Author: Thornton, W.H.
Title: Reminiscences and Reflections of an Old West Country Clergyman - First Privately Printed Edition
Description: Andrew Iredale, 1899. Hardcover. 318p. This is the Second Series of the book - the first was published a few months ago. Bishop Phillpotts had said to me, with the satire natural to him upon his lips :- Young man, I suppose you will be wanting to preach. I wish for one year I could silence you altogether, but I cannot, as there are two churches to be served. You would like, also, I daresay, to preach your own sermons, and this, no doubt, would be excellent practice for you ; but think, sir, of the inconceivable sufferings you would inflict upon your unfortunate hearers. No, for the first year I command you never to preach if you can help so doing, and when you cannot, select one of Bishop Andrews' sermons, it would take an hour to deliver, translate it into modern English, cut it down to twenty minutes, and however much you may bungle over it, you cannot do much harm by your clumsiness. Hardback in original green blind stamped boards with gilt titling on the spine. The book is complete but has been well used with a shaken binding which show several loosening signatures. A newspaper cutting tipped in opposite the title page. See scans. . Good

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