BISHOP'S DILEMMA
The Bishop of Soissons, France, recently escaped from a difficult position and at the same time established a high reputation among his people. In a part of his diocese a war memorial was to be unveiled and on the day before the ceremony the weather was so threatening that a deputation of organising officials waited on him and pointed out that rain would mean disaster to the proceedings. They therefore begged tho bishop to pray for fine weather. The morning was beautifully fine until the ceremony was finished, when rain fell in torrents. At a dinner that followed the unveiling, the bishop confessed that he had been much embarrassed, for prior to the war memorial deputation he said he had just received a delegation of farmers who declared that their crops were being ruined by drought, and begged him to intercede with his prayers on their behalf. "I think," concluded the bishop, "it will be agreed that I did my best to please everyone."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 146, 18 December 1933, Page 8
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166BISHOP'S DILEMMA Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 146, 18 December 1933, Page 8
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