Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1904 — Hard to Find. [ARTICLE]

Hard to Find.

The bishop of—never mind where*? being a newcomer and being somewhat troubled with a neglected diocese, thought to inspire his clergy to take occasional services during the week by periodically visiting and taking one himself. On one of these occasions, having found quite a good congregation and having been moved to much eloquence in his sermon, he felt a not unnatural desire to know if he had made any impression on the usually unimpressionable yokels. So he put some leading questions to an old clerk who was helping him to unrobe in the vestry. “Well, I hope they’ve been pleased with yer,’’ said the old man patronizingly, “and I am sure we takes it wery kind o’ yer worship to come down and preach to us; but, yer know, a worsser one would have done for the likes of us, if so be,” he added, with becoming humility, “one could be found.”—London Tit-Bits.