Peculiarities Of Parsons
LONDON. “I can remember some peculiar parsons. I owe a lot to an old friend who filled his vicarage with church barrel-organs. He had 17 splendid instruments he has restored from oblivion and placed about his house. There was even one in the bathroom. It was the same priest who evolved a most ingenious way of recalling wandering attention during sermons. He unscrewed a number of brass knobs from bedsteads about his parish and used to secret these on the reading desk of his pulpit. If any of the congregation nodded, one of these brass balls would roll from the pulpit and would fall, with a rap, on the pew below. Sometimes he would let loose a regular salvo. Eccentric? Perhaps, but he was a lovable old man and a first-rate parish priest.” Canon Noel Boston speaking in the 8.8. C. programme “Through East Anglian Eyes” about some parsons he knew in his boyhood.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28699, 24 September 1958, Page 21
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