ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 3, 20 October 1877, Page 3

ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT.

Till- following story is related of Dr. Short, late liishop of St. Asaph, in Wales, hj was the habit of the Hishop, who wi-hed to ascertain for himself the real star- of his di «•, to doff his shovel hat. and epsicopal apron and kt breeches, and in a working man's clothes, to visit in disguise the remote villages of his spiritual territory. On on radon he mad.. Ml excursion designedly to a parish where he had appointed to preach a charity sermon on the following Sunday. Tired wiih a long walk, and having ascertained that the parson of the parish was away from home, he approached the door of the comfortable Rectory house, and was there accosted by the Rector's lady, of whom, as a weary traveller, he solicited some nourishment. Mis. Rector, clad in purple and Hue linen, and faring sumptuously every day by means of the fat living hor husband held as the representative of Him who " had not where to lay his head," was little practised in the Christian graces of charity, and at once demurred tit the i,.|n il ol'ihe disguised Bishop, •• w .. ii ,;: , ;, K .", ,l ;;;; i ., l ,!: ,> f;;:" :;;

i ... who ilm l I* - ng lo our parish. 1,, sides, how do 1 know ; ■ are even a I ■ Tell lue how . many comtnandmcuts there are '. " The episcopal lieggar, after ostensibly ' cu Igi I i>,.: his brains, replied '-eleven," whereupon the ladv turued her visitor from the pious do a steps, inf ing him 'ii.it In was not, on the ground of his profound religious ignorance, a lit and pro]H.-r oi.j.i t for i. ih f. On the following Sunday afternoon, avoiding any rectorial hospitality, his Lordship drove to the parish church; I and the Rector havim; saiil the prayers, - !■ liisliop eventual!) ascended' the pulpit. Looking straight into the Rector's pew beneath him, where in _ i {otitis apparel sit Mis. Rector, waiting instruction from his fatherly lips, he gave for his text the following Divine words: -,\ new commamlment give I unto you. that ye love one another " ; and coiiinu-nccd his sermon by remarking thai whereas persona generally imagined that there were only ton commandments, this, the eleventh, was thegreat Christian commandment, and quite as binding upon the professors <jf Christianity. History does not record what course under these trying circumstances, was adopted by his fmh cateclu'ser; and her feelings can be better imagined than ilescribfd. She had. perhaps heard of the hospitality which, in olden times. brought heavenly visitors to the domiciles of Abraham and Lot, but had not calculated that in this late period of the world she might by the Christian dole of a little nourishment to a weary traveller, even have entertained a Bishop unawares.