最糟的牧师 different, farewell, moving, before, making

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While I was making farewell visits before moving to a new parish, an elderly member of the congregation paid me the compliment of suggesting that my successor would not be as good as I had been.
"Nonsense," I replied, flattered.
"No, really," he insisted. "I've lived here under five different ministers, and each new one has been worse than the last."