PULPIT ORATORY.
The Wellington Times says: Mr Robert Parker's motion at the Synod tbat candidates for h«ly orders should have somi knowledge of the principles of public readings-peaking, nnd of the art of vocal music provoked a long and interesting discussion. It also, elicited from the Bishop of Cliristcliurch an, amusing statement of ihe .wanner in which he received bis first'lesson in the art of public reading,and speaking". It was duriug the lime, lie was a young' enrafc, who rather plumed him«elf up&u hi* pnl« pit style, and his mentor wa& an old lady of the congregation. . Leaving the cEorcli one. day after service he overheard this ancient damp remark syinpathisingly to a crony, . "How. the , puoi; de»r squeaks, to besiire!" This was a lerelatioa to him that 'he-)m& accustomed to speak in a'falsetto:jMHcej and h», atonce addressed himself Jo ; tfie rtask of cornet' iucr this matmerianv' : - ~y. ;•- , V ■
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXV, Issue 7170, 10 March 1892, Page 1
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149PULPIT ORATORY. Thames Advertiser, Volume XXV, Issue 7170, 10 March 1892, Page 1
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