A CLERICAL COUNSEL.
The cropping up of the name of Mr. Waddy in connection with the resignation of the Recordership of Sheffield recall, writes Mr. ' W. H. Lucy, some inevitable stories about his predecessor, Sir Frank Lockwood. Lockwood and Mr. Waddy went the &ame circuit together. It was Mr. Waddy's custom of a Sunday murning to repair to some Wesleyan chapel in the town or neighbourhood, and relieve the minister of the duty of preaching a sermon. Hearing of one such engagement, Lockwood and. two or three other/ members of the Bar resolved to join the congregation. Possibly they were in search of spiritual instruction and comfort, without any thought of the embarrassment that must affect even so seasoned a hand as their learned brother on being discovered in the pulpit. Their conduct was unexceptionable. They sat all in a row, attentively following the service that preceded the sermon. Just before its conclusion Mr Waddy said :— " And now, dear brethren, I will ask Brother Lockwood, whom I sec in the pow before me, to engage in prayer." Brother Lockwood got himself excused. But as he and his two learned friends walked away after tho sermon (.and a collect jpn) £b., e y agreed that ' Brother Waddy rath'pr had the best of it,
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7627, 13 December 1902, Page 2
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212A CLERICAL COUNSEL. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7627, 13 December 1902, Page 2
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