VICAR’S EXTRAORDINARY SERMON.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11280, 9 August 1930, Page 10

VICAR’S EXTRAORDINARY SERMON.

Instead of preaching from a. conventional text, according to a report in the “Daily Sketch,” the Rev. Geo. Bymock, vicar of St. Bede’s Fishponds, Bristol, spoke on the following verses, “What I Don’t Like About America” :—■

I don’t like, their virgins or their ' vintage, Their gunmen, their bosses, or- their guys; I’d rather have a cottage near the pavement • Than one that goes a-soaring to tho •skies.-"

I don’t like their traffic* cops or judges, -Their gangsters, their grafters, or their crime. I’d* rather see an honest- '- pub., in England , Than “fall” for a “speakeasy” or a dime., .• '

I dpp’fc lilfo •- thqic. - chpwipg-gum or canned stuff, Their dollars, their doctors, or their dope. , I’d- rather, if I -must, die here ip. England-.- ." Than suddenly, bo dropped by ‘gat’ * pr rope. i -

I don’t likp their film fans or their ** talkies/ . ; Their sobstuff, their sects, or “sun- ■ uy boys.””• « • I’d rather see a sunset on the Severn ■Than' lounge about iix tip-up seats ‘with*-toys. - •■■'•.'■V V

Buff>l,-most' off-all don’t like -“Old /Glory,” ; Aucf what I really- cau’t forgive..you ' , for/ ‘ : I’d '-rather lie /.‘stark dead-out there” ;■ i-in. Flander- ; , Than tpll the world how, Wall Street : won the war. . ■. v