The Archive · 1893

FROM ENGLAND

To the Editor of the Noxru-Emma Dany News, Sin,—Our theological tutor usually had a bad time, Since I left college I have often pitied him Of course, it was not all on one side. Sometimes we ed him and his theology at—, I may as well be honest and say it—Jericho. "It was an awful bore and quite as much as flesh and blood could stand. We much preferred Dickens or Thackeray. Nevertheless we ever and anon had our revenge. We took it out of our Gamaliel. Of one instance I frequently think. An objection to the orthodox view of the Atonement was made. And no wonder; experience teaches me that it is not by any means water-tight. In replying, the following words were uttered, "Now imagine me an archangel." It was too funny, it really was, We could not help laughing. The speaker was stout, or to use an expr: term, "podgy." We positively could not imagine him an archangel. It was too great a strain on us, and. we exploded accordingly. Now. Mr. Editor, will you let me imitate my late tutor? The fancy of yanand your readers is appealed to

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