Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-05-25
Shall the Preacher Strike?


= When? When he has been urged by
the brethren tp!enter intoa certain dis
trict to proclaim the gospel with the as
surance that his wants should be suppli-
ed-or that sswe will pay you s-monthr S
ly in advance" but after months have
passed and the preacher having labcred
faithfully, facing the bleak storms to
make his appointments, and the brethren
having been made to rejoice while he
has spoken of the goodness Of God-sin-
ners, trembling, bow to the authority. of
Christ, while his (the Preachers fam
ilv1 have spent long, weary days and
nights in wearyness and poverty, and
the promise of the brethren not Kept.
Shall the preacher strike !? When?
When he rises before large finely dress
ed audience, and in looking round to see
to whom he is to speak, sees there the
face of the merchant who sold him goods
under a promise that he would pay for
them at certain time ;ohi another seat
just opposite, he sees the tailor who had
furnished him three months ago with the
very coat henow wears under the spec
ial lpromise that he;would receive his pay
in one month; q little to the left he sees
that very necnanic that he had promised
to pay for that furniture two months ago,
and that miller and grocer, sitting side
by side q. See those significant motions
of the head and eye-what does it mean?
Won can; almost hear themsay sshonesty,"
-s.speak the truth,''1' ori'I think he had
better pay his honest debts" His heart
sickens and he turns, away, but his eye
catches in turn the tailor, the merchant,
the mechanic, all are, enforcing the same
thoughts loiiie to his sad heart.
Shall the Preacher strike? When?
When he sees as result of these things
that his Influence is on the decline his
reputation suffering, and his heart almost
broken. sAa1e 'nt 49, ''' q
But shall the Preacher strike? When?
Why, when he looks round upon the
congregation of brethren so gailya and
fashionably dressed in such costly apparel
and their comfortable and finely furnished
houses. and the RICH variety with-which
their tables ares loaded down and from
theselohis thoughts carry, chim IN mo-
ment to the humble cot where his own
loved ones are, seated around the scanty
board, half, clothed and really suffering
for the necessaries of life ',s.,aes.s bad
/ say shall the preacher strike? WHAT
for? For what the brethren have prom
ised him upon which he was Influenced
to contract debts to procure an outfit
and which is ,uppaid and as for eonse-
quenses he is rendered. unfit for study,
and unfit for society His sad heart rem
ders him, unable to cheer and comfort
those with whom he associates. What
say you? Shall ne Predchel. strike?
Mallory fthe barque Osceolae Sd,
of New Bedford. a whaler had a bit Of old fash
ioned experience with large sperm whale last
December He tried to catch him IN the usua !
way, whenIthe' old fellow smashed one boat in
TO kindling wood, knocked the bottom out OF
another, belly injured the third,5 then made tor
the ship and struck it and knocked OF the cut
water and giving the vessel an Irish hoist Inc,
old chap wasseaught the liext day; and fouad
to be sixty-feet long !; his, Hover jaw was badly
fractured from contact With the ship u made
FITS barrels OF oil The light was the most N
terestng on record FOR some sltne-