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The limit of human endurance is supposed generally, to be reached when the minister of the Gospel swears (says the' Sydney Daily Telegraph) In ordinary street parlance when the victim of some misfortune recounts his experiences, he frequently concludes with the characteristic observation, ''Swear ? Why, it was enough to make a parson swear." Rev. Dr. Clouston told the Presbyterian Assembly .'the other night of an.actual happening of this kind, and of a -neculiar lapse from rectitude onthe part of a bush minister. -jit1 was in the very early days, and the gentleman in question was in the habit of tying his horse to the boundary fence-while he held a short service indoors. Looking through a window on the occasion of one of his periodical visits to a bush homestead, the minister noticed a bad boy—they have them in the country as well as the city—playing tricks with his horse. Suspending worship for the moment, he called upon the lad to desist. The juvenile ridiculed the idea of doing anything of the kind, and continued to tickle the legs of the restive equine. "Whereat," said the doctor, "the rev. gentleman swore, and went back- and resumed his prayers." That, it was explained, however, was in the early days, but the Church had, been suffering ever since. '