An Old Bequest

Under an old bequest, half a guinea is left for the annual sermón at Terrington, in Norfolk, England. According to the London Chrlstian World nobody went to hear it last year, and the vicar took the sermón home unpreached. The trustees refused thereon to pay him the half guinea. This year the sermón was duly preached, but the trustees still held back the half guinea, professing fear lest, the vicar himself being a trustee, the payment might be illegal. The vicar sued for a guinea, both for last year's sermón and this, in the King's Lynn County Court, and the judge ordered the money to be jaid. He only allowed half a guinea costs, however, on the ground that the vicar ought to have preached last year, whether there was anybody to hear the sermón or not.