Wide of the Mark.
Mr M'Dougall was a Scotsman, and of him a good story is told. He was a large, pompous man, "intolerably self-conceited ancl arrogant ; in fact, his conduct towards his neighbours was so offensive that the good people successfully requested their minister to preach a sermon directed at their neighbour.
The day came. The little kirk was packed, though a few tender-hearted ones stayed at home, not wishing to witness their neighbour's humiliation.
The sermon began, and Mr M'Dougall disposed himself to listen. The man's -infirmity was sketched with bold, severe strokes. He smiled with lofty superiority. As the denunciation grew more scathing- his smile deepened with a touch of complacent pity. At the conclusion of the service he swaggered down tho aisle. One of the elders joined him. "Well, what did ye think of the sermon" the latter ventured to ask.
"A great effort, sir," was the answer; "but personal. The niecnister aimed his shots too directly. Poor MacTavisH ' I ielt sorry for him; but the man's cenceit is enormous, sir !"
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Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 10 April 1901, Page 69
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175Wide of the Mark. Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 10 April 1901, Page 69
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