ATTENDANCE AT CHURCH.
Dean. Hole usoc.l_ to fell of a IS'orUi Country clergyman's rebuke of certain of his parishioners who rarely if over atlendeJ church, I.hmkin« Ihoy'raaclo up for it by the regular attendance of tlioir wives. He related how one. of thrso husbands came to tho (rates of Paradise, and St. Peter, who stood there with the keys, rather roughly inquired, "Who are you?" "Oh. St. Peter! I'm Mr. Smith, from Leeds." "I don't know .you." "Oh, if you please, St. P.eter, I'm the husband of Mrs. Smith, who went regularly to church and tnuffht in the Sunday-school, and was kind to.thfi poor." "'Why did you not do likewise ?" "Oh, St. Peter, I was in business nil Hip week, and very tired on Sunda,y. and T thought if Mrs. Smith went t,o church regularly, it, would do for both of us." "Your wife," said St. Teter, "ttm a tru». faithful Christian. Shfl earns to these (?ateg three rears ago, md iha h»s ffoiie in—for both of jou!"
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 52, 29 August 1925, Page 17
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168ATTENDANCE AT CHURCH. Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 52, 29 August 1925, Page 17
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