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MG-A(G.753.048
27 Dec 1753:12,13 (451)
Edinburg, October 6. . . [4 lines of a letter from Paris
describing the efforts of a missionary sent to Languedoc to
convert the Hugenots] . . . After the bell was rung in, he
enters the church and only finds in it five or six persons.
Nevertheless he goes up to the pulpit, and sits down for a
considerable time to wait the conveening of his audience.
No more of them appearing, at last he pulls a flute from his
pocket, and very gravely begins to play a tune. One of his
little congregation goes out of the church, and acquaints
the people that the missionary priest was gone mad, and that
he was playing on the flute in the pulpit. The oddness of
the thing made the church fill in a short time and he
continuing still playing, until it was so full that they
were sitting on one another; then he gave a sign to shut all
the doors, that none of them should escape, and solemnized
them for seven hours without intermission.
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