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tight to keep from bunting with laughter, The minister took in the situation in an instant. Here was a man in the church who understood Welsh, and who was laughing at the trick that had been played upon the congregation. But not a feature in the minster's face changed. Fixing his eyes straight upon the laughing man, just as the congregation thought he was about to give them the Chaldaic version, he said, again In "For (Joel's sake, my friend, dont Bay a word about this, till I have a chance to talk with you." v The congregation went home, Batisned that they had listened to one of the moat learned of sermons ; the laughing man never told the Btory, and the minister was soon settled aver the church, the people believing that a clergyman who could real the Scriptures in five languages was just the man for them.— N. Y. Times.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1506, 25 September 1880, Page 27
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