Word: clergyman
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...trip is via the Great Northern Railway lines, whose engines snort with brisk Ulster efficiency from the lazy glens of Antrim past the Mountains of Mourne. G.N.R. trains cross the border between Northern Ireland and the south up to 50 times a day. Despite the anguished howls of a clergyman who shouted at its first run: "You are transporting the souls of otherwise good folk to the devil," Irishmen, both Catholic and Protestant, have ridden the Great Northern's 543 miles of track for 77 years with no more protection than a penny tossed into the Boyne for good...
...Ambassador to Ethiopia: Dr. Joseph Simonson, 49, a Lutheran clergyman from Glen Cove...
...could live my life again, I don't think I should be a clergyman ... I have never been happy about the Church of England. Perhaps it will be said of me that as I grew older I became a better Christian and a worse churchman ... I do not love the human race. I have loved just a few of them. The rest are a pretty mixed...
Penelope's papa was a Church of England clergyman "of a type now nearly extinct, low church, bigoted, and opposed to every kind of enjoyment." Ecclesiastes was his Bible; when Penelope spoke to a stranger, her father rebuked her in his own didactic paraphrases, saying: "If thy daughter be shameless, keep her in straitly." He refused her a piano ("Wine and music will rejoice the heart, but the love of wisdom is above them both") and kept her from the village fair ("Who so taketh pleasure in wickedness shall be condemned...
...Penelope's subsequent running fight with the Church of England (only to be recaptured by her husband in the end) makes up the remainder of Benefit of Clergy, the best of the five short stories in this collection. But Penelope's astonishment at finding her husband a clergyman is as nothing compared to the reader's at finding Philosopher Bertrand Russell a short-story writer. Even Russell himself cannot explain why, in his 80s, he has suddenly turned fictioneer: "For some reason entirely unknown to me I suddenly wished to write the stories in this volume, although...