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from "Harold Walker" contains these words:

Should I bring a few extra farthings as a tip for his worship...after all I
do remember 'summat' about the widow's mite....H

If you've got any, but mites are half-farthings. Play your cards right
and dress snappily and the widow might...

Maybe he might donate to my church even tho it has been somewhat 'at rest'
for many a year....oh yes, I do have a church with members... perhaps did
would be a better word....mail order church...had fun with that a number of
years ago...a fellow out in California that claimed he could neither read
nor write but could preach established what is known as the Universal Life
Church....millions joined it.....it did have some distinct advantages which
the internal revenue did not like so the church landed up in
court...eventually the case landed up in the Supreme Court of the USA...the
ruling was that it was a legitimate church and the Internal Revenue service
was ordered to leave us alone and do our thing.....I still have a valid
Press Pass from "our" church but of course no longer think of using
it....have an Honary D. D. (that was expensive...cost me all of
$25.00).....also a minister with all of the so called priveledges of any
other minister...free to marry folk etc. and accept their confessions
etc.....also a Bishop in the church (inactive of course)....as with the
masonic order once a mason always a mason and thus once a minister always a
minister unless defrocked and such a good boy as I defrocking would never
take place. Enough of that and now must get back to my bread baking.....H

Many, many years ago, we had a new minister inducted, and the weather
was scorching and humid. Many years later he confessed that it was just
as well he wasn't unfrocked on that occasion...

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