A DIPLOMATIST IN THE PULPIT.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 2956, 29 April 1898, Page 3

A DIPLOMATIST IN THE PULPIT.

•• Ex- attache " contributes to the New York " Tribune " aome interesting particulars of the career of Sir Edmund Monson, our new Ambassador to Piiria. Nothing, it seem?, ever disconcerts or disturbs Sir Edmund, who is absolutely imperturbable nud never at fault. An amusing aud characteristic illustration of these qualities was furnished one Sunday at the Biitish church in the Embassy Gardens at Vienna, wheu the excellent chaplain who waa staying out of town at Voeslau had umsed the only train into the city. Nothing daunted",- Sir Edmund took bis place in the'chancel. arid proceeded to celebrate divine service as if to the manner born ! But that was not all. After the conclusion of tbe Liturgy Sir Edmund j solemnly and gravely ascended the pulpit and i preached an extempore sermon, choosing as bis j text the controversy which arose among Christ's j disciples as to which was the greatest and the j ieatt, his disourse ou Ihe subject being listened > to with rapt attention by the junior;, members \ of .Ihe- Embaaa'titsifl.; .^Npfhiog.,. says;;'* Ex- ' Attachei" could baye/e-t-jec-eded toe good taste ( sod revere- cc with which he played his role as ! a pries', and the long white beard and stately ' presence ueemed thoroughly in keeping witb the i-nowy curplice which he had borrowed from the wxrdtobs ot tl c ehapUin fur the ccoasjou.