Rebuked From The Pulpit

Preaching in the abbey Canon Wilberforce told a good story of the celebrated Welsh preacher, Christmas Evans, who dared publicly to express his thankfulness for Jenny Lind's beautifnl singing. A member of his congregation, a straitlaced Calvinist, standing on the steps of the pulpit, asked the preacher whether a man dying at one of Jenny Lind's concerts would go to heaven. "Sir," replied Mr. Evans, "a Christiau wil! go to heaven wherever he dies, but a fooi remains a fooi even on the pulpit steps. " Even the sober abbey congregation could hardly stifle its enjoyment of this