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Confession in the Christial church was more of a one-on-one with a clergyman, seeking guidance as well as absolution
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The clergyman, whose name was Rignslin, examined Ayrim, but reported, “I see nothing wrong with the child that a little sleep will not cure
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The ambition of every clergyman naturally led him to pay court, not so much to his sovereign as to his own order, from which only he could expect preferment
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How dangerous must it have been for the sovereign to attempt to punish a clergyman for any crime whatever, if his order were disposed to protect him, and to represent either the proof as insufficient for convicting so holy a man, or the punishment as too severe to be inflicted upon one whose person had been rendered sacred by religion ? The sovereign could, in such circumstances, do no better than leave him to be tried by the ecclesiastical courts, who, for the honour of their own order, were interested to restrain, as much as possible, every member of it from committing enormous crimes, or even from giving occasion to such gross scandal as might disgust the minds of the people
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But in a clergyman, this train of life not only consumes the time which ought to be employed in the duties of his function, but in the eyes of the common people, destroys almost entirely that sanctity of character, which can alone enable him to perform those duties with proper weight and authority
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“The monk looked around him, the tiny room was scarcely illuminated by the sheen of a candle, and books spread by all corners were projecting their silhouettes enlarged on the ungraceful stucco of the clay walls, silent witnesses of the thousands of minutes that the clergyman had dedicated to the study of the magic
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- The clergyman was saved! - He said in rustles
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Interrupted of the pleasures of his lunch, the clergyman walked without any delay towards the main street, maintaining still in his palate the delicate sweetness of half-chewed banana slice
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Then dragging Steve away from his local clergyman as politely as possible and depositing him in the passenger seat of the car, Chris jumped into the drivers seat and slid the stick into first gear and headed off for one of the best afternoons he could ever remember
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An old clergyman once told me that when you leave the
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“That old clergyman told me that when a person leaves
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had seen the clergyman on the local Kansas City television
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reporter had asked the clergyman
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One Sunday noon just after the mass, three villagers invited the clergyman to have a drink with them in a rickety hut owned by one of them
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Worried that they might not attend the mass on the following Sunday, the clergyman accepted the thoughtful invitation
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" said the clergyman
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The clergyman shook his head and went on walking to the chapel to get his things
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He also respected the clergyman and maybe he would also punish it the way the drunks did
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When the clergyman appeared on the chapel's gates in the mid-morning, the villagers were formally seated in with their casual attire
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The clergyman started the mass
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Finally, the clergyman ended the mass with the sign of the cross and a holy word of 'bringing Christ home'
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The three villagers were disappointed but it was concealed in their faces until the clergyman was out of the chapel and silence roamed around them
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murder of the clergyman early that morning and the death
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accompanying the corpse of the clergyman who had died in
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clergyman’s death after the clergyman had died, Bill was
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It seemed incongruous to Bill that the clergyman had
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clergyman his last rites
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“We have a clergyman down on the floor and I think he’s
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believed himself to be a clergyman with the heart of a
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“Reverend will do,” the Protestant clergyman corrected
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“And, how can I help you?” The clergyman recognized One Shoe as the town drunk, knowing the man had a serious drinking problem
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Now, he felt a bit embarrassed of being duped—and by a clergyman, no less—and very conspicuous
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Unfortunately there are many religious who feel that same way or come across in their feelings as this clergyman
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They are often far too ready to believe it, and foolishly try to supply the hunger of their souls by extravagantly frequent reception of the Lord's Supper, and submitting to the spiritual directorship of some clergyman
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There are probably 500 laymen in proportion to each clergyman
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Let every patron be required to send the name of the clergyman whom he wishes to nominate to a vacant living, to the churchwardens, one month before he presents the name to the bishop
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To say that infant baptism confers grace mechanically, as a chemical solution produces an effect on a photographic plate, and that if water and certain words are used by a thoughtless, careless clergyman over the child of thoughtless, ignorant parents, the child is at once born again,-to say, furthermore, that an immense spiritual effect is produced by baptism when no effect whatever can be seen,�all this, to many thinking persons, seems calculated to degrade baptism! It tends to make observers suppose that baptism is useless, or that regeneration means nothing at all
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Whether that blessed ordinance is to be regarded as a sacrifice or not, whether the Lord's Table is an altar or not, whether the officiating clergyman is a sacrificing priest or not,�whether there is a corporal, material presence of Christ's body and blood in the consecrated elements of bread and wine or not,�whether these elements and the Lord's Table ought to be regarded with as much lowly reverence and honour as if Christ was bodily present or not,�all these are questions which are continually coming to the front
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" when there is no peace, and insisting that every "earnest" clergyman should be allowed to" do what is right in his own eyes, to break the law, and to be let alone
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When a clergyman with only one curate has to give the elements of bread and wine to 300 or 400 persons, the service must necessarily be so long, that aged and delicate people are wearied, and any following service is interfered with, or prevented altogether
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Does any clergyman literally obey all the rubrics of the Communion Service in the Prayer Book?
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The clergyman who persists in using these illegal ceremonial acts, in defiance of his bishop's monitions, causes divisions, offences, strife, and controversy in the Church about things not essential, and is justly deserving of censure
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"It is not lawful for a clergyman to teach that the sacrifice and offering of Christ upon the cross, or the redemption, propitiation, or satisfaction wrought by it, is or can be repeated in the ordinance of the Lord's Supper; nor that in that ordinance there is or can be any sacrifice or offering of Christ which is efficacious in the sense in which Christ's death is efficacious, to procure the remission of guilt or punishment of sins
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A traditional Muslim clergyman admires the Quran above everything else and dedicates his life to it, even though more often than not he has to work for very low pay
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that Harriman’s father was a poor clergyman with a salary of only $200
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"Pastor! Are you alright?" he asked the confused clergyman
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Fear, love, anger--they all dwell in it now, all brought into it by him, all coming out of the mixture, so innocuous one would think, so likely, one would think, to produce only the fruits of the spirit,--the mixture of two widows and one clergyman
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And Audrey too was lucky, for marrying him she had been rescued from some clergyman
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Not perhaps unto seventy times seven--" here part of the wreckage of a clergyman called Hyslup, who for a short time was an intimate friend (chronologically he came somewhere between Lanks and Dwight, though she never could remember exactly where, and represented her sole excursion into the preserves of clerics), floated to the surface of her mind--"because he hadn't worked through as many as seventy-seven typists then, but I forgave him at least six of them
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In Bethnal Green that evening, a place Fanny was bound to pass through, the clergyman called Hyslup, in whom she had once been interested because he loved her so much and had a golden voice, was holding a mission service; it being Lent, and he being zealous
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Perhaps she hadn't taken enough pains to help him to self-expression, he being very much outside her usual circle, an obscure young clergyman from Kensington, met at a bazaar, and only invited to her house because of his manifest, touching devotion, and the really lovely way he said How do you do and Good-bye
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She had an aunt who married a clergyman, and he wore cassocks too, and on Fridays and in Lent would hardly eat a thing, and then was so cross nobody could stay in the same room
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From the most miserable creature on earth, a clergyman enthralled by a woman not his wife, she had set him on his feet, restored him to what he had always known was his special gift, the power to move multitudes, and been the real cause, strange though it might seem, that he could now, single-mindedly, devote himself to God
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Astonished at the spectacle of a clergyman in such headlong descent, she had stood and stared
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She knew what must have happened, and she oughtn't really, she told herself, to have been astonished, but he was the first clergyman she had seen in this, to her, familiar situation, and perhaps it was the contrast between his collar and his plight which transfixed her
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It was ten years ago that Miles went out one afternoon a clergyman, and came back a priest
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A clergyman, too; and one that had lunched in Charles Street
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How glad she was she wasn't tied up to a fanatical clergyman
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An ordinary, curate-sort of young clergyman
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Just a clergyman, and conspicuous for that reason in Fanny's crowd
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These were great things in a clergyman, and should not lightly be let go
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A local clergyman would officiate at the graveside service
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Dobson, and the hôtel, in which English Church services were held, and which was at that moment, though the season was over, being stayed in by several representative English spinsters, and a clergyman also from England with a wife and grown-up daughters, most respectable nice ladies who all took him out every day twice, once after breakfast and once after tea, for a little walk--the hôtel decided, putting its heads together in the manager's office, that it would, using tact, encourage the Dobsons to depart
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In the field of religion, the world cries out for the clergyman who can teach his
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Wherever he called, the priest, or monk or other clergyman was sympathetic to his requests for old documents but, sadly, unable to come up with any that would help his search
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If a Clergyman should bring evidence of some miracle healing that took place, and he could not
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If a Clergyman should bring evidence of some miracle healing that took place, and he could not repeat
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Finally, it seems, the frock makes the clergyman
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rather dance with a clergyman than go trout fishing
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’ Can one even imagine a modern clergyman who believed that in Baptism the gift of Spiritual Regeneration was bestowed, 'thanking God,’for any reason, that he had not bestowed it
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The townlet contained nothing higher than the clergyman
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Later on the clergyman came and talked softly with her
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The idea of Edward's being a clergyman, and living in a small parsonage-house, diverted him beyond measure;--and when to that was added the fanciful imagery of Edward reading prayers in a white surplice, and publishing the banns of marriage between John Smith and Mary Brown, he could conceive nothing more ridiculous
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John Starr, the young clergyman who was going to be their minister for the next few weeks during the absence of their regular shepherd, Mr Belcher, who was going away for a holiday for the benefit of his health
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A person resembling a poor clergyman or a poor actor appeared in the doorway
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Being a clergyman, and because he said he wanted it for a charitable purpose, of course he obtained the timber very cheaply - for about half what anyone else would have had to pay for it
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" The noble boy in the ancestral boots was inconsistent, representing himself, as it were in one breath, as an able seaman, a strolling actor, a grave-digger, a clergyman, and a person of the utmost importance at a Court fencing-match, on the authority of whose practised eye and nice discrimination the finest strokes were judged
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After a wait of about ten minutes, the clergyman entered and, at once proceeding to the desk, began to recite in a rapid and wholly unintelligible manner the usual office
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From time to time as this miserable mockery proceeded the clerk in the rusty black cassock mechanically droned out a sonorous `Ah-men', and after the conclusion of the lesson the clergyman went out of the church, taking a short cut through the grave-stones and monuments, while the bearers again shouldered the coffin and followed the clerk to the grave
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When they arrived within a few yards of their destination, they were rejoined by the clergyman, who was waiting for them at the corner of one of the paths
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The earth fell from the clerk's hand and rattled on the lid of the coffin with a mournful sound, and when the clergyman had finished repeating the remainder of the service, he turned and walked away in the direction of the church
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The clerk and clergyman then appearing, we were ranged in order at those fatal rails
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Upon which, the clergyman said again, "WHO giveth this woman to be married to this man?" The old gentleman being still in a state of most estimable unconsciousness, the bridegroom cried out in his accustomed voice, "Now Aged P
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you know; who giveth?" To which the Aged replied with great briskness, before saying that he gave, "All right, John, all right, my boy!" And the clergyman came to so gloomy a pause upon it, that I had doubts for the moment whether we should get completely married that day
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find it difficult to survive as a clergyman after that
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The old clergyman, nurtured at the rich bosom of the English Church, had a long-established and legitimate taste for all good and comfortable things; and however stern he might show himself in the pulpit, or in his public reproof of such transgressions as that of Hester Prynne, still the genial benevolence of his private life had won him warmer affection than was accorded to any of his professional contemporaries
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“I will not give her up!”—And here, by a sudden impulse, she turned to the young clergyman, Mr
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This idea was countenanced by the strong interest which the physician ever manifested in the young clergyman; he attached himself to him as a parishioner, and sought to win a friendly regard and confidence from his naturally reserved sensibility
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Here the pale clergyman piled up his library, rich with parchment-bound folios of the Fathers, and the lore of Rabbis, and monkish erudition, of which the Protestant divines, even while they vilified and decried that class of writers, were yet constrained often to avail themselves
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“They mostly do,” said the clergyman, griping hard at his breast as if afflicted with an importunate throb of pain
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“It may be so,” said the young clergyman, indifferently, as waiving a discussion that he considered irrelevant or unseasonable
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The sensitive clergyman shrunk, with nervous dread, from the light missile
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“I do verily believe it,” answered the clergyman
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“I did,” answered the clergyman, “and would gladly learn it
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The young clergyman, after a few hours of privacy, was sensible that the disorder of his nerves had hurried him into an unseemly outbreak of temper, which there had been nothing in the physician's words to excuse or palliate
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clergyman and the physician, though externally the same, was
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Would he arouse him with a throb of agony? The victim was forever on the rack; it needed only to know the spring that controlled the engine;—and the physician knew it well! Would he startle him with sudden fear? As at the waving of a magician's wand, uprose a grisly phantom,—uprose a thousand phantoms,—in many shapes, of death, or more awful shame, all flocking round about the clergyman, and pointing with their fingers at his breast!
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They deemed the young clergyman a miracle of holiness
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Gardner I hope hell come on Monday as he said at the same time four I hate people who come at all hours answer the door you think its the vegetables then its somebody and you all undressed or the door of the filthy sloppy kitchen blows open the day old frostyface Goodwin called about the concert in Lombard street and I just after dinner all flushed and tossed with boiling old stew dont look at me professor I had to say Im a fright yes but he was a real old gent in his way it was impossible to be more respectful nobody to say youre out you have to peep out through the blind like the messengerboy today I thought it was a putoff first him sending the port and the peaches first and I was just beginning to yawn with nerves thinking he was trying to make a fool of me when I knew his tattarrattat at the door he must have been a bit late because it was l/4 after 3 when I saw the 2 Dedalus girls coming from school I never know the time even that watch he gave me never seems to go properly Id want to get it looked after when I threw the penny to that lame sailor for England home and beauty when I was whistling there is a charming girl I love and I hadnt even put on my clean shift or powdered myself or a thing then this day week were to go to Belfast just as well he has to go to Ennis his fathers anniversary the 27th it wouldnt be pleasant if he did suppose our rooms at the hotel were beside each other and any fooling went on in the newbed I couldnt tell him to stop and not bother me with him in the next room or perhaps some protestant clergyman with a cough knocking on the wall then hed never believe the next day we didnt do something its all very well a husband but you cant fool a lover after me telling him we never did anything of course he didnt believe me no its better hes going where he is besides something always happens with him the time going to the Mallow concert at Maryborough ordering boiling soup for the two of us then the bell rang out he walks down the platform with the soup splashing about taking spoonfuls of it hadnt he the nerve and the waiter after him making a holy show of us screeching and confusion for the engine to start but he wouldnt pay till he finished it the two gentlemen in the 3rd class carriage said he was quite right so he was too hes so pigheaded sometimes when he gets a thing into his head a good job he was able to open the carriage door with his knife or theyd have taken us on to Cork I suppose that was done out of revenge on him O I love jaunting in a train or a car with lovely soft cushions I wonder will he take a 1st class for me he might want to do it in the train by tipping the guard well O I suppose therell be the usual idiots of men gaping at us with their eyes as stupid as ever they can possibly be that was an exceptional man that common workman that left us alone in the carriage that day going to Howth Id like to find out something about him l or 2 tunnels perhaps then you have to look out of the window all the nicer then coming back suppose I never came back what would they say eloped with him that gets you on on the stage the last concert I sang at where its over a year ago when was it St Teresas hall Clarendon St little chits of missies they have now singing Kathleen Kearney and her like on account of father being in the army and my singing the absentminded beggar and wearing a brooch for Lord Roberts when I had the map of it all and Poldy not Irish enough was it him managed it this time I wouldnt put it past him like he got me on to sing in the Stabat Mater by going around saying he was putting Lead Kindly Light to music I put him up to that till the jesuits found out he was a freemason thumping the piano lead Thou me on copied from some old opera yes and he was
