New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-08-21
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is IT FAIRa-Is 1T RIGHT

Messrs Editors-You will agree with me- eysry one
titled to the serious consideration Of the oeops of New
attention toit . n's TOO 'A's 70 call 'ner
getaways sick and bereaved are thc min;sters ~ fhp
gospel Ald not take trips North and to Europe-al
do not summer on me heehful lake shores and gulf
coasts. When friend IL sick and wishes ministers
visit dead and surviving friends and family would
have the last solemn rites of christian burial performed
have sought them felt their services IN .imss If
dessrtion and opidemcs be inyamabls Not fearing
infectious disease, midday heat ar oravaysrJ
they come at our call.
Bad as our case Is in midsummer and especially in
epdemics would be but that these
tering wherever action or tbs house Of monrnnr IL
Qaesion-Ars not these much needed much used, and
much valued servants Of God badly treated BY our
people?
Witnesss funeralths minister attends-frst at the
house, thsn IN procession usually to the tomb Pro
nounces there dust to dus and is among TIA lat To
retire The sexton is paid the uudertaker + maid
csbmsn ard carriage driver ID paid and vet h. whose
time y assas sss ss hss as theirs he
dismissed with bow and thank We u
One ssy that is their business-to do good to minis
tsrn etc 1et they must hee. Polite bows and thank
YES do nos satisfy landlords for monthly rent o nav
grocer's BILL or clothe families CONGREGATIONAL haing
thin and pusness au AND living expensive ought their
recognition ReQuited they cannot Be- '0--'e
They d not make out bill of CHARGES Thew won,d
not sue sioss sne magistrate They make demand
II Minister performed marriage ceremony and were
dismissed with bow and thank ye it wond
be thought the party saving his fee had lost his credit
wedding is pleasant affair to which any are pleassd
be admitted Ministers buryng the members Of their
church who while living Contributed TO
their support are put buryng their dead but stran
gers fannes anu and associations so re-
lated alter the case Is it right that these should con
10 served by him, at his own cost, and that too
when thy are not INDECENT and the funeral
cosg He serves the poor gratis and freely cheer
fully BIZ they are not poor The writer knew faithful
Potssl q ms city who passed Through the
postw@ often called upon by all classes and attended
seyy funerals not oneenth of which were tor bis
coigrsgation-the SEXTON undertaken and remnant
of the fmy often constituting his sole company He
visited e graveyard and stood at the mouth Of ombs
when ned their nostrils to escape the prevail
ing stena and oicated bare under shifting sun One
two, thre Or four hours would be taken up By single
funeral NO study no other labor could BIZ engaged In
Doctors apotheeares made fortunes undertakers and
nurses $50 Inc minister reeeivsd in all, fifteen dollars
poor nan, with family TO support Messrs Editors
there is evil in this treatment of our resident and
labongcergy With many, it ia caused by thoughtess
nsss-a mere oversight In the gloom Of grief and CON
fusion the time they do not think of it, and Of course
not sminded But ask-from whatever cause il
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