The Worthington advance., 1900-09-14
YARNS TOLD By = BISHOP.
bsverals Tunny Stsries That Are Tela
About Clergynsn ana Thsls
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many respects aremarkable . man. Al
though he,was'notsd @ : man Of great
piety, he loved to listen to a.Yood story
and to tell one, too, says : London pa.
per. He relates that . woman IN Z
small Welsh farmhouse-Whitti tinRton
Is on the border Of Wales being taken
very Ill, neighbor went for the clsr.
ygyman, who said he would come d.
rectly. The neighbor, going back to
the farmhouse, said they had better get
out Bible, a. the parson might asl,
for one. The farmer. thereupon told
the woman she would find one, he
thought, Ut the bottom Of an old chest,
"for, thank goodness" he added, "we
have had no occasion for them sort OF
books TOR many . long year-neve1
since the old cow was so bad"
The first time that. Archdeacon
Wickham visited this deanery as arch.
deacon, reates, the bishop, II drove
him to q parsonage, where the in.
cumbent insisted upon his inspecting
everything. In the garden is a little
pool, and over this pond we beheld q
strange erection: of posts and planks,
with q sort of saddlelike seat on the
top. On tho archdeacon asking the in.
cumbent what it was, he explained
with great delight that it was cap.
ttal contrivance5 by which you could
take exercise and make yourself use.
ful by pumping water to the church,
where he had just been building q
transept. So, saying that he would
show US, he clambered up. sat down
on the saddle, smiling, and began to
work the treadles eagerly. Unfortun.
ately, however, the work at the church
having just been finished, the pipe
which had conveyed the water 10 the
workmen had been cut of just above
the surface of the water. The eonse.
quence was that he Immediately pro-
duced q jet of water which shot
straight upward and almost lifted him
OF his seat, entirely upsettinx the
archdeaconal gravity. As we returned
to the house the incumbent begged the
archdeacon to go into the backyard
and smell the pump, which, he said,
stunk horribly. The archdeacon pro.
tested that he had no authority over
pumps, but he would take no denial,
and when he got into the backyard he
said: Now, Mr.. Archdeacon, if you will
put your nose to the spout I will pump.
The arehdeacon was, however, quite
unequal to the occasion, and said: NO
I depute the rural dean to put his nose
to the spout, and will receive his re.
port, and, If, needed, pronounce an
ecclesiastical censure.'"
A Yorkshire clergyman, we are told,
had to pay dearly for his good nature
In taking an incumbent's place at short
notice and preaching borrowed ser.
mon.
"A shy, nervous clergyman near
Bradford was about to help friend by
reading the prayers, when a message
came to say that neighboring in.
cumbent was taken i'll and to ask TO,
help. The rector could not 90, so the
friend had to be sent, but, having nc
sermon with him, he borrowed one
from the rector, who wrote a clear
good hand. He selected one well writ.
ten, of which the subject was The
Value OF Time and meant to read II
over on the way, but eventually did
not like to do so, az he sat beside a
servant who drove him over. So it hap.
pened that he had to read it for the
first time in the pulpit. He got on very
well till he came to a sentence SAYING
that, a. the parish possessed no church
clock, it was his intention to present
one. He was too nervous to omit the
sentence, and; was assured at Brad.
ford, did actually present the prom.
1sed clock, which cost 6 TO-"