Show tho offertory tory the offertory occasionally yields ita its humors I 1 can seo see no fun myself in dropping into tho the plato plate buttons or peppermint drops or gilded farthings far things bu buti these and other such like votive offer ings occasionally como come our way on ono one occasion a mild hint was given to a dirty looking verger when a small coin was carefully wrapped up in a bit ol 01 0 paper inscribed fora forn bath for a prom anent church official on another occa sion when tho the officiating clergyman hat been somewhat bungling through a i dif ficula litany a similar piece of paper was marked for a singing lesson for the curate after a somewhat rambling di discourse dis coura scours from one of my colleagues who shall ot of course be nameless the church warde told mo me that a man at tho the bottom of th church when he offered him the plate tools took out a sixpence and looked at it ruefully and arid then cast it in wit it the remark well you shall have it old fellow but its we a deal more than that sermon was worth cornhill magazine |