Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1886 — Henry Taylor’s Vagaries. [ARTICLE]

Henry Taylor’s Vagaries.

At a large gathering of celebrities, shortly after his entry into literary society, he monopolized the conversation for some time by a paradoxical advocacy of Mahometanism as against Christianity. He appears to have somewhat trenched on the forbearance of his company, although the display was a most brilliant one, and Charles Lamb, who was of the number, rebuked him in the following way: When the party was breaking up, Henry Taylor’s hat was nowhere to be found. The hosts coming downstairs, asked what was amiss, when Lamb replied, “The gentleman has lost his turban. ” His hostility or indifference to Christianity appears to have lasted until he found himself rejected by tlw lady of his affections for want of definite religious belief. This led him toa serious examination of the whole matter, and at the end of twelve months, he was able to make a confession of faith which was satisfactory to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (the lady’s father). — Pall Mall Gazette.