A PULPIT MAEAPROP.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13231, 26 September 1908, Page 12

A PULPIT MAEAPROP.

A certain clergyman, widely known and as widely honoured throughout tho Middle Atlantic States during his fifty and more years of earnest and telling labours (he has "passed on to his just reward" within the past few • months) began his clerical career inauspiciously (says W. J. P. in the "Los Angeles Times"): That is to say, ho was given to the most unfortunate remarks—and. it must bo added, saw their unintended meaning the minute thowbrds were out of his mouth, acknowledging tho blunder by the hottest of blushes. The first such remark of record, camo the second week after he had gone into tho pulpit of his first charge. Ho was announcing a communion service for the following Sunday, with confirmation in' the evening, and he put it: "The Lord will be with us in tho forenoon, and tho bishop in the evening." At another time, when his congregation had tried hard, but without success, to raise by contribution a sum of money to meet the interest charges on the usual mortgage, ho announced: "I need not say here how much this church stands in need of immediate funds. Wo have tried to obtain this in the customary way and have tried honestly. Now-we are going to see what a bazaar will do." Perhaps his last slip came in a sermon directed against the very human fault of vanity. "Many a good woman comes in God's house to show off (perhaps she doesn't quite realise it, but the fact is unchanged)—to show off her best clothes." Then ho glanced across the crowded pews and added: ''I am thankful, dear friends, to see'that none of you como hero to so unworthy a reason." --~ Vi ,