The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-11-29
RANDOM THOUGHTS No. As.
BIZ TIE EDITOR.

Last week referred incidentally to the meeting
of the Ministerial Association IN this place. at.
tended the services as often as could spare the
time The proceedings were highly interesting.
As TO the doctrines advanced In the essays read, 1t
does not become me to express on opinion. no
riced that there was great diversity of opinion
even among the ministers themselves. But some
things may criticise, as well as they.
One young minister, who had not long been out
Of college at | judged from his manner, arose to
read an essay. His subject was, THE Lord God
Omnipotent. He threw himself ntoa theatrical
attitude worked his face into an expression of
intense agouy, and at once walked for the stars
as he expressed 1t. He exhausted all the adjec
tives, and then threw in the advcrbs. He soon
left the fixed stars far in the rear As Milton SAYS
Mine times the space that measures day and night
To mortal men,
he pursued his sanguinary fight. He agonized-
sweatcd.--and- During his perform
ance could think Of 10 English word TO express
my appreciation of the Young mans performance
and mentally calculated, Qf | may be allowed
such an eXpression,) "Hiialutin!"
When will young men from college learn lit
tie common sense? Elder Adams well said, in
reference to this class of men, that it was his opn-
ion that there are more educated fools in these
days than there are wise men. But this young
man has talent, and If he would study the mono
syllable writings of Wendell Phillips and John g.
Whittier, he would improve. Now, he is of opin-
ion that what he does not know, is not worth
knowing. But he will know more when BIO is
older.
There was much minor criticism. Some errors
were not noticed. For instance, the Elder said
IAN hundred" To reconcile this with correct
grammatical construction, the must be dropped,
in cockney style. One said: IF brother c.
were not such a fine critic himself" 1t ought t.
have been so fine critic, After the word such,
an adjective ought not to be used qualifying the
same noun. One error, very common, was OBJ
served, and one minister referred to it, This was,
ending sentence with proposition. For in
stance, minister would say: ''This is the most
difficult subject which l ever wrote upon" 1t
should be, 'the most difficult subject upon which
| ever wrote"
One minister claimed that in the word possess,
the two letters in the middle Of the word should
not have the sound Of .. lie was wrong.
remarked that this Association of ministers
was not near so subject to criticism as an equal
number of lawyers would be. My profession is
far below the ministry in this respect. | stepped
In to hear lawsuit the next day after the Associa
ton had adjourned. One lawyer was making an
argument. He would spit upon the floor about
every two minutes. A public speaker should
never do this while speaking Another lawyer
then commenced an argument, and he took a
drink of water every few minutes. This is all
wrong. A speaker should never taste water
while speaking, unless be Is sick, and then he
ought not to speak, If he cln avoid it. | noticed
too, that the other lawyers, who were llsteningtO
these arguments, were sitting with their feet up
on the desks and tables, their heads thrown back
and they smoking cigars so vigorously that an
outsider would think the result Of the case must
depend, in their estimation, upon the vigor
thrown by them into the effort to make the room
unfit to be inhabited by decent men, saying moth
ing of the women present D. NJ.