[Magdalen] On a humorous note

[Kate Conant]

Was the warden reading in Hebrew or Greek?

"What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and walk
humbly with your God?"
Micah 6:8

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> On 10/10/2015 20:23, Jim Guthrie wrote:
>
>>
>> We has someone at Christ Church Bay Ridge who was adamant that all hymns
>> be sung to their "original tunes (and vice versa, he would really fuss at
>> Ton-y-botel without the "original text."
>>
>> So one All Saints, we sang "For All the Saint" to the tune Engelberg.
>> "That's not what I meant!" the guy fumed afterwards.
>>
>
> That sounds rather like the churchwarden, who regularly read at Morning
> Prayer, who told the incumbent that the lessons should be the original
> text.  The incumbent agreed and the next Sunday suggested that the
> churchwarden might like to look at the text before the sercice.  "No need"
> was the response.
>
> The vicar insisted he would prefer the warden to comply, so this was
> reluctantly acceded to.  The point was made.
>
> Roger
>