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PASQUIN: Pastoral, Mineral, and Agricultural Advocate.
Fix this textVol. lII.]
Fix this textSATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1869.
Fix this textPREACHING AND POLITICS.
Fix this textNearly on the same page we find an address from our pulpit
Fix this textacquaintance Jefferis, and another from our political friend
Fix this textGladstone.
Fix this textJefferis has been to Rome, and wasn’t wanted ; and Gladstone
Fix this textgoes to south-west Lancashire, and he, it seems, isn’t wanted
Fix this texteither.
Fix this textThere is a considerable talking likeness between Jefferis and
Fix this textGladstone. The politician would have shone in the conventicle,
Fix this textand brother Jefferis would shine anywhere—like a copper dollar.
Fix this textGladstone’s address to S. L. is just the cut of a local
Fix this textpreacher’s sermon —a copious flow of words without a fraction
Fix this textof meaning. Gladstone himself is the facsimile of a field
Fix this textpreacher, in appearance, manner, and voice. When he rises in
Fix this textthe House, you expect to hear him drawl out the 8,763 rd verse
Fix this textof the devil’s destruction—pig and whistle metre.
Fix this textThe address is a fair sample of Billy’s style, though, if any-
Fix this textthing, having more direct reference to a purpose or proposition
Fix this textof some kind or other than he feels it safe to mention in Parlia-
Fix this textment, e.g., “ The rejection of this proposal by Parliament under
Fix this textthe menace of the Government to drop the Bill if it were carried,
Fix this texthas led to grievous inconvenience and vexation in a large
Fix this textnumber of populous and influential boroughs. These, you will
Fix this textreadily believe, that we, who struggle hard to avert them, shall
Fix this textbe not less anxious, under more favorable auspices to remove.”
Fix this textIn this way, Billy is contented to maunder on for hours in a
Fix this textflood of words that would choke a horse, but delivered with so
Fix this textmuch emphasis and impressement, that the chawbacons, duffers,
Fix this textand mokes, who listen with their mouths wide open, are frantic
Fix this textwith delight at hearing nothing, well said.
Fix this textTo compare Gladstone’s address with more profound emana-
Fix this texttions, it in a measure resembles the solemn and sententious
Fix this textobservations of the Caliph in the telegrams from Arabia, which,
Fix this textby-the-bye, we fear will not be so regular or so correct now that
Fix this textthe Chief Inspector of Lines and Stations has been “ retrenched ”
Fix this textfrom the department.
Fix this textVery much in the same see-saw twaddling style is our
Fix this textreverend’s “impression of modern Rome.” Eirst he laments
Fix this textthat his “ return is uncertain.” Who cares ? Then he has “ come
Fix this textsouthwards, partly for the sake of the glorious monuments of
Fix this textthe past.” Very kind of him—but if the monuments don’t care,
Fix this textneither do I. “About Pagan antiquities you will not care to
Fix this texthear.” Why not I—isn’t “ Pasquin ” a Pagan antiquity ?
Fix this textWell, then he goes blundering into the Sistine Chapel,
Fix this text“ dressed just as I am when preaching to you.” The gar of
Fix this textsin may be worn in a sinful place, but when in Rome you must
Fix this textconduct yourself like a Roman, specially at the religious
Fix this textfestivals. . „
Fix this textWhat sort of a rig was worn “ when preaching to you
Fix this textgoodness gracious knows —whether the mantle of a prophet, or
Fix this textthe breeks of a Highlander—or the gumleaf small clothes of a
Fix this textblackfellow, we don’t know. All these combined would be
Fix this texteffective and evangelizing. Perhaps that was the arrangement
Fix this text—who knows 1
Fix this textWell, whatever outrageous garments poor Jefferis had twisted
Fix this textabout his holy carcase, he astonished the Papal guard. Black-
Fix this textfellow’s knee-breeches or Elijah’s monkey-jacket was no odds to
Fix this textthem. His appearance they thought calculated to turn the
Fix this textholy-water sour, and therefore he was ejected; cast out, in fact,
Fix this textlike the devil that got among the pigs on the Sea of Galilee.
Fix this textThe good man expresses his indignation in a very impressive
Fix this textmanner, and declares solemnly that “ he has a just and con-
Fix this textstitutional repugnance to a coat with swallow tails.” Jones has
Fix this textreligious scruples in regard of oysters, therefore, the liberty of
Fix this textthe subject might be imperilled by a jacket split up behind.
Fix this textConscientious objections even in the matter of hats are to be
Fix this textrespected. Mr. Arthur Blyth foreswore gloves in the days of
Fix this textH.R.H., and Reverend Jefferis refuses to imperil his everlasting
Fix this texthappiness in evening habiliments. He says—“ I thought I was
Fix this textdecently apparelled; but though I have no objection to go to
Fix this textParadise in a pea-jacket, I must decline to go the devil in a
Fix this textdress coat.”
Fix this textThe conventicle is, perhaps, a little squeamish on matters of
Fix this textno vast ulterior importance. When St. Paul was in Rome, it is
Fix this textreported he went about in a claw-hammer coat and brass buttons,
Fix this texthat and umbrella, like a Christian, and made no shindy what-
Fix this textever, except when the station-master detained his carpet-bag and
Fix this textrailway-rug at Ephesus, which was excusable under the circum-
Fix this textstances.
Fix this textThe sad consequences which Jefferis forbodes will arise from
Fix this texthis expulsion at the Sistine gates, are of a very serious and com-
Fix this textprehensive nature. “I feel that there is associated with this
Fix this textincident a profound meaning. Rome is converging towards her
Fix this textdecline 1 I Come, Gladstone, you can’t beat that.
Fix this textBorne shall perish—the Papacy pass away, because —Jefferis
Fix this textobjects to wear a tail. “The stern simplicity of her days of
Fix this textstrength is gone.” A very considerable time ago, I think, if
Fix this texthistory is up to the mark. Jefferis, the Goth of the gospel shop,
Fix this texthas decreed the eternal city to desolation. He has seen her
Fix this textsplendor, her crosses, her churches, and cardinals, and Sistine
Fix this textChapels, and his soul coveteth the plunder thereof.
Fix this text“ Her churches are loaded with an ever-increasing display of
Fix this textmeretricious ornament, like the dissenting chapels of Adelaide.”
Fix this textOnly, he might have added, the one is the beauty of high art,
Fix this textthe other the vulgarity of the gutter. However, he decrees that
Fix this textRome totters to her downfall, because he has a constitutional
Fix this textobjection to wear tails to his coat. Jefferis, my son, when the
Fix this textmillennium sets in with a hot wind, and we all go to pot, you
Fix this textand I shall both wear a tail in the halls of Eblis. Why then
Fix this textkick up a row about a trifle which circumstances will smooth
Fix this textaway for you in a few years more or less ?
Fix this textWhy quarrel with the Pope because he wished to see a caudal
Fix this textapoendage to your vestments, emblematic of better things to
Fix this textcome, where neither moth nor rust shall damage your garments.
Fix this textAs a’parson, they will give you two tails in the other place, and
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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