The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1851-01-31
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lie cant always wl,e and preach elOqu. mt
sermons There aie lew eloquent writers,
ana Sill lever eloquent speakers. Ii Is Oh
ihe Whole great blessing 10 the Church that
~ - 50; ior Divine truth appears best IN "A
simple safb; aud the most useful pastors have
oeen those. gent rally, whose names have
never at'alied 10 ANY Iiilng like hoiorieiy.-
but WIN The power 10 be elGqueni-using
Una Term III The popular acce station. bs sense
! oil duty wonid oOige i'm ~ sacrifice popu-
ldrliy 10 useinitIess. Comparing himself WIN
himself. iaat Is i'teiiectudly, ti.c mialster Is
not dD'e 10 De alike interesting IN las sermons.
Some discourses must he northumberland by
"a cerlaii Glass oil hearers they vii I've called
dry olIieEs must DC eAp0sIiOTy, AMI by au-
DINER chiss-i'iose who 20 I'D church more
Tor amusement Than Instruction thcsc will
be considered tedious. Besides lie minister
1 Is but MAJ; feeling souttlmes il The mood
/ Tor study, aiid al other times utmost incaI,a-
bic OF All lnlel.ec ual ,ilori. HIS sedrniary
lie renders lin peculiarly Ii be 10 nervous
depre ssioD, headache aud indigestion. these
affect the niid and render. study. at times
almost OCT oil the Question: Sill he is tx
pec,ed Il he Just DIS Interesting at one time
as another .liow unfeason bic 4! AydIn:-
lie cannot always leei equally interested in
the delivery ofhi scgunJn. There are cub IT,.
Causes at work 10 deadra ietimg and what
he has prepared wit. great .ins;y y. may be- de-
ivered ~ d heariess InaBaer. l. this und n
his olra control! Every minister vii say
may. Hence. sermons that COST Dnt l,Ile stud !.
delivered uader slate 81 excIiemsnt-wlli
o,e.i be more admired, and talked OF, Than
those which cost vastly more effort, but which
unlapptly have been pronounced with less
feeling. Thea again, his congregation is
! thin, when he expected to see II iull-Or those
are absent Tor whose ej..ratlon especially tue
discourse was prepared; and are not these
circumstances calculated 10 depress the mind
How. then. can II oe expected: that minus erS
should always pre1ciIi1tero sling and eiUquei,
sermons.
Another TIL = which ministers cart do is
10 visit as much as the people expect. This
Will always be- ii s,anilug Charge against
them. Uniil they can srt ID power Oi ubqnl-
-. see not how inIs expectation can he met.
iislX months. or even three sometimes elapse,
They are st!luitd with the declaration, WAY.
what a stranger you arr We Thought You
had forgotten. US Now III iInidi tnat # :,
mlulsler esyrcialiy IA a Urge ciiy rOngregi-
ton. attends 10 til INC stch, Ilr Urrtdved stsid
serious iugurrrs. with grcal L,unc'u,ity aud
f;,jtiinlti. 81. the resi- Of tt: congregation
should acceptd WISH whenever II ciu cU.Wt
nicihiy b. nhdr.
Sill a other thing which ministers cart Il ;
1. e. trdie irita eeeryboiy IN the c0agregG-
flOa. La almost every congrv gsi on there
aIe sercra %! The sam; occupation, uncertainties
or merchants. making or .eti1g what Il mir
i.t-rs family must necessarily consumc.-
Now some are -o uureasOIibc as 10 think
that ii u mister should spend ,he piitince that
Il il allowed him, entirely w,'hin the congregt-
to-; and il, IA preference is ven 10 others, il
l. sOmetlin gronlnl vi mortal offence. Tbs
expectltloi vr OBJ afInn. ne some would con-
slider IL, ap,.l ~ les 10 cities Than tte couairy
towns. Dul what shail poor minister do
when even hls own congregation n has
got to make Il selection! alas ijr him some
nody must be preferred. How nicely some
tlmcs has he 10 ADJUST his patronage. for tear
OF, .vins o.iencr. Now tbs Is slavery
Every aohle mnd viii pro ounce il suca.-
LET tie minister have spme nd tpenieice ia
the mati.r->pr..! his moary wbrfr he
pleas s..ivc II away 10 whom an for what lie
picase- do jIst ia ih,se respects, any otil-
or man in ine congrrg tiion takes the llb rly
OF DONG. But enoh4h; it will br -viieD' from
what Ias been std ihat there are some
things winch men are APT To txrect from he
minister, winch iic cannot do Puritan Re
corIler