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Date: 16 JULY 2019
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Post No. 6638
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Dr South, when preaching before Charles II, observed that the monarch and his attendants began to nod. And some of them soon after snored. On this he broke off his sermon and said,
Lord Lauderdale, let me entreat you to rouse yourself; you snore so loud, that you will awake the king.
Xxx.
Three Kinds of Pride!
My brethren, said the satirical Dean Swift in a sermon, there are three kinds of pride—
of birth, of riches and of talent. I shall not speak of the latter, none of you being liable to that abominable vice.
Xxx
Sermon and Deer Hunt
A somewhat self -satisfied and greatly inexperienced young
preacher one Sunday supplied the pulpit of a country church. After services he
asked one of the church fathers what he thought of his sermon.
“Now I tell you, said the
old man ,
I will put it in a sort of parable . I recollect Archie
Tucker’s first deer hunt. He was kind of green. He followed the deer alright,
but he followed it all day in the wrong direction”.
Xxx
Drowning in Water!!
A prominent bishop tells of the Sunday morning when he was approached after the service by an old lady, who said in a tone of appreciation,
“Bishop, you will never know what your service meant to me. It was just like water to a drowning man!”
Xxx
Ten Minutes Sermon is Enough!!
A certain minister recounted a harrowing experience which
befell him during one of his sermons. Just as he was beginning his address, an
elderly lady of stern mien marched down and seated herself directly beneath him
in front of the pulpit. She opened up a little kit, assembled the various parts
of a rather elaborate hearing mechanism and affixed it her ears. After not more
than ten minutes of his discourse, she suddenly took off the ear pieces,
unscrewed the mechanism and packed it neatly away in its little box and sat
with her hands in her lap throughout the rest of the sermon.
Xxx
Charles Lamb and Coleridge!
“I believe, you have never heard me preach, Charles”, said
Coleridge, referring to the days of his Unitarian ministry.
“Yes, retorted Lamb, I …I … never heard you do anything
else”.
Xxx
Garrick said he would give a hundred Guineas if he could say
“Oh!” as well as the Rev. Whitefield
Xxxx Subham xxxx
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