A PHENOMENAL CURATE.
A startling phenomenon is reported from Kingston, Canada, in the shape of a curate who has joined the Salvation Army. The Rev. Dr Wilson, the curate iu question, has not resigned bis curacy, as he desires to live and die in the service of the Church of England. But as be goes about speaking at the meetings of the “ Army,” and vows he will stick to the “ Army ” as long as it “ picks up the drunken and depraved and makes them pious and happy,’’ there is a great commotion in the Anglican fold. Pressure is brought to bear upon the Dean to have the objectionable curate dismissed. The Dean has written to the Bishop, and the public has sided with the curate, “ whose long service in the Church, his popularity in the city, and the exceeding usefulness of his careeer,’ are all pleaded in his favor by those who object to his excommunication. As for the curate he is incorrigible. The “Army," he says converted an archdeacon’s brother who had been proof against ordinary agencies, to say nothing of drunken members of the Church of England.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3357, 7 January 1884, Page 2
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189A PHENOMENAL CURATE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 3357, 7 January 1884, Page 2
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