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Show Congregation "Fed Up" on Ten Virgins' Sermons It Is still customary In rural districts dis-tricts In Scotland for the minister to preach a series of sermons around one Scripture text. The parable of the Ten Virgins had been selected by an old minister for a series of ten sermons, ser-mons, In which he took one virgin at a time. Many of the church folks were heartily heart-ily tired of the subject at the end of a week or two, but it was left to the beadle to tell the minister the truth. Asked by the good man as he was disrobing him In the vestry one evening eve-ning how he was enjoying "my analysis an-alysis of the characters of the virgins." vir-gins." the beadle replied brusquely: "The halp congregation's fair scun-nert scun-nert wl' them. sir. They ronun be a lot o' tough auld maids by this time!" London Tit-Bits. |