A Timely Reproof


A YOUNG chaplain had preached a sermon of great length. Sir, said Lord

Mulgrave, bowing to him, there were some things in your sermon of

to-day I never heard before.--O, my lord! said the flattered

chaplain, it is a common text, and I could not have hoped to have said

anything new on the subject.--I heard the clock strike twice, said

Lord Mulgrave.



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