The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-06-15
Whole Namher 1894

sunny SIDE, or the country Minister'S wife
PEEP AT "NumBER FIvE,r or chapter in
the life of a city Pastor, by the author of Sunny
Side, Kitty Brown, The Tell-Tale or Home
Secrets. &c.
| SHADY Sine, or life in country PARSONAGE. bv a
Pastors wife.
The above entitled Books may be found at Hills
Book isto,e, Rupenna. The following notice of
them We clip from the Oberiin Epangtiis,.
s'Sunny Side''---'sPeep at No 5,.--
''shady Side.'
Ahke. these volumes portray the Interior of the
pastors Life and hbor-fhe things of his home, his
purse. his wife, his children, and his people,
Alike, the picture in each case is drawn by a pas
tors wife, one who known because she has seen.
and sympathized, and felt. The first an,, second
are the reputed VOL 8 of the late and i.mepte d
Mrs. Phelps, daughter of Prof. Stuart, of An,
dover. We are not aware that the au,horess Of
| ''Shady Side" is known TO the public They
known how 10 WELD the pen of "ready writ
err"
| In common, these volumes present the special
trials of pnsors and their households in The line
OF supplies for b. dy and for mind. 1t is we'll that
pastors wives should have a word to say on this
subject. They may help to correct the loose and
somewhat current notion that salaried men are we'll
enough off any how. Persons in whose mind this
notion floats. rarely consider that ministers com
monty begin life pennyless, and more often in debt
than In adVance-that they have imperious wants,
llftlie appreciated by the nasses) in the line of
food for the mind and implements for their work
that, moving in public life US they must, they can
not clothe themselves and their families as COARSE
ly and cheaply as other laborers can:--that
for these and many other reasons, few pastors ev-
er do better than to make the ends meet Oh the an
nual settling day, and. of COURSE they are compe-
Cd to move along through life accommodating nothinp
and barely snbsisting. Yet pastors and their fam-
lies are liable 10 be sick; to be disabled, or.
what is some times even worse to become in the es-
tilnaiion of their people, sno longer useful" and
hence to have their presence become specially un-
But we did NOT intend to touch this part of the
subject. Sufficeit to say that pastors have many
and grievous trials and no men more need abound
ing grace than they-grsee to love, though net
much loved in return, and to labor and suffer
for God and for souls. although s.the more abb n
antiy they love, the less they be loyedp This is a
special sort of mari yrdom in whiclIthe wear and
tear OF nerves and heart strings, goes lingering
4 on Tor months and years, made more irving
both to the flesh and to the spr by the convico
that many of his people neither accept readily the
bread of heaven he offers to them, nor repay him
cheerfully in the bread Of earth. VaIung the
former little and the laiter much. they seem to
assume that as they get on for the presen,
without The bread for the spirit SO can their past
or without his bread for the body. All. little dc
they Know the intense feeling of their pastor as
he says within himself" How gladly would try
some hard experiments in living without mn bread
ifthey would only take heifsr' = e ..---
As to points of dissimiIarty in these volumes.
Sunny Side" gives you n country pastors life, in
one place only, under circumstances fully up 10
t e average in points desirabls TO a pastor
"Peep at Nos gives the city pastor, and what
ever is peculiar in his position, trials and labor
''shady sidy.. presents u, pastors family
four times removed, proving the vicisstudes ol
the country pastor-through scenes of collision
with sehshness ia countless foIms, toillng on ct i
amid alternate hopes and fears, now sustained
aud now depressed; pinched with want--the re-
sources of most excellent wife uniformly tasket
10 the utmost measure of endurance and finally boti
pastor and wife breaking down prematurely ane
tHllng into their graves they hnd reached tllt
meridian of life, leaVing their children to be car
ed for by others, Or to be tossed on the world.
strange waves, uncared for. This is deeply shad
ed-not to say dark but sometimes truth i4,darkel
yet Still. it should be remembered that this i.
pr'fessedly one side only-not general and bal
ar crd view of the whole. Thank Goi, their i.
in all the church some pety, much go,,d sense ant
precious sympathy for their pastors. and even truth
about PASTORS trial should not be SO told as tc
do their people injustice. .s
The Sunny Side'' we admire for fhe beau ifu
family scene which il portrays. Children obediep
andaffectionateio parents-siuguary self denying
and devoted to each others nterests-movin,
, along under the triHls of their common lot eacl
bearing anoihers burdens with light and oyou
heart;-we loveihe picture, and pravthat earth ma,
have many thousand such families. Happy tn
pastor who is 10 such easel Such development
E in pastor's household are themselves enough t
constitute Sunny Side" in any life, how eve
dark. 7
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