Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-01-07
NEW ENGLAND MINISTER'S.

give but an extract SAID:
"In early times the ministerial function was diff
fcrent from what IL is now IL is now our business
to preach on the Sabbath and to lecture during the
week. and, if we make calls, to make calls of cour-
tesy; but what should do, If | were led back to
the days of the colonies, am at loss to know. /
should be as much puzzled to discharge my duties,
as some Of the clorgymcn of that day would be
standing in my position tonight. How much the
people valued their minister's in their new country
i'm Massachusetts, and COnnecticut--you can inn
aginc, when it is known that they could not get
along without two ministers to each church. In
the first six churches of Connecticut there ten
preachers Each church if possible had teacher
and pastor. The teacher professor of the
ology, and his business was to indoctrinate. The |
other was the revival minister, as We understand
the term. The doctor put the powder down, and
the other man touched It off. In those grand old
times, besides his Sabbath sermons and weekday
lectures, the business of the minister was to gol
from house to house and lecture the inmates Now,
however, that business is entirely transferred to
women. IL was expected, too, that he would adj
dress himself so thoroughly to every individual
that each would stand in fear of God and the min
ister However, let it not be supposed because
clergymcn were earnest and devout religious min
/ isters that they were men devoid of humor. The
man is not half Of a man who has not streak off
| that in him.
"I recolcct even so late rs in my day, that the
! old sort Of ministers of Connecticut could crack
Ijoke, and smoke tobacco in an accomplished man
ner | rccolloct that when they used to meet at my
fathers house, pipes and tobacco were set out and
other creature comforts in proportion, which were
never seen there at any other time. In those times
ii is to be supposed that Providence winkcd at those
things, for certainly they did not know any better
| rccDllect, too, the explosions Of human thunder,
called laughter, which could be heard in the room
filed with smoke, and whore it is supposed the
ministers were; and if any Of you had been listen
ing, as ] was, you would have said that every mo-
/ DI n UutChman.
services were all over for which they had met they
! were accustomed not unlrequenty not only to run
each other with their jokes but with their horses
i 81 have mentioned that that was not altogether
their fault, for it is said that minister's were
accustomed to ride the horses of cergymen visiting
their fathers houses. The horses were not of a
poor byeod either, and the horses getting into bad
habits under the tuelagc of the boys would keep
4 up the habits with their masters on their backs.
Ii was doubles the boys fault and not the clergy
meme. i recOcct once that DR.. Backus, of Beth
lehcm, on returning from my fathers house to his
home was attempted to be passed by man. The
doctor had idea of being beaten, and if he was,
he meant that the man should do it we'll The man
finally that it was impossible to ovcrtake him,
and hallooed at the top of his voice, 'Dr. Backus,
you run if the devil was after you.' Tho doctor
looking around over his shoulder at the man, said
in reply, Il believe he is.'
at has been maxim, that ministers and dea-
cons children are worse than any others. The
Greeks expressed similar opinion. l was inform
ed by my Greek tcacher--who, may say, earned
his money for the services rendercd-that it is
said in Greece, that ministers children are the
DEVILS grandchildren. don't believe a word off
| know who my grandfather was, and am bound
say that ministers children are the best sort of
children--that is, if they are the children of good
, ministers. have in my hand letter that was
sent to me some time since, and which contains
some facts bearing upon this matter. In connccti-
cut of 937 children fifteen years of age of 207
dclclns only 20 turned ont badly-I suppose
because they were not much in the habit ofattcnd-
ing public dinners.
"1n Massachusetts, out of 433 families of minis
tors and deacons, there were 1893 children over Is
years and only 20 ever became dissipated Here
we have 10 out of 2,535 children, and some of nv
friends, who are used to figures, say, that this is
just l-2 per cent, in the whole number. Now
gentleman, will ask you, ifany grazicr who was
breeding cattle would not be glad to lose only 2 l-2
4 per cent Of his stock? will any business man.
il he would not be glad times il his losses were
not greater than ID per cent? | undertake to
say, that no business has ever been so safe one as
that Of raising deacons. and ministers children in
i New England. There is but one thing more that
wish to mention before close, and it is that while
ministers are generally exceedingly talkatve min
isters children are both modest and taciturn. Iti
on that account that am unable to extend my re-
marks any further at this time"
EayaWe arc accustomed to thing of Adam and
; Eve as having been, before the fall, in q very
happy condition but one thing they missed they
were never children.
"No rowing childhood, no exploring youth,
/, Led them along till wonder chilled to truth
Full-iormed Mt once their sui jectworld they trod
| And gazod upon the wonders of their God.'
@ The following from an exchange may bo anus
ing:
/, adam never played marbles. He never played
9 "hokey." lie never drove tandem of boys with n
string. lie never skated on a pond, or played
"ball," or rode down hill on hand sleigh. And
Eve, she never made playhouse; she never took
tea with another little girl from the little teatnble
set out with the toy tea things; she never rolled
hoop, or jumped rope, or peiced baby-quilt or
dress doll. They never played "blind man 5
buff, or pussy wants n corner" "hurly burly"
or any of the games with which childhood disports
itself. TOW blank their age must have been, where
in no memories of carly youth came swelling up in
their hearts, no visions of childhood floating back
from the long past, on mothers voice chanting a
lullaby to the ear of fancy in the still hours of the
night, no fathers words ofkndness speaking from
tho church-yard where he sleeps Adam and Eve,
and they alone Of all the countless millions of men
and womed that have ever lived, had no childhood
CoRPULENcE CRIME.-Mr Bruce, in his Classic
and Historic Portraits, speaks of the danger of be-
coming too lat III sparta;
"The ancient Spartans paid as much attention To
the rearing of men, as the cattle breeders in mod
ern England do to the breeding of catte.-They
took charge of the irmness and looseness of mems
flesh, and regulated the degree of fitness to which
it was lawful in free State, for any citizen to ex
tend his body. Those who dared to grow too fat OF
too soft for military exercise and the service of Spar
: ia, were soundly whipped. In one particular in
stance, that of Nauchs, the of Poybus, the of
fender was brought before the Ephori and n meet
ing Of the whole people of Sparta at which his un-
lawful fatness was publicly exposed and he was
threatened with perpetual Punishment if he did
not bring his body within the regular Spartan COM
pass, and give up his culpable mode of living,
which was declared to be more worthy Of an Ioni-
an than son of Lacedemon."
Our 0wN INSTITUTIONS" THE st. Louis Repub-
lican in noticing the proposed lectures of Miss
Lucy Stone in that city, says;