Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1862-10-30

ana assuming Gpd supervision, uNlnE IN TO-
day all the future, and seeking at once TO sup
ply natural and artificial wants for all time, civil
lizel society is in state Of serytude
DR.. .RuETORICA AND OTHER PREACHERS.
DR.. Wilmington, of Newburyport, Mass, dis
courses somewhat facetiously on Permanent
preaching for Permanent Pastorate," wherein
he gives some very good hints to different cas-
ses of preachers, and concludes that short pas
torates are more owing to defects in the clergy,
than faults in the people. He thinks the min-
lister needs discretion, industry, piety, and COM
nonsense, with love for his work and knowl-
edge of his pcople-and then there 5 no reason
why he should not succeed. Of the pastoral
failures he thus discourses:-
"Dr. Rhetoric was always changing; he was
man Of fdSproportionate power: with fine per-
son AMI a thrill z voice. He had passages in
his discourse which would almost start the house
Gom its foundation But his taste was incor-
rect if he often hit, he sometimes missed and
his great impediment was, that somehow his
very eloQutnce created craving he could not
satisfy; he had, at last. to compare himself to
Noah's dove, who left the ark TO find 70 rest for
the sole OF her foot. The Rev NJ. Indiscreet
was his pupil /; | watched him from he first, and
never did minister 50 disappo:at me. He be-
gan by initiating DR.. Rhetoric, and as Dr. john
son had clearly proved that no man ever became
great by limitations, | set him down as a failure.
But no; lndiscreet survived his limitations,
scared above them had every quality for per-
manent preacher, so far as sermonizing is con-
cerned but alas failed for want of common
sense. lie was always moving. Mr.. Finespun
wss a remarkable example. Finespun had
power and ability initiated nobody, and was
original to the last degree. But his combine
tions were forced his figures were brought from
the ends of the earth. Nothing could be more
curious than his introductions and when he
named his text, no hearer could divine what
would be the subject yet Fincspun was man
of real power and If, when he lett his mathe-
matics, he could have remembered that straight
line was the nearest distance between two given
points, it would have been better fer him. He
always had use for his wings. Sho,over had
short paS,orateS, and abundance OF them. He
has left the world lesson which himself never
would learn Shotoyer was too polite; he play
ell The politician about cabbageS lie always
had plut because he always imagined coun-
ter-plot against him. II be had the simplest
measures to carry in his church, his friends must
meet; there must be caucus; I'VE may have
oppuueuts we must be ready for them,' etc.,
etc, until finally he had use for all the machin-
| Shotover could see the last need OF his machin-
ery, hut never could see the origin of the evil.
| Wigfall always sincerely pitied; for he had
! short settlements without any great cause
! Somehow or other, he has always made the I'M
! preston that he was a great man, and IN teW
years the people always found out that he was
not so great iGan as they thought him. lhey
were indignant and rose at once to revenge
their own mistake on their fugitive victim. lie
went to another vineyard to the same impress
ion and to find the same treatment. Sensitive
was killed by gossips, busybodes, and tale bear
ers Oh il he could have put on the shield OF
indifference but he did not wholly make him
self
Wautwil tried to please everybody, and en-
ded in pleasing none not even himself. Rev.
Mr.. Flash had a most pleasing and pathetic
voice, and might have spoken for years with et-
feet, if he could have found anything to say
but he died a pastoral death, smothered in his
own previous popularity. Wronghead had a
short career, because he never could put two
IDEAS together. His sermons generally consist
ed of one idea, which he would repeat over about
,even thousand times, with astonishing variety
of language. lie would endeavor TO make the
bantling pass for new baby by putting on d
new slip but when the audience found it out
they dismissed him and his bantling together,
But the most melancholy example OF the tempo
rary was my dear friend Mr.. Prim. Prim was 9
good scholar, and man of ofcommon-sense, dill
gent worker, and true Christian; yet he wa'
slow to find a settlement, and never could keeE
what he had slowly found. What was the mat
ter? DR.. Franklin makes poor Richard say
"A little neglect may breed great mischief; iol
want of nail, the shoe was lost; for want OF
shoe, the horse was lost and for want OF horst
the rider was lost, being oyertaken and slam b,
, the enemy all for the want oi little care aoou
horseshoe nall Prim was obstructed by ut
tie impedimen $, and which he knew to be littl'
at the time. Nobody must speak to him golne
e 10 meeting no one must intrude on particular
n hours if he had a call for settlement, he mus
n nnt in some vexatous condition they must have
4 new bell, or change the lamps, or the hymn
: hooks. His manner was always precise, and hi
yrr, laugh was ungenial. In short, he was
. rosebush full ofverdure, flowers, and fragrance
, but YOU could not touch him but some bidder
brier would scratch your fingers and repel you
y friendship He fell a victim to little briers.-
I Methodist.
! The second son of the Emperor of Russia
,,ho ia IN visit The United States al an early daX