A NEAT RETORT

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1687, 29 June 1904, Page 40 (Supplement)

A NEAT RETORT

Dean Farrar, soon after he went to St Westminster, was dining at Professor Jowett’s, and towards dessert took up his parable against Dives. His voice rose higher and higher, he spread silence around he was heard thundering out—-“ What I complain of as i\ clergyman is that I'fhave to do what no layman has to do, I have to beg and beg in vain. Fashionable ladies come to my church glittering with -.• precious gems, and, yet they will not sacrifice one diamond from their grand ' tiaras in order to save; some erring sister from destruction.” . When, he ’ finished " the silence grew sultry. AJI thdhearers looked' gloomily at their plates.f; Then Jowett, who had been looking as • though he meant mischief, squeaked out—“ What I object to as a clergyman is dTidtyl.havo to exaggerate so !” ’’.C:L;.-O•