"Until recently, it was the habit of preachers to enumerate the points they made in their sermon. The..."

By: vivian on domingo, setembro 09, 2018

“Until recently, it was the habit of preachers to enumerate the points they made in their sermon. The phrase ‘fifthly and lastly, dear brethren’, or whatever number it was, was a familiar one to churchgoers. St Mary Magdalen Church in Bermondsey Street, London, once had a Puritan preacher who, some four hundred years ago, preached a sermon from sixty pages of notes concluding with the words ‘one hundred and seventhly and lastly, dear brethren.’”

- N.T.P. Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook, 2013

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