The Portland daily press., 1867-09-25
Clerical TabIc-Tnil,

IL Is often very amusing to see what mis-.
takes clergyman will make in giving ont no
tees, or In extemporaneous speaking.
Thus distinguished Bishop, within the
border OF New England, on the occasion of !,
great marriage, when his church was crowded
anu NOISY, tne mass being impatient, and the
greater portion standing upon the seats and
backs OF the pews, in his desperation ey-
claimed, will the people, remembering that
TINS IS GODS house, be pleased to sit down on
the floor and put their feet on the se0fsn
Inc uproaf That followed these words was
periectly fearful, and the unconscious Bishon
Tell BACK INTO his chair, feeling that he ho5
peen grossly insulted in his own Cathedral
:. we know clergyman who was once de.
llvelnS an extempore lecture on first chan.
oo,s VI 0ehesis,ahd endeavorng to answer tie
guessi0h, VINO was Gains vile. He reached
Ine Ioiiowing singular conclusion: "From sil
t Mn.oH iacts we are forced TO the Conclusion
nat yam the eldest born of Adam. must have
married MS own aoite." He meant s;star
safest. "ie certainly the
,., Another clergyman Gust married. under
taxing 10 give out notice O. a ment;nn, -. - e.
helu at his house, which bannanad ,,atS " pe
nec1ory, sad: :there will be service at NV
-our-aC the house OF the mjnjsterv ~ 10y
SICK man who was dying bv ;ncbes of
consumption, was once visited by an ofiicions
person anxious to do good. He Questioned
the man very closely about his SOUPS welfare
ana asked him what he thought of the near
approach OF death; and how the other world
looked? The sick man heard him with oo,o-
mendabe patience, and answered him with |
que respect, and then solemnly turned upon |
MS questloner, and asked him precisely The |
same questions. The startled man left i'm (
pressed with the idea that 1t would be well to \
leave the visitation of the sick to moro ev- |
perieHced persons.
IN the course of the discussion which arose |
az tne time when DR.. Bushnelfs work "God !
~ ~ onrisI hrst appeared, pat1iarchial pas
associations resolution in Condemnation
IA nav you read the book ?" inquired another
NO, have not, anu / don't want tn and
don't mean to-" "Then. nv good father },
responded the interrogation, 'syour resolution
hasn't any bottom to stand on" Next day it
was told to Dr. Bushnell what father C. had
said, ana the doctor, with sly smile, re-
Pneo' wen, 1t don't make any difference for
ne Wouldn't nave understood it il he hatl. -
Mucn OF the controversy in our cbufcb is of
the same sort with this.
a canadian boy, in the quiet town of ST
Catherines, had been punished bv his fa+ber
Win soiltary confinement for lying. He show
ca on release that he had been employing
ms time IN theological reflections instead Of
father. '''Noo mo
Ia, did you tell lies when you were little Pr
Inc father, perhaps conscience smitten. en-
deayored to evade the question. But the
child persisted.
Did you tell lies when you were little ?''
wen. no." said the father; "but why did
Did ma tell lies when she was littlepv
don't know, my son you must ask her."
Weli, retorted the hopeful, zone of you
must have told lies, or you could not have lad
boy that would do it,"