The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-03-24
Churches 81 Clergy Of st. Paul
vtssr PaKsEYrBRiAa CHUkCH-C0ScLuDRD.

was engaged By the congregation OF ths
First Presbyterian Church to supply, dur
ing the winter Of 1866, The vacancy ooea-
stoned by the withdrawal Of Mr.. MILL
from it, pulpit. Through the summer Of
1856 the Rev Mr.. BLACK WAS engaged a.
!" temporary supply"-s phrase whose use
on the ecclesiastical Exchange would seem
to imply that ministers, like everything else
in this commercial age, except editors, have
degenerated TO mercantile commodity.
In August, 1856. the Rev. John NAT
rocKs, then resident at Reeseville. Clinton
county, New York, at the instigation Of a
81. Pssl gentleman, who had married one
Of the Reessville girls. received and accept
ed call TO the pastoral charge Of the
ehurch--hs predecessors coming under
Miss SusAs NrrEss philosophic classif.
cation Of Temporary" ~ iuvidiously dis
tinguished by her from "perm 'nent SER
wants"
Since Mr.. MArocKs' ministry com
meneed about fil,y persons have been added
to the Church by letter, and = profession Of
faith. The larger portion Of these have
joined in the past year, under the influence
Of the recent Religious Revival, in the pro-
motion Of which, in this city, the jealous
ministrations Of Mr.. MArrocKs we're among
the most effective and powerful aids. Dur.
ing the last summer, 10 the zenith OF tho re-
ligious excitement which. starting on the
seaboara. penetrated to the furthest from
tier-the First Presbyterian Church, like
the Fulton Street Church 10 New York
was daily open for prayer meetings, which,
IL not 40 largely attended ~ in New York,
still attracted numbers OF our citizens, and
formed an important feature Of the religious
movement in this community. A handbill
on the door, which invited passers by TO go
in il only Tor few moments during the
exercises Of the afternoon, conveyed sign.
6cant and eloquent appeal against the indif
ference OF the business community to rell-
gious concerns.
II must, however, be admitted that the
effects OF this religious excitement were by
no means commensurate with the exertions
made by i,s agents. The few who sought
relief from the tide Of worldly disaster in the
consultations Of religion bore a very small
proportion TO the numbers whom disaster
made more worldly, who cared more for the
salvation Of their fortunes than the salvation
Of their southland were even more inter.
es,sd in the revival Of business than the re-
vival OF religion,
Mr.. MArrocKs is q native Of Vermont. q
brother, VIZ believe, Of Gov. MArrocKs ol
that State. lie graduated at Middlebury
College. 10 1882; studied law at home. and
located at Troy. New York, when he com
mcnced the study Of theology, which hi
prosecuted till 1893, in the Theological De
partment of Yale College.
At this period he was invited to the Pas
tora,c OF the Presbyterian Church, in Reese
vile, New York, from the rural s,cluslon al
which. after q ministry of eighteen years, hc
was called to the charge OF his present con-
gregntion--to whom he has endcarcd himself
by his unaffected pety, his earnest devotion
to the spiritual interests of his flock, while
he has no less won the esteem Of the com
munty by his transformations aud varied
at,ainmca,s, aud by the frank simplicity and
genlah,y OF his manners, the bonhommn-iI
We may so call it-oi his disposition, which
Is by no means characteristic OF the cleri
cal profession. Ills crayat, 10 speak by u
symbol. has nothing OF the still and formal
tie. or the ostentation of immaculate white
ness which often invests the clergyman with
the authoritative and indspa,ablc air OF u
quotation from Scripture. There is no at
icsta,iou OF the Articles Of Faith in his man.
ncr, or pharisaical depreciation ot the fallen
race OF ApAS, in his costume. lie is rs
hearty. and robust, and human. out OF the
pulpit rs he Is earnest and laborious ia the
discharge of his Parochial duties. II he is
no, local tradition like the founder OF his
Church, Mr.. MILL. BE- is not the less r.
spectrd and loved by his congregation. His
qualities are less those of popular prsacse'
than of mnptsr. His mind is better or
ganisel, more compact, and more SYMMETRY
cal than that OF Mr. NsLL; but with lcs
practical force and positiveness less nervous
momentum, less plctur, ,qucnes and ANNA
tiou Of expression than his eo-laborer
Both have wrctebcd, unmuslcal voices
which is somewhat relieved in the case O
the House OF Hope minister by certain sin
culMitss OF mciulaiion, which consists ii
hls constantly managing TO As,onlsh hi