Connecticut western news., 1871-10-13
Shepherds and theirlFlOcks.

spiritual as it is possible to make it. The physician may be, and in multitudes of cases IS, the dearest family friend but he lives by his profession, and his services have recognized money value which he expects to receive without 0 question. He would prefer, perhaps, to render his services without reward, especially to those whom he loves but he has mouths to feed and provision to make for rainy days, and for the help lessness that comes at last to all. So, though love and sympathy, and self de- nial for love and sympathy's sake may have actuated him in all his daily round of duty, he goes home at night and takes down his b1otter, and enters his charges as formally as if he hsd been selling farm produce or tin ware.
 There is feeling in many parishes that it is a gift by whatsoever any pastor may be profted by them-that pastor earns nothing, and that in all things he is the beneficiary of the parish. To make this matter a thousand times worse, there are pastors not a few who take the position to which the parishes assign them, and assist in perpetuating the mistake They are men whose hands are always open to receive whatever comes who delight in donation par ties, and who grasp right and left, with unsuitable greed, at gifts. They be- come so mean-spirited that they do not like to pay anything. They are sponges upon their people and the community. Wherever they happen to be, they ''lie down " on the brethren. There is noth ing of value that they are not glad to receive, and there is nobody that they are not glad to be indebted to for fayors. Sometimes they are extravagant, and have graceless way of getting into debt, out of which they are helped yearly. The abiect meanness into which he can descend, find too ire quent illustrations among the American ministry It is shocking and sickening that there are some men who seem forced by their parishes to live in this way, and it is still more discomforting to find men who seem tolerably com fortable and contented while living in this way. If man is fit to preach he is worth wages. If he is worth wages, they should be paid with all the business regularity that is demanded and enforced in business life. There is no man in the community who works harder for the money he receives than the faithful minister. There is no man in whose work the community is in- terested-to whom regular wages, that shall not cost him a thought, are so i'm portant. Of what use in pulpit can any man be whose weeks are frittered away in mean cares and dirty economies Every month, or every quarter-day, ev- i cry pastor should be sure that there will be placed in his hands, as his just wages, money enough to pay all his ex- penses. Then. without sense of spe- cial obligation to anybody, he can preach the truth with freedom, and prepare for his public ministrations without distraction. Nothing more cruel to pastor, or more disastrous to his work can be done than to force upon him feeling of dependence upon the charities of his flock. The office of such man does not rise in dignity above that of court-fool. He is the creature of the popular whim, and the preacher without influence to those who | do not respect him or his office sufficient ly to pay him the wages due to a man who devotes his life to them. Manl1- ness cannot live in such man, except it be in torture-a torture endured sim ply because there are others who de- pend upon the charities doled out to him.
 Good, manly pastors and preachers do not want gifts, they want wages. It is not kindness to eke out insufficient salaries by donation parties and by bene- factions from the richer members of the flock. It is not 8 merit, as they seem to regard it, for parishes or individuals to do this. It is an acknowledgement of indebtedness which they are too mean to pay in a business way. The pastor needs it and they owe it, but they take to themselves the credit of benefactors, and place him in an awkward and false position. The influence of this state of thing upon the world that lies outside of the sphere of Christian belief and activ- ity is beyond calculation. We have had enough of the patronage of Christianity by half-scofing, half-tolerating world If Christians do not sufficiently recog- nize the legitimacy of the pastors call ing to render him fully his just wages, and to assist him to maintain his manly independence before the world, they must not blame the world for looking upon him with a contempt that forbids approach and precludes influence. The world will be quite ready to take the pastor at the valuation of his friends, and the religion he teaches at the price its professors are willing to pay, in a business way, for it's ministry.-Dr. F C. HoHa7ad i7a iScribneq's Monthly for Co., to6er.
 THE DROWNING OF THE CAPTAIN OF THE BRITANNIA. long ago, Captain Mcdonald, of the steamer Europa, on a nip from Liverpool to New York, was washed off the wheelhouse by heavy sea and drowned. J. c. McClelland was one of the mates of that steamer, and upon him devolved the command of the ship. Arriving in Liverpool he was made captain of the Britannia. On the last voyage of that vessel to New York she experienced heavy weather. On the 22d ult., while party were standing on the quarter deck, tremendous sea struck the vessel, knocking the whole party of their feet. One of the passengers was about to be washed overheard, but Cap tain McClelland sprang to her assistance. He saved her, but in doing so, lost his poise, and went overheard himself, and was drowned. Life-preservers were thrown out, and boats were lowered, but he was not seen after he fell into N the water. The steamship arrived at # New York under command of the mate T GUN SHOT WoUNDs.-A gentleman from this country, who was in Germany during the war with France, and had opportunity to see much of the treat ment for the wounded says "At one of the hospitals the mode of dressing was to clean the wound gently from the outside, not allowing the fluid to enter deeply: then covering of zinc foil, lint above this, and the whole bound with adhesive plaster. The results from this mode of dressing seemed perfectly mar ualln11s and aulaid all tha iroonuon.