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A Call from the Lord.

The Rev. Mr Berry, an able Wealeyan clergyman stationed at Wellington, has got an invitation to a bigger stipend in Victoria, and though he is usually conspicuous for sound sense, he was indiscreet enough to refer to it in Conference, in the usual canting style, as ' A Call from the Lord.' Thereupon one of his brethren rather brutally remarked that it was all nonsense to bring the Almighty into a matter which was purely one of the almighty dollar. Sooth to say, the harsh and unsympathetic tone adopted towards Mr Berry by his clerical brethren suggests that they are intensely jealous of the popularity and preference shown him, and are desirous of throwing every obstacle in the way of his advancement. Mr Berry's bitter complaint that, if lay brethren were allowed to vote on such a matter, he would be much better dealt with, embodies an undoubted but shameful truth — that clergymen are too often narrow and unsympathetic in their treatment of each other.

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