Father Tom's Ret ort.
Father Tom Burke was riding one day in Dublin on the top of an omnibus, reading his breviary. A theological opponent got on, and thought to read Father Tom a lecture.
" We are told, sir," he said, " that when we pray we should not be as the hypocrites, who love to pray in public, and at the corners of streets, that they may be seen by men. Now, when I pray, I enter into my closet, and when I have shut the door I pray in secret." "Yes," replied Father Tom, without taking his eyes off the book, " and then you come on the top of an omnibus and tell everyone all about it ! "
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Otago Witness, 14 December 1893, Page 49
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118Father Tom's Retort. Otago Witness, 14 December 1893, Page 49
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