KNAPDALE ORDINATION.
— : 1*"~: — : — ,....., : . TO THE EDITOR. ■ ■ . -.■■•;•' Sib,— -You are evidently well' armed with caterers of news for your paper, and I beg to congratulate you upon the, fact. .The zeal o* some of your contributors is not only beyond all praise, but beyond all discretion, as witness a loca ; l v that appears^in r thiß, day's issji^r " A little bird has whispered to us that there was nearly a very awkward contretemps at the recent ordination service at Koagdale. Half-a-dozen Presbyterian divines assembled, and not one of them was in possession of -the printed formula used on , such occasions, and had not the dominie at Knapdalo been in possession of a copy, the ceremony must have | been postponed." A very pretty story',jMr Editor, but, alas ! and unfortunately, like •many other pretty stories, there isn't a word \>f truth in it.— l am &o;,' ; j \ J. M. Davidson. } The Manse, Mataura,' Feb. 27th, 1883, '
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Mataura Ensign, Volume V, Issue 234, 2 March 1883, Page 2
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153KNAPDALE ORDINATION. Mataura Ensign, Volume V, Issue 234, 2 March 1883, Page 2
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