Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-06-01
Lbt Daily Sqpp,
TUEsDAY, JUNE l. 1858.

TUESDAY. JUNE 1, 1885,
THE Mtx1srRY.-one Of the best speeches Of
ms anniversary week was made by the Bon.
I,sge Thomas of the Supreme Court, who pre-
sided At the Unitarian Festival IN Faneuil Hall.
We make the following extract from his address
from the report in the ChTiStiGn Register. In
bidding the clergy welcome to the festival, Judge
Thomas said
Yours is indeed, reverend brothers the noblest
Of professions, with its cares, its trials, its soT
rows and its temptations, with all the highest
and hoblest duties that man can render to man,
associated with all the hopes and sacred memo
ries Of life with the waters OF baptism the merry
music of The marriage. the broken oIeao ol .ne
commemoratioB, with the open graves OF those
we 10 ved. and with the hopes that penetrate De-
yond the veil
am not unconscious indeed. that the pulpit
has lost something of its relative power ana H.
huenoe, but not in grea or higher degree than
the ofhsr nrofessions The truth is undoubtedly
that more intellectual power Is absorbed oy the
active pursujte OF life, because men md IN them
more freedom and more material power FEWER
men of talent, Therefore, enter the proieSsiou'
and those that do are ia haste to get IN aud as
often in haste to get out so that the word set,
tied as applied to ministers, has lost It's seUled
meaning; and often the advice to the young can
aidate that he should be ordained on HORSEBACK,
80 as to be ready to move, is behind the times,
and the injunction should be that ne shouIo oe
ordained in the express train
The result is that there are shepherds without
hocks and hocks without shepherds. II happens
to be my unfortunate position TO be wneTe there
is a hock without shepherd; and nave oeen
led to think Of this matter somewhat more tnAn
usual; and though | am satisfied the lauit is not
altogether on one side, still l think the greater
fault is with the people than with the pastor IN
the frst place, We expect too mucn o. ,ene 'n'.ts
tly. One sermon week IS as tnucu as 'ne
strongest man can write, and do II wen zap
plause0 II l understand anything OF the nature
Of man. one religious service, if 1t be alive and
new is all a man can attend to, ana 90 II wen
If we DESIRE heIefore, more than one, we hnst
be content with old sermons. There is nothing
on which there is more nonsense than TINS. 10
We hesitate to read good book secona time!
Do YOU hesitate to read a sermon OF Butter, or
Jeremy TAYLOR, or James Martneau, second
time {? There was good sense ana gooo nature Ill
the remark of a reverend doctor 70 young
preacher, when asked how he liked sermon
which the.latter had just preached, ana when ne
replied, 4" l like the sermon well; always hkeu
that sermon" ~
We cannot always have good sermons No
man's mind always works well. Failures are NOV
confined to the pulpit Don't say we kno" that,
There is dull preaching where men talk, not oil
the law and the prophets but of the law tor the
profits. And though the Law is said to be dry II
has some very green limbs. Not all OF DOCTOR
Ian1Smen
.oeeded. If heavy sermon puts man to steep,
he awakes in time to ctiticise IT, A heavy pre-
Scdption may put man into sleep from when
he never awakes to criticise. There are grace
sermons besides those from the pulpit.
We expect too much. We give TOO HtV'e-too
little Of sympathy, Of Encouragement, Of co oper'
We pay too little. The faithful minister may.
NOT does not labOr-for the mere recompense OF
reward. But we can't get men in this wotla WIN L
the tongues Of angels who can be maintained On
thu food of angels. You cannot have the mlho
and heart work freely and fairly in your service,
unless they are relieved from harrsssing care and
anxiety about their daily bread, or il they must
be constantly thinking how they shall make the
two ends Of the year meet.
You' ought, therefore, always. to give him
enough for a comfortable support for himself and
family, enough to give his children culture and
enough TO enable him to follow that good old FASH
toned custom of New England, to lay By some
thing for ''rainy day." This is due III justice
That is a most notifying plan called donation
visits, by which it is attempted to exc out what
should have been given in another form. II Is
a sort Of a show Of charity, by which you give
what he does not want instead Of giving that
with which he can supply his own wants GIVE
him. If you give at all, the honest reward OF ms
labor.
But have one difficulty in respect to the inter-
ference Of some in the ministrations OF the pull
pit am one of those old fashioned people, who
DeNeve Inc pulpit Is tue place W pteacH shS + -
pei But this venture to say, that the pulpit,
to be Of any use, to have any effect morally and
spiritually. must be free and untrammeled, and
noman-who has proper sense fself respect VIII
consent to occupy pulpit any other condi-
ton. (Applause) Suppose young man does
undertake TO air his vocabulary little (Laugh.
teri what then! Itpromotes his digestion, and
will promote your patience.
Brethren and sisters, do you suppose it will
be believed, century hence, that servant OF
him who came "to preach deverance to the
captive, and to set at liberty them that are bruis-
ed' and pursued, should be bitterly censured and
denounced, because he prayed for the slave be-
cause When the door Of human hope seemed TO be
shut to his brother, he invoken for him the Di-
vine protection and blessing (Applause.)
These considerations. brothers and sisters, /
have presented in plain, familiar way I; believe
they are worthy of consideration by US all in the
discussion Of this interesting subject of the rela-
ton Of the pastor to his people. believe if
these suggestions we're fairly carried out, we
should have fewer hocks without shepherds, and
fewer shepherds without focks less reason to
complain that although the field is white for the
harvest, the laborers are so few"