EXTENSIVE ORATIONS
THE MAYOR AND THE PREACHER. Fortunately for the Lord Mayor of London and other dignitaries who attended the Spital Sermon at Christ Church, Newgate Street, London, last month, the preacher, the Bishop of Manchester, is quite unlikely to compete with some of his predecessors in the length of his discourse. Mr Pepys (says hhe Manchester Guardian) who attended the service in 1662, found the sermon —“ a Presbyterian one ” —so tedious that “ after above an hour of it he went away, and in 1800 the Lord Mayor remarked to the preacher, the famous Dr Samuel Parr, that there had been four things in his oration which he had been very sorry to hear. “ Dear, dear, my lord,” exclaimed Parr in great distress, “ and, pray, what were they ? ” “ I mean, sir,” replied the weary chief magistrate, “ the quarters struck by the clock.”
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Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3183, 28 May 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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