FATHER TAYLOR.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 28, 12 July 1890, Page 20

FATHER TAYLOR.

There was no levity in his words or manner. Once only, he himself said, was he provoked into laughter. A Millerite brother, as the Second-Advent people of 1843 were called, took occasion to vent his theories in the meeting. He dwelt on the immediate coming of the Lord with much fervour and pertinacity. A halfdrunken sailor, sitting in the rear of the house, warmed up by his exhortation,arose, steered, with many a roll to larboard and starboard, to the front seat, put his hand on the shoulder of the speaker, and hiccoughed out : ‘ I have seen—many of your sort ami heard ’em talk. But I never knew but one, that was so—full as you, and he got —so full of it, that he Juist cut tiix lumt-straps and vent up!’ Father Taylor broke down, ami allowed foroncea laugh in his prayer-meeting.