A PARSONS' UNION

NZ Truth, Issue 174, 17 October 1908, Page 5

A PARSONS' UNION

Badly Wanted m Christchurch.

Parsons frequently; go on strike m Chxistchurch, where there is a strpng objection to plantjuog^a, cadaver before four o'clock on the Lord's, -Day. • Ob Sunday pork butcher Sharman was consigned io his last resting-j)lace, but Anglican sKypilot Sedgewick absolutely .refused to read the burial service before 4 p.m. Now, the defunct had ' been a fairly regular attendant at Sedgewick's place of worship for upwards of thirteen years, and his relatives were indignant and thought it mean of the' parson. At aoyrate, they were compelled to fall back on '. th# ,/ ' . ' -;. ■ ' ■ ■ -

REV. WOWSER DEWSBERRY, of Durham-street Merthody Church, who performed the necessary rites.. This looks 1 like bad business on Sedgewick's part, m view of u»e / -- v competition m heavenly matters, but it is a question of whether Dewsberry didn't rat upon his brother parson. Sky pilots seem to be pretty independent m Christchurch, anyway, m view of the fact that quite recently the boss o'; St. Paul's Scotohbyterian '■ rkirk, Cashel-street, refused to bury a corpse because the husband wasn't a regular attendant, although the missus enriched .the plate constantly.. On this occasion an Anglican parson did the neeflful, ai circumstance which seems to point to the necessity for some sort of a union amongst the devil dodgers. Now If a;v " 'V' ] ■ - SKY PILOT'S INDUSTRIAL UNION ©f Workers were registered under the Arbitration Act, it would prevent any sinphifter from ratting on his holy brethren, should any one of them stand on his dig and refuse to plant the deceased before four o'clock on the Sabbath. Thus would the public- be brought to their senses and desist from having a. morbid but spectacular processicfn -yithin reasonable hours. The Onion's operations needn't necessarily be confined to funerals, but embrace every section of the church's work, so that prices-could be fixed by Judge Sim m the ordinary way, and the parsons would take an interest m Labor Day proceedings like any other union of grafters. "Truth" commends this surges I,lom to 'the ' revs-rends of Chijistchurch for .favorable cbusideration s