The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-10-07

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to the rescue.
Come, Ned" said she, " want the pocket
book"
what will you give me for it I? Remember,
| have scarcely as yet begun my examination
of it. We are, as it were, selling and buying
an uDexplored tract in California. You must
pay me handsome premium on its possibili-
ties
"A three cent piece2 A quarter of dol
lar? The eagle?
"No; am above mercenary considerations !;
besides, I've got them already"
Extortoner What will you have, then
tune on the piano2"
"Yes, but l can always get that gratis. Who
thinks OF paying for the air he bresthes? /
retort your reproach. Who but an extortioner
would think of making me pay for the air l
hear? Will you tell me what you two had
been discussing before came in2"
If you will let Herman have.the pocket
book"
"And go on with the discussion, just as if /
we're not here?"
If you will not interrupt and make fun of
us-ii you will let me have the purse"
There then. Now then"
Herman was abusing the clerical profess
SION"
"Very good. Let us hear. All fair in war
They abuse US to their hearts content every
Sunday. Why shouldn't we take our revenge
on 4 weekday"
was abusing, not the members of the
profession, but the inconvenieuces and restric.
tons of it. Clara was asking me why did not
enter it,
Clara, shall be obliged to lock you up. 1t
would never do, in the world, for fellow of his
temperament |"
And | was telling her that did not incline
to do so, and why, not inclining, did not see
that | ought. | don't know whereabout We
we're, exactly, when we left off; but I'll begin
again here, a. any rate. A good example, or
sm much mistaken, often loses half its eff ct
by being set by a person whose setting it ia
taken as quite matter of course and all in
the way Of his business. There seems to have
been convenient division of labor between
many congregations and their pastors, like that
between many wives and their husbands. BE
good for us, virtually but not virtuousy, says
the congregation, 'and we'll be rich for YOU
Thus, the good example and precepts of their
eiergymen are too apt to look like parts Of
financial transactions to the very men whose
minds most need to be turned, by his precepts
and example, from their too exclusive devotion
to financial transactions. They think he is
good for so much a year, just as they are busy
for so much year. You will ask me, dare
say, now, what reason | have to take it for
granted that am going to set good example
al all, in orders or out"
No, | shan't," said Edward "All prece-
dent confirms the depressing idea. But must
ask you how you can answer it to your con-
science, that you persist in setting the example
to person of so persistent undergraduates
as myself Have you no fear of increasing my
capabilities by my opportunities 2"
Not |. That's your affair. l can trust you
to take care of yourself. / suspect your worst
sin is pretending to be sinful. A less tasteful
kind Of hypocrisy, by the way, Mr.. Ned, than
the common kind. That is said, you know, to be
the homage which vice pays to virtue but
yours is the homage which virtue pays to vice.
However, have no fear of hurting anybody
IN that way at least. ! don't take it for granted
at all, that | am going to set good example,
out II | am not, | have no right to 90 into the
pulpit; aud if am, believe that need not
20 into the pulpit. | believe that I-observe
don't say everybody, but I-can do more good
out OF it than in Il. The stampede of consci-
ehuous men, as a matter of course, into it, is
attended, think, with this great disadvantage,
among others. If all conscientious men are
TO be expected to GO into the pulpit, the
converse OF the proposition is practically taken
Tor granted namely, men who don't go into
the pulpit are not tdebe expected to be consci.
entlous. God makes the priest, as much as
de makes the poet. If the priesthood-no,
doubt whether that word belongs to the new
covenant, it is obsolete-if the ministry is q
mans vocation, let him take it, and thank God
Tor II s the highest; but, if know myself, it ID
mol nine. The church wants such God -anoint
ed leaders, God knows, to fill her highest
places, in these halfdeistical, Interpretation
days; but We cannot all fill the highest places
ana she wants Christian laymen, too, ready tc
carry out iearlessly and freely into practice
Shal her Christian preachers preach, and tC
snow, as her preachers cannot, how perfect 80
ever lher practice may be, that no such apolog,
as black coat ia needed for saying Christian
don mean canting-words, and doing Chris
tRn deedg"
There was pause; and Clara filled it b,
saying herman was telling me that he though
o! studying medicine"
Was he?" said Edward. 81 noticed in pass
Ig something of gap in my shelves. sup
posed he had run away with the contents
merely with the intention of filling up CORES
ponding space in his cours de httsrature un,
's,seue; DO you really mean to practise 2"
II can get chance. DR.. Brodie tells m
mat he can make me useful immediately, as
SOFT OF halt assistant among his poor patients
81 9aali you practice only among the poor
mats as 1t may prove hereafter. / shal
90 where Pm wanted. If the rich send 70
me; 10 the rich; if the poor, to the poor.
OOln, perhaps L shall find it convenient to be
eoH OF medical Robin Hood, and take from tn
one what give to the other"
l, low long have you thought of it?"
Ever since saw the inhamed eyes of tn
poor Indians, believe. Ever since we cam
IN poor, torsaken Sioux girl, on the prairies
Il am sure: Didn't | write? No, had q
.nanee at that time to send letter. 1t was
'efy hard case. A pretty creature she was. @
sixteen or eighteen, and seemed. from he
Hress, to be person of condition. She had O
xgings OF line scarlet cloth, richly ornamentes
Gu was wrapped in two superb buffalo robe
uien were beautifully embroidered with Dol
TplIe quilts, as were a pair of new moccasiu
.cn she had on, besides. She was living b,
S G,ue perfect encampment of the dead,
eAoiodges, so called. Nine Sioux were d
Imposing IN theirs, at little distance-to b,
Irene dlscomposure, one would ha,
v;tLsnt-iylng in state in their buffalo skin
WIN their saddles, spears, complexities. ar
ooTTcooutrements, piled around them. Thew hs
ss.. Gea OF the cholera and her savage friend
S.ssid 10 wait for her to follow their exaupl
ha pala her the agreeable attention of layir
out beforehand, with sll these pretty thing