The St. Cloud journal., 1871-04-13
BEEFsTEAK FOR MINISTER'S.
BY T. DE WITT TALMAGE.

From the New York Independent.
There have been lately several elab-
crate articles remarkiuy upon what
they call the lack Of force aud fire in
the clergy. The world wonders that,
with such rcusing theme as the Cos
pei, and with such a grand work as sav.
iog souls, the ministry should ever be
nerveless. Some asc:ibe it to lack of
piety, and some to timidity Of tempera.
ment. We believe that in a great
number of cases 1t is from the lack of
nourishing food. Many of the clerical
brotherhood are on low diet. After
jackets and sacks have been provided
for the eight or ten children Of the
parsonage, the father and mother must
watch the table with severest economy.
Coming in suddenly upon the dinner
hour Of the country clergyman, the
housewife apologies for what she calls
"a picked-up" dinner, when, alas ! it is
nearly al ays picked-up.
Eight hundred or thousand dollars
for minister is only slow way Of Kill
ling him, aud is the worst style Of
homicide. Why do not the trus-
tees aud elders take mallct or an Ak,
aud with one blow put him out Of his
misery?
Congregations sometimes mourn over
dull preaching Wien themselves az to
blame. Give your minister more beef
st TAX, and he will have more fire. Next
to the divine JUNCTION, the minister
needs blood ard he caanot make that
out OF ugh leather. One reason why
the apostles preached SO powerfully
was that they had healthy food. Fish
WIS cheap along Galilee, and this, with
unbolted bread, gave them plenty Of
phosphorus for brain-food. These early
ministers were never invited out to late
suppers, with chicken salad and duugh-
nuts. Nobody ever embroidered Slip
pers for the big foot of Simon Peter,
the fisherman preacher. Tea parties,
with hot wafles, at ten o'clock at night,
make namby-pamby ministers; but good
hours and substantial diet, that furnish
nitrates for the muscle, and phosphates
for the brain, and carbonates for the
whole frame, prepare a man for eAeo-
tive work. When the water is low the
mill-&heel goes slow but full race,
and how fast the grists are ground. In
a man the arteries are the mill-race, and
the brain the wheel l.; and the practical
work Of life is the grist ground. The
reason our soldie.s failed in some OF the
battles was because their stomachs had
for several days been innocent of every
thing but "hard-tack." See that your
minister has full haversack. Feed
him on cruel during the week, and on
Sunday he will give you Cruel. What
is called the "parson's nose" in turkey
or fowl is an allegory setting forth that
in many communities the minister
comes out behind.
The damage begins in the college
boarding-house. The theological student
has generally small means, and he must
go to cheap clearinghouse. A frail
piece of sausage trying to swim across a
river of gravy on the breakfast-plate,
but drowned at last "the linked sweet.
ness long-drawn out" Of flies in the me-
lases cup; the gristle of a tough OK,
and measly biscuit, and buckwheat
cakes tough as the cooks apron, and
old peas in which the bugs lost their
life before they had time to escape from
the saucepan, and stale cucumbers cut
up into small slices of cholera morbus,
are the provender out of which We are
trying at Princeton aud Yale and New
Brunswick to make Sons of Thunder.
Sons of nushsI From such depletion We
step gasping into the pulpit, and look
SO heavenly pale that the mothers IN
Israel are afraid We will evaporate be.
fore We get through our first sermon.
! osasiusa en Fssrtb Psxe.