His Name.
A correspondent of The Christian Union < tel}s an anecdote concerning the late Bav.j Dr. Samuel A. Clark, of Elizabeth, N. J,j a well known clerical wit, who yet knevr perfectly well the proper limits of levity.j and never wounded a friend's feelings or marred a sacred place or tuoment with his irrepressible fun. At the First Church; congress held in New York in the yeatj 1874, a friend leaned forward and whi*j pered: "What, Brother Clark, are you going to read an essay today?" i
''Certainly," was the immediate reply;] "I am known__to the church as S. Aj Clark."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 253, 22 October 1892, Page 4 (Supplement)
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101His Name. Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 253, 22 October 1892, Page 4 (Supplement)
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