A NECK-TWISTING CONGREGATION.
A curious story is told of an eccentric old American minister who was sorely annoyed by a habit his people had acquired (and winch prevails now to some extent) of twisting their necks round every time anybody entered the door and passed up the aisle of the church, to see what manner of person it might be. Weai-ied with the annoyance, the old man exclaimed one Sunday, "Brethren, if you will only cease turning your heads round whenever the door opens, and keep your attention on me, I will promise to tell you, as I preach, who it is that comes in." Accordingly he went on with the sermon, and presently made a stop as one of the deacon 3 entered, saying, " That is Deacon And then he announced in turn the advent of each individual, proceeding the while with his sermon as composedly as the circumstances would admit, when at last a stranger came in, and he cried out, " A little old man in green spectacles and a drab overcoat; don't know him; you can all look for yourselves." It is hardly necessary to add that the good old man carried bis point, and there was but Httle neck-twisting seen in his congregation after that day.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 126, 15 September 1876, Page 2
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210A NECK-TWISTING CONGREGATION. Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 126, 15 September 1876, Page 2
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