Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-07-29
The EiIded xond TO GRACE

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age rent free, and that, with his iiterar,
earnings, his income is SI2, 900. L. II
Chaplin has $4,000 per annum, anG
makes as much more by lecturing. DR.
Bethune has $4,000, but is the possess.
or of a fortune outside of his profession.
al earnings. DIR. Adams, says oul
DIR. Hawks has $4,000 a year and a
house. DR.. Taylor, of Grace church,
has $4,000 aud the fine parsonage adj
jacent to the church. Rev. Messrs.
Tying, Bellows, Osgood, Cheever, and
other leading clcrgymen, receive from
$4,000 to $4,000 per annum. In many
cases the salary only represents a small
part of the pastors earnings. If he is
young and a bachelor, the young ladies
vie with each other in furnishing him
with the thousand and one ct ~ceteras
which go to make up a geutleman's toll
ct. He has slippers, and caps, and
watch cases, aud suspcuders and sur
plices, and all sorts of traps, without
number. He may select the richest of
his fair patrons for his rib" and receive
around dowry from her discussing agent
at sight. His new household is adorn-
cd with contributions of useful and or
namental articles the gifts of his par
%ishioners, who hope to find a short cut
to heaven by a heavy fee to its elected
representative. In the summer months
the fashionable congregation ~suspends
the task of worshipping God in town, in
order to adore Satan and all his works
at the watering places. The clergyman
bolts off to his country seat, and gives
himself up to the sports of the season.
What becomes of the poor sinners who
cannot afford to go out of town we can
not say; nor do we suppose their spirit
ual pastors and masters have much care
about them.
five compare the rewards given to
the clergy with the salaries of other pro-
fessional men,, or men pursuing occu-
putions which give them a position be-
fore the public, we shall find that the
ministry offers them more competence
than any other calling. Leading coun-
sci at the bar may make fortunes; but
how few are really 'leadingS among the
army of, lawyers? The large number
are briefless young men, who get moth
= ing" Again, there are hard working
attorneys who may make two thousand
a year, and rave the hardest work to
collect it. The same remarks will apply
to the literary and medical professions.
No one seems to- relish paying an edi-
tors booksellers, doctors or lawyers
bill; but money comes down upon the
head of the parson in a Dan9ian
Next to the popular clergyman the
popular player is the greatest pet of the
publi;. Perhaps in the golden hour of.
his early triumphs he may receive for
preacher: But let premature old age
come upon the actor, and those who pet
ted and dined and wined him yesterday
will kick him into the gutter to-murrow.
With the young ladies he stands next
to the parson. But the divinities of
thegreenroom are not in that high state
of drill and discipline that distinguish
the divinities of the vestry. Satan is
always at work in the coulissis, making
some kind of a riot, more or less public,
according to the prominence or obscure
ty of the sinners. Beecher and most of
the tip-top clergymen generally manage
to keep the old fellow out by making
their churches a close borough, and
watching, like prudent game keepers,
over their hocks, male and female
Sometimes, oweveT, the sentinel on
Zion watchtower slumbers, as in the.
recent case of the Brooklyn widow an
the demoiselle who had two intrigues
during the revival. So the Devil Slips
in; then he is only expelled by hard
praying and harder swearing, according
to all accounts. We must do the clergy
FhoFIucfIoa 70 Sor khot a.. - IL.
lambs well. Some uneharitable people
say that they do SO from interested mo-
tiyesa but in this wicked world no one
can escape %calumny.
The parson has the further advantage
oVer'the player, the lawyer, or the doe
tor, in the permanencc OF his employ
ment. The broken advocate, the ruin
ed actor, or the physician or editor who
dees not keep up with the times, are
quickly thrown overheard; but let your
.tsdivine" be ever so much of an old fogy
Jet him shuttle over his prayers and
cough out his sermon-he is still con
tinued in Office, with an assistant. The
ladies pet him more than ever-their
dear sympathetic souls cleaying to the
holy man more and more, as his in
frmities grow apace. Monks, ministers.
and pastors have been the especial ia
Forites of the fair in all times, and we
cannot expect to be wiser than our
,grandmothers.
1t is this fine position of the pet cler-
gyman that calls many a young man of
good parts to a sense Overwhelming grace.
He is born to evil as the sparks fly up
ward; but Satan does not pay so well,
and therefore he enlists on the other
side. Players, too, see before them a
field of clover when a crisis has reduced
them to short commons, and religion
hits them on the head with the force of
a sixty-four pound shot. But these
converted actors are not public pets.
They are generally Hstrollers or walking
gentlemen. Nobody ever heard of a
first-rate opera singer being brought to
= sense of his awful condition until af-
ter he had lost his voice. We arc forced
to the conclusion that Mammon-the
god that regulates this metropolis-has
.crept into the ranks of the ~uncopious
themselves. and that, in spite of the re-