Misplaced Sympathy.
A story is told of the energy and vigour of the Archbishop of Canterbury. At the last Church Congress his Grace had taken part in an absorbing discussion, followed by a vigorous speech to a men's meeting and an audress to an overflowing meeting, and was about to wind up the day's activity by a, walk to the lailway station end a late journey back*to town to be ready for the ordination of two bishops on the morrow. "May I call a cab for your Grace?" anxiously inquired a clergyman, who feared the effects of exposure after so much exertion; but the Archbishop gave him briefly, yet firmly; to understand that his sympathy was misplaced.
A few yards farther on another clergyman, recognising that the heacl of the Church of England is no longer young, in spite of his air of leonine robustness, stepped across and begged his Grace to allow him to hail a cab.
"What for?" asked the Archbishop, with some abruptness. " "Why, your Grace, rain is comijig on." " Well, if you are made of sugar, I am not, ' rejoined the Archbishop, as he sturdily strode forward.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2416, 28 June 1900, Page 70
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191Misplaced Sympathy. Otago Witness, Issue 2416, 28 June 1900, Page 70
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