San Andreas independent., 1857-01-24
Clerical Paupers-Bread and Butter Re
ligion

The Dayton CO., Religious Telescope
administers the following wholesome re.
buke to rather numerous class of gentle
men, who are fond of livinga fat life with
out much exertion of muscle or brains:
We will present a case to show what
meaning must be attached to our caption.
A short time since we were present at a
meeting of {. classts Cor conference) of a
sister church, where a stout, hearty minis
ter presented bundle of papers certifying
to his good conduct, talent, and qualifca-
tions for the ministry In addition to
these paper testimonials, he presented, by
word of mouth, bitter complaints against
the classis and the church, because they
had dome 50 little for him. lie conclu-
dcd with the declaration that he would
leave the church oaless It rouM do more
for him. 1t did not appear that he had
ever done anything for the church-that
he had enlarged its borders, had built up
fourishing societies, and added strength to
It's various interests. On the contrary, it
rather appeared that he had always been a
weakness, an incumbrance, a burden to
the church. Heaven help to be charita-
bic. but it did seem to us from the pecu-
liar emphasis with which he used the per-
sonal pronouns describing htnsse1t. that he
was i'll hot pursuit, first of all, and above
all, of bread and butter His church re-
lations depended, not upon his convictions
OF truth, but upon his bread and butter
prospects For the sake of bread and but
ter, he could turn any kind of a spiritual
somer-sault. For bread and butter he
could be high church, low church, or broad
church; evangelical or liberal, Catholic or
Protestant. This man we pronounced a
clerical pauper.
The intense selfshness of men of this
stamp sticks out in so many offensive
forms that they cannot be long endured in
any one place or in any one church. They
soon eat off the pasture in one field to the
very ground, and then without doing any,
thing to improve it, they commence their
plteous complaints about the church
"The church must do more for ne, -
" | must have better living than this
Claiming to be the ministers of the Most
High God (while in reality they are the
servants of their most low selyes), they
demand support on the ground that they
"who preach the gospel should live of the
gospelp' At last, when the pasture is
eaten into the very earth, and the field
which was, when they entered it, green
as Paradise, becomes naked as a desert,
they begin to look about them for field
Cor church) in which the pastures arc
fresh and green, and devise means to get
into it. Thus they 90 in double quick
time from place to place, and from church
to church-all for living. Prince of
paupers, pity these men.
EXPANDING THE LUNGs.-Step tinto
the purest air you can find; stand perfectly
erect, with the head well up and theshoui-
ders back, and then, fixing the lips as if
you were going to whistle, draw the air,
not through the nostrils, but through the
lips, into the lungs. When the chest is
about half full gradually raise the arms,
keeping them extended, with the palms
of the hands down, as you suck in the air,
so as to bring them over the head just as
the lungs are quite full. Then drop the
thumbs inward, and after gently forcing the
arms backward and the chestopen, reverse
the process by which you drew your breath
till the lungs are entirely empty. This pro-
cess should be repeated three or four times
Immediately after bathing, and also, sew
eral times through the day. 1t is impos-
sible to describe to one who never tried it.
the glorious sense of vigor which follows
this exercise. 1t is the best expectorant
in the world. We know gentleman, the
measure of whose chest had been increased
by this means some three or four inches
during as many onths.-Home Journal.