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Show YEARS OF HELL, PREACHER SAYS (By International News Service.) LONDON "Five Years of Hell in a Country I'arish," is the seductive title, under w hich the Itev Edward K. Syn- I DOtt, M. A., rector of Rusper, recounts his experiences. The book, needless to say. Is attract-1 in;,' a bit of attention. In his story of a back-biiing community com-munity .slnnoti says his crimes included": in-cluded": I sang too loudly I'M not cross myself, "Kaced through the services like a man about to catch a train ' Let children fall when I baptized i hem "Put the wedding ring on a lady's thumb. Married the wrong couple." Ml OH 11)1.1. fiOKSIP. i if the women this 'There are no Helens of Troy in) Rusper Some there are who, denied beauty of face and form, made themselves them-selves still more repollant by their thoughts, words and deeds. Long hours spent in Idle and venomous gos-Sip gos-Sip seem to leave marks on their plain and vacant faces " . Even seven enlurles ago, Ik- de- J clarcs, Huspei wus notorious for gos-; MP ' i came Lo Ruspsr with hooo pounds in m pocket. ' Ik- adds, "At the end i of five y-ars I am wort), about Six- I pence. Much had to be squandered! on e:-. m uses to meet I In frivolous1 Charges which any church member, can and some chunb members did 1 bring against me " POAOHtSD HIS RABBITS And again: i "Sometimes when I noticed that my ! morning congregation WSS smaller I ithan usual , rid that soma cvell-Known, I faces were missing. 1 could not help' 'thinking that I know where thay weri I gone The) were busy elsewhere on' ;m farm poaching my rabbits." Ard after all thye and many more 'pen rdctures of his village friends, '" legpects to continue at Rusperi Hoi I, loses his book with' With renewed courage and unshak-) on faith, 1 bring these chapters to an , 'nd, and In my quiet pariah of llus- j I per prepare to enter upon a period of I which, a few years hence, 1 ma ..iue to write under th.- title, "Fne 'Years of Heaven In i ountry Pariah.'" |