The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-09-24
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The Latest Fashion In Olergymen.


He believes that q religion is not
the gloomy and formal thing that il
is made out to be in seminaries. in
seminaries. pale. knock -kneed young
men, with long hair. hollow chests
and bad digestions, eat Graham crack
ers, and read Jonathan Edwards and
practice the writing Of elaborate SER
mons, and never take walk, aud are
afraid of q horse, and wear black
coats, and blush painfully when young
women look &C them.
No; religion is a cheerful thing.
So be wears q mOustaehe. He says
nothing for bids the devoutcst follower
of Christ to keep his liver in good
order, and that, III fast trotter con-
duces to that effect, why he shall get
one. He holds that the weaker
brethren are very weak, if they think
his glass of vino is worse for him
than their strong coffee is for them.
Why should not sinner set forth to
his fellow sinners the Infinite merits
of the Savior without tying mp his
neck in white muslin2 So he valIantIy
turns down his shirt collar; and his
conservative deacons are lucky if he
does not wear q necktie of some light
shade, and smoke cigars IN the out
skirts of the village.
When be meets the inidel tailoE, he
does not pass By him with an air Of
mingled pain and rebuke which causes
the ill-tempsred little scoundrel to-
blaspheme moro hideously than ever,
and to bawl out TO his sad-eyed vile,
a believer yoked with an unbeliever,
that there goes another of her infer
nal hypoerite parsons. Ga the con-
trary, he stops genially at the shop
window; gees further In pointing out
errors In orr version of the Scriptures
than Tom Paine himself. tho taiIor's
favorite author; gets his measure taken
for a coat; makes thelittle blasphemer
think to himself. Well, anyhow, this
ain's one Of your hollow chested
croakers like old Smith, or young
Skimps, or that Merkes; points out
then, that through this and that and
q thousand more errors may be alleged
By the scotfer and freely admitted by
the believer, the eternal truths of the
Blbla are still as near the tailor's
soul, and of as tremendous import
ance 70 1t as ever, gives the tailor's
sol q lesson IN boxing. leaves the
tailor IN the shop, and, going into the
back parl0T, prays with the tailor's
wife-not O dry set prayer like
Skimp's, but heartfelt talk with his
Father, which the tailor hears through
the door; and he comes out, gets a
light for his cigar from the infdel's
pipe recommends him to procure
such and such a brand of Tobacco,
and goes away leaving Skepticus badly
staggered, and on the high road to
Sunday clean shirts and surreptitious
attendance &C evening meetiDgs.
The Live Man in the ministry never
breaches; he talks, Christ Is not to
him an abstraction, he says. but his
hesh-and- blood brother, who loves to
be addressed familiary. So, when
and praying, he il not
averse 10 a little slang it
is not of the kind called Sermonese.
What harm is there in a joke from
the pulpit In Short the new limo
thy is usually ayoung gentleman with
more blood than brains; with more
ability to talk hHently than capa city
for thinking about as spiritual minded
rs a stock broker, aud not 50 we'll
as learned as a magazine
writer. aud as wittyas a sophomore;
as noisy as stump speaker; as dis
pleasing q person to anybody who
likes spiritual and moral teachers to
70 0fielear heads and clean hearts as
any person that can we'll be conceived