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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13744, 8 May 1908, Page 7

While the " pagan" controversy is going on in Auckland, a. minister has been discoursing on the subject in Dunedin, and making use of stories to the point. One was about a Welshman, whose wife had taken ill. The pastor had been sent for, and a friend suggested that a Bible should be procured in readiness, as he might wish to read. The Welshman pondered for a moment, "Bible? Yes, I think there is one at the bottom of the old chest. But," he. said, "we have had no use for them sort of books for a long time —not since the old cow died!" The other story concerned an ignorant man who had been taught to read by the local clergyman. Meeting the man's wife one day, the clergyman asked her how John was getting on with his reading. "I suppose, ' he remarked, "that he can read the Bible pretty well now'/" "Oh, bless you, yes." was the response. "He's out of the Bible and into the newspaper long ago." The preacher followed this lip by warning his hearers to take care that they did not themselves resemble these people they had been laughing at, l