HE WAS COMING.
WHEN the Rev. Sydney Smith was vicar of a Yorkshire parish, he was in the habit of not commencing the service till the Squire took his seat in his pew. One day, however, seeing a gentleman in the Squire’s pew, and mistaking him for the Squire himself, he commenced the service by reading the words, ‘ When the wicked man turneth away from the wickedness,’ the clerk, who had better eves than the parson, immediately bawled out, ‘ Hold on sir, he’s not come yet.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 36, 5 September 1891, Page 342
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86HE WAS COMING. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 36, 5 September 1891, Page 342
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