The Benton weekly record., 1880-10-01
d'a4HlHeuCAH. a ANECDOTES.
Some "a aaasasfmg Reading.

Is experiences is sometimes varied toy com
q passages, none the less amusing, perhap
g from being quite unprecedented BY tho:
q to whom they are due. Though few i
l these days would have The bad taste
:, joke on things sacred, there can he i,
u htrna in noting 81 few etcentricities All
coRlretesa2s which are said to have o.c,lfre
: IN connection with things clerical. ;s9.
OF the Rev. Robert Stephen uawkes
e vicar OF MorWenstow, many coed storie
are told, In his Life by Mr. Barring Gould
: When young, he was q very tricky fellow
: and kept most people around him in ho
8 water, At suatton, where his father Iiv
I ed, there was grocer whom the yo1n.
I trickster delighted in teasing.
ssHe would dive into the shop saws hi
F, biographer, ''catell hold OF the end of til,
thread that curled out Of the tin In which
the shopkeeper kept the ball of twine witt
which he tied up his parcels, and race will
it in his hand down the street, then III {
lane and down another, till he had uncoil.
ed it all, and laced Stratton in 4 cobWeh o
tWine, tripping up people Ms they weni
along the streets.
After Mr.. Huwker was appointed Vicar
OF MorWenstoW, the untidy condition 81
church affected one of his c,,rates, d man
OF somewhat domineering character to
'lt such an extent that one tlay the latter
swept up all the rubbish he could tlnr1 in
the church; old decorations of the previous
Christmas, decayed so4sthernwooel and ros-
es Of the foregoing midsummer feetivity,
scraps Of old Bibles, prascr-books. and
manuscript scraps Of poetry, natcll-encls,
c'aandlle-cnds, etc., and having tilled bar
roH with all these stlnarjes. he wheeled it
down to.tie viearage door, rang the bell,
aud asked for Mr.. Hawker. The vicar
came into the porch. c&a +.
This = said the curate, lis the rubbish
have found in your church. an s..
Not all, = said Mr.. Hawker. "Eomplete
the pile BY seating yourself Oh top, and /
will see 10 the whole being shot speedily. >
The Literary Chnrehmau givesan araus-
Ing anendote Of Mr.. Hawkcr, who was
walking one day on the eliHa near sforwen-
stn,x viii, rho De,- "A. v. 81.
wind took Off Mr.. W.'s hat. and carried eit
ora, tha c,;H. w;tl,;,, ...sae. - :
Metho,1.f n,eat,,,er :, r,,r 80 .,;..,,,, =
,n, ~ nravar ana +; t,a san,,, 80, -. - ~, ~, :
,.e..,.a nor ha~a <o,, ,,aar ~, =. 80 80.
eo''1n7 your s'lppIlcafa''1i,, g
blessings: t,l1f ash also foy temporal fafors.
4 will Illustrate tny meaning by relating All
incident that happened 10 myself ten days
ago. ! TFas ot, The shore Of a cove near a
little Insignificant place In Nerth, Corn
wall, named Morwenstow, and about 10
proceed to Bnde. Shall add, my Chris~
tan friends, that ] had Oh ms head At the
time shocking bad hat-thst I somewhat
blushei to think <. Of entering that harbor-
town and waterillg-place SO. So ilI-adorned AS
to my head? Then lifted up . prayer
tor covering more suited to nay head. At
that solemn moment raised my eyes and
saw in the spacious drlnanenU on high
the blue, ethereal sky---a black spot. It
approached--it largened-it5 widened-it
fell at my feet. It vas e brand-neW hat by
celebrated London maker: oNat my
battered beaver TO the waves, my Christian
friends, and walked into Butle as fast as ]
could with q new hat on my head s'2s
The incident got into the Aethodist Re-
porter, or some such paper, under the
heading Of tsRernarkable ArlswerEto =prav-
err - z7 ~ sssssE 51s@*e
nd, = said the vicar, the rascal made
of with Ar. w .'a new hat. There was no |
reaching him, for we were on the clia, and
could not descend the, precip;ea. Ha was
deaf enough, / promiae .-vou.. to- our
shouts. ., e. e...@r..=.
4 Archdeacon Wilbereorce having come,
into the neighhorhood TO advocate fhe
cause of the Society forfhe pronapation of
the Gospel. met MI. Hawker.
Look here. said the a,rhdeaeon: 81
have 10 speak at stratteu ro-nighf. ana :
ana told that there is q. certain Mr.. KriglatI
who viii be on, thenlatfnr1,, and ;asa s>aor.
iful speaker. Il have not. much. fine To
spare. IL ie possible il,y "a hint IA rpsance
him to reasonable liu,iea r,,--.........z.
Mr.. Hanker said it was. utteply iInDossi-
ble-he VAS Irreprasgible,
&#ssB,lt,,' he added. ,sleaye him ta me-
and he viii not trouble vou.,,
At the meeting this Mr. knight was ON
the platform waiting for his opportunity
% rise. 81.
'aAh Knight said nr.. Hawker in 4
whisper, "the the archdeaeon has lef, his |.
watch behind, and mine u also It hame;
you viii len|l you're for timing The speech
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