That Artful Vicar, Vol. 1 of 2 : The Story of What a Clergyman Tried to Do for Others and Did for Himself (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from That Artful Vicar, Vol. 1 of 2: The Story of What a Clergyman Tried to Do for Others and Did for Himself

However, it was a great point to have fas tened upon two ultimate candidates and these they were - the Rev. Joel Fulmouth, m.a., and the Very Rev. Noel Drinkdew, D.D. At the invitation of Mr. Brindle, the Mayor, both divines were requested to come down to Stil borough On whit-monday, and preach, in order that the scale of their evenly-balanced merits might be turned by the tongue of the most eloquent. Some carping spirits did indeed urge that to set two clergymen preaching about at each other for a prize of 10001. A year was an expe dient of questionable edification; but the con tending parties themselves seemed to be troubled with no questions on this head, and each arrived at the 'red Lion' of Stilborough carrying a carpet-bag, a carefully-written sermon, anda lively confidence in his own success.

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