The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1828-10-02
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= INISTERIA. SUFFERINGS.

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A Congregational Minister in Vermont,
who has received $25 year from the Do
mes ic Missionary Society of that State,
gave the following account Of his income
to the Directors.
81 claim nothing by way Of merit, and
with the blessing OF Providence, my ne
cessilieS and those of my family will be
supplied. But, while am in my present
situation. they must be supplied principally
by my own nGustry-sOmewha to the neg
iect Of ministerial labors.
"The number of subscribers to my sup
port is II. These pay according to their
ability from 81 10 S. annually in produce,
making $74 from this source. | have
also small farm rent-free for two years
past, and secured for two to come-for
which the sum of twenty dollars, annually,
in grain, has been paid.-I had wild land
also in my settlement, which has produced
nothing worth naming as yet. The only
money receive for my salary from the
people is eLeUen dollars, annually. The
whole then may be fairly estimated at $1O5
dollars. The rest OF my support is made
upby free donations from the people, and
by my own labor. l do not utter one
complaining word, because my people do
according 10 their ability, and because I
believe the Lord has called me to labor
here-where | am willing to spe.ld my
days."
OF The people of his charge, the min
ister's wife wrote as follows. yesterday
went out to visit some poor families be-
longing to our parish. My feelings were
unusual. Indeed it would be impossible
for you, Sir, situated where you are, to-
conceive what privations they daily suffer.
To mention nothing with regard to their|
food, (which know must be coarse and
scanty) their houses, which are almost des-
titute of furniture, and some of them with
out chimnies, are unable to shield them
from the piercing storms of winter,or make
their situation comfortable even for an
hour. And yet, Sir, these families contri-
butte "the widows mite" for the support of
the Gospel and | confess when return
ed home and sat down to my own tea-ta-
BILE, felt as if it was almost wrong in me
to enjoy the comforts OF life, when they
had been in part furnished by those indi-
gent but pIous families"
Some tracts carried from the city, were
given 10 a man at Orangeburg, who habitu-
ally INDUCED in gross lntoxication. About
three weeks from the time of receiving
them, he called on the family who had put
them into his hands, thanked them very
heartily for their kindness, and stated, not
IL. had lu.>t, Of
the use of ardent spirits, but that he indul- (
ged the hope that the tracts had been bles-
sed to the salvation of his soul that by
the grace of God he had commenced al,o-
gether new LIE. The family have affir-
med, thai his appearance, aud s far an
they know, MS conduct, correspond with
his assertions.
Another instance will show the estima-
ton in which tracts are held in the inte-
rior. A .en.cm n passing t'om his place
through NORM Carolina, took a bundle of!
Tracts, and ado, ed he practice, wherev-
er he Speu IN. nl,n OF laying out some,
in such manner Ina The family might Pc
ruse them in .he evening, if they chose, and
Ofleavlng lew In the morning where they
were acceptable. When his stock was al
most exhausted, as he was gathering them
up one morning, he remarked to ii young
lady standing by, that he had few Tracts
left, but he would leave part of them, i'll
they would accept them, and handed her
one, that he thought suitable.-She replied
that she would prefer one or two of the
others, if equally agreeable to him, as she
had that one already. The lady of the
house then observed, that her daughter,
fearing the gentleman would not be able to
leave that Tract, had sat up nearly the
sOhoIe night in copying 1t. This fact needs
no illustration. Am. 1r. Mag.
THE THEATRE.
MEssRs. EDIroRs.-I offer you for pub
LEGATION the following thoughts of Massillon
on the Theatre, which l do not recollect
to have seen in our language. They are
from his famous sermon on ''the small
number of the elect" The preacher after
speaking oflhe hindrances to salvationfrom
the world, tile flesh, and the devi!, breaks
out in the following strain. URBANUs.
Silence we have an obvious answer to a
great many inquiries. You are continual
ly asking us, whether theatrical exhibi-
tons and other public amuSemenis are in