Litchfield enquirer., 1854-01-12

with the subject. I have had myself
 some painful remembrances upon that
 point, and yet, after all. if I were ask
 ed what of all things had made the
 deepest impression on my memory. l
 should sayNa New England Sabbath
 morning. do not say that I should
 relish these old ideas of church>going,
 and sitting for two mortal hours of .
 Winter's morning without . fire in the
 room = for stove in . church. tn those days, was undeEsiood.to be a dissertation, even t such thing as stove was then conceived of. But they had what they called . Ssbba'-day house. ! recollecl that they had one in Salisbury. Conn.
 though It has since been put to othe, nses. Ths,e. after church, the members of the 6ock would repair. and eat their gingerbreada and doaghnuts. preparatory to taking second meal of sermon.
 When it vas 6rst proposed to intro> duce stoves in the church of my native place. LitchGeld. in Connecticut, there was violent opposition made to it. A man said 10 one good old deacon-- TRowBRIDoE. I call him: Deacon Trow. bridge. why do you object 10 stove ? Cause it's desecration.' said the deacon. 'Well.' said the man. but don't Aunt POLLY (lhas was the deacon's wi:el bring . foot>stove with her 9 'Well, | never thought of that.' said the deacon: the question was settled. and it was agreed that if it was right to have foot-stove it was all right to have a stove all over. I can give it as my belief that the de- scendan.s of the New England clergy : the company excep,ed-are worthy of their ancestors, Lest it may be thought that have taken little this evening, ! call upon all to bear witness that I have drank nothing stronger this evening than cold water and hot coff.e. though it is my own fault.
 It has been a maxim. that ministers and deacons' children, are worse than any others. The Greeks express a similar opinion. l was informed by my Greek teacher--(who. I may say. earned his money for the services rendered )-lhal it is said in Greece, that minister chil. dren are the devils grsndchildrsn.' l don't believe a word of it. l know who my grandfather was, and I am bound to say that minis.ers' children are tue best so,t of children--that is, if they are the children of good ministers. l have in my hand . letter that was sent to me sometime since. and which contains some facts bearing upon this matter. In Con- necticut, of e37 children over l5 years of age. of POT ministers and deacons. only 20 turned out badly--I euppose because they were not much in the habit of at> tending public dinners. In MAssachn> sets, out of 433 families of ministers and deacons, there were l.59s children over l5 years. and only 20 ever became dis> sipated. Hero we have 40 out of 2 2s5S5 children, and some of my friends. who are used 10 figures. say. that this is just 2 l-2 per cent. in the whole number.-- Now. gentlemen. ! will ask you if any grazier who was breeding cattle would not be glad to lose only 2 l.2 rer cent. of his stock? I will ask any business man # he would not be glad of,entimes if his losses were not greater than 2 l 2 per cent. [. I undertake to cay that no business has ever been SO safe a one as that of raising deacons' and ministers children in New England. There is but one thing more that I wish to mention before close, and it is that while minis ters are generally exceedingly talkative, ministers children are both modest and taci,urn. It is on that account that l am unable to extend my remaiks any further as this lime. sss ,s. .'