WOULD BE BAPTISTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8100, 27 August 1904, Page 2

WOULD BE BAPTISTS.

A certain Scotch collector of - bridge._4"-f~f on the Border was quite a character i~3_4{lsj way. Upon one occasion a large partgr_,.ofAmerican clergymen, who were visiting.. the' .Pan-Presbyterian Congress in . Sqoftiand,' came to survey the classic Borderland. The •nd of the bridge bears a notice that not more than ten people are allowed on ifcm once • but the clerics chose to disre^j&d this and went on in a body. The*Cotl'ecltor' saw them from his little sentry-box .and rushed out. ''; . . ■ " Back off that bridge," he shpufeiii. *nitb) a gesture worthy of a warden v : cf_ the marches. But, unnsed to such- fcoi-esi'^&e • clergymen pressed on. '--.v.-.' . "Back oft that bridge J" shoutedf'tlie collector again --'■' ■■■ ■ '•-"?' " But, my good man," expostulated the foremost, "do you know that we are members of the Pan-I*resbyterian Congresas?"; . "Ye may call yourselves pan-Presby^ terian or pot-Presbyterian," roared tbe^gpl-' lector, " ut if yell no gang ofE that bridge yell be »' Baptist- in twa meenita I"