero wero empty seats In tho pows. After service I called my sexton to me. Brown was an Interesting and picturesque, pic-turesque, but, I regret to Bny, profauo personage. '"Brown, I said, sovorely, 'no ono Is to be left standing while, there Is a vacant scat in tho church. I saw four or five persons standing this morning right through morning prayer. "'Yes, replied Brown, 'but they camo frpm New Jersey. "Now York Times. " |