THE PASTOR'S KISS.
BISHOP'S IDEA AND THE LADY'S CRITICISM. Some time ago Bishop Olmsted, of New York, preached a sermon in defence of the " ministerial kiss," and since then that particular brand of osculation has become an institution in America. New York is considerably agitated about the right or .thewrong of it, and amongst those who hold the latter view is Miss Clara Moms, who has some very hard things to say about what she calls the " Tabby-cat Parson" and his kisses. And this is how Miss Morris describes kisses in general: There is the monarchical kiss, the courtier's kiss; the fraternal, paternal, and sisterly kiss ; the kiss of charity, of pardon, the Judas kiss of betrayal, the kiss of lust, the kiss of love, the melodramatic and the half-minute blazer, the kiss operatic, the "soul kiss," on and up to the number of 30. But the. kiss with the least right of existence is the bland and unctuous tabby-cat kiss of a tea and gossip-loving pastor!
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13745, 9 May 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)
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167THE PASTOR'S KISS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13745, 9 May 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)
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