Litchfield enquirer., 1865-03-02

isters should not walk as you and do, seeing that they have just such legs as we have, and feet in all respects like unto our own. sotha' his natural ability to propsl himself at a fair rate of speed is beyond question. But though cannot explain the reason why a minister should not walk as ordinary men do, yet that he does not so do is clear. and moreover this difference is so essential in clergyman that ! some churches think more of it than they do of his preaching So fully convinced am of this, that were a young minister I would strive more to get correct habits of walking than of thought, for good christian people would always be ready to make allowances for poor preaching, while it would be utterly i'm possible for them to overlook any pedal irreg
 ularities. The best step for minister to use, I that is, the one deemed the most pious and ax- emplary, is one about thirteen inches long, save when he crosses the path after rain, in which case he may take three steps fourteen inches and half from toe to tee, but this is the maximum. Above all he must never jump or hop acorss, as you and do, for that would be vulgar and unministerial and cause com ment. Indeed know young minister who did it once, and though it was in the evening" yet somebody saw the boot prints the next morning, C: in one way or another it leaked out, hardly know how, and you never did see such hubbub as it made. An aged widow in Israel started first, I believe, when she heard the rumor in the morning and never stopped til well toward night. It was estimated by ! the village schoolmaster, who was good in fig ures that she took something over fifty seven thousand four hundred and eighty-nine steps that day, averaging longer than the minister's leap. Then all the silver. haired maidens be- gan to travel. and finally they got the singing teacher at it, and he, appreciating the crisis, harnessed up his horse and taking in lady | whose father was deacon, and who knew therefore, just what to do in such an emergen.. 1 cy, kept his team on the run for four or five days without stopping to feed, until the poor horse had shrunk 90 much in the harness that 1t was only by the best of management that he could be kept from. stepping through the col lar. hardly knew what to make of it, but 1 suppose it was all right. At least, owing to the mighty efforts which the widow and sing ing teacher put forth, or to some other cause, the church survived the indiscretion of the minister. and standeth until this day. am under the impression. though. that the horse never fully recovered from his exertions or re
 gained his natural sise. Upon this point, how ever, cannot speak with as much certainty. I The third peculiarity. treasured by family tradition and considered as the one which gives I ministers their greatest sancity, will now communicate to you do.so the more readily because it cannot but clear up cloud of doubts in your mind and dispel many gross delusions
 And if it should occasion any surprise, you must rccollect how ignorant you are upon the matter and how little such men as you and I. are able to appreciate ministerial qualifca- lions. This peculiarity, which is deemed by most really pious people, as invaluable in a pastor, is dyspepsia. This is esteemed the surest evidence that he is reliable man and thoroughly orthodox that can be given. A ting of sallowness about the eyes, hollow cheeks, and settled look of melancholia are really indispensable to one who aspires for a peaceful pastorate any where in New England If the candidate can have, besides these a hacking cough, the least bit of hemorrhage, or strong touch of bronchitis, his success is sure His paleness is laid by popular verdict, to hard study. His cough awakens the sym pathies and ensures the prayers of every aged disciple of the female gender in his congrega- tiou. His sermons are full of spirituality, for they treat continually of heaven, death, hell and angels, and these are the topics which sinners like to have dis,ussed the best, inas- much as they are always applicable to every
 body in general and to nobody in particular
 The church members are delighted also be- cause nothing is said to disturb their conscien- ees or mapping So you see, Hawkeye, how unit we are to be ministers, and how much above us are those-who cough and have cramps and phthisic. But am sure that I never l WVuAN AAnS " uU SVAouMptASO, ouu WS6h CyVu, and long faced even if I could thereby become real first class minister. But suppose such feelings are wicked and that should not say 50.
 1 Such are some of the facts which tue halt brother ofthe clergyman told the grandmother of my wife's aunt, and I suppose them to be all true and have narrated them to you, so that you may see how impossible it is for ministers te shoot $ rife, or do anything as you and do I think though, that it is no more than just fol me to say, that some people do not think thai Ia minister need cough, or dress, or walk differ ently than other men, but hold that he should be in all respects like other people. yet wifh 4 out sin. And heard one man say once that he did not believe that St. Peter had whitt
 neck tie on or patent leather bosts when h, preached his big sermon tt the Pentieost, 0,
 that Paul even had the bronchites in his life I Butt this man never made long prayers ol drew down the corner of his mouth when b,
 entered the church IS the piouss do, and b. never seemed to have much religion unless i was in giving to the poor and plying th, I slave. which is nothing more than commo, 'i folks could do. So don't think his word. ar,