THE DANGERS OF THIEVING.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 205, 30 August 1913, Page 6

THE DANGERS OF THIEVING.

It has sometimes happened that the preacher has appropriated bodily for the pulpit the complete sermon of another man, and with humorous results. A Cambridge don could hardly have been reading his own composition when he made the sudden appeal to an astounded undergraduate

congregation, '"And now, a word to you who are mothers." A young * curate-friend of my own in preaching one Sunday read from his manuscript, "After forty years' ministry among you." He was, in fact, using one of his father's sermons and he had not taken the precaution of reading it over beforehand.