The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-10-05
Y OIL. XIII.
Shepherds and Their E1ocks.

when pastors and people fail to cstablis
and maintain between each other busi
ness relation just as independent of tn
spiritual as it is possible TO make it. Tn
physician may be, and in multitudes 0
instances is, the dearest family friend: bu
he lives by his profession, and his service
have a rccogn' zed money value which h
expects to receive without question. 4,
would prefer, perhaps, to render his servi
ces without reward, especially to thos'
whom be loves; but lie has mouths to fec
and provisions to make for rainy davs, anC
for the DAYS Of hclplcssness that come a
last to all. 50, though love and sympathy
and self-denial for love and sympathy.
sake may have actuated him in all h. daily
round Of duty, he goes home at night, take.
down his blotter, and enters his charges a.
formally as if he had been selling farm
produce or tinwarc.
There is feeling in many parishes tha
II Is gift by whatsoever any pastor ma,
be prohteI by them: that a pastor earn.
nothing, and that ia all things he is the
beneficiary Of the parish. TO make this
matter thousand times worse, there arc
pastOrs-nOt a.few-who take the position
to which the parish assign them, and assist
in rorpetlating the mistake. They
are men whose hands are always open tC
receive whatever comes; who delight in do,
nation parties, and who grasp right and
left, with Unsuitable greed, at gifts. They
become so mean-spirited that they do not
like 10 pay for anything, and do not really
think 1t right that they should be called
upon to pay for anything. They arc
sponges upon their people aud the commu-
nifty. Wherever they happen to be, they
g he down on the brethren. There is
nothing Of value that they are not glad to
receive, and there is nobody that thcv are
not glad to be Indebted to for favors
Sometimes they are cxtravagant, and have
a gracclcsS way Of getting into debt, out OF
which they are helped yearly, and ont of
which they expect to be helped yearly.
The ahiect mcanness into which pastor
can sink, and the corresponding and con
sequent powerlessness into which he can
descend, find too frequent Illustration
among the American ministry. 1t is
shocking and sickcning that there are some
men who seem forced by their parishes to
live in this way, and it is still more disgust
Ing to find men who seem tolerable com
Portable and contcnted while living in this
way. If a man is fit 70 preach he IS worth
wages. lfhc Is worth wages, they should
be paid with all tie business regularity
that is demanded and enforced in business
life. There Is no man in the community
vino works bar.lnr for tbo mon. hn -
ccivo. thnn tbn f,,4ff,I minister rL,~o !.
no n,ain ,ybaso orl, tho carr,,,;+,- : :
intcrc>ted-to whom regular wages, that
shall not cost him a thought, are 50 impor-
tar+. Of What nos.ibIe iIsr in = ,,nIIit can
auy man he whose weeks arn frittoi awar
in mean cares and dirty economies ,
Every month, or every uuartcr-dav, evarv
ua,t1r sbouIj Lp s,,rp flat tbprc viii he
Il,co.I !, ~. I,rI. ~ III, NJ ,'.,..,..
nn,o,. c,o.,,l, ~ w., ~ ~. o,-,'l.'7'7,..
TLcn. witboHt , snns, IF -ncl;aI cl,lirarfon
to anyl,lv hn n. ,,raac}, thn +rnrI v;.%
freedom. a,l nr,1,arl for lis mill Minis
tr,,f;ons withnnt .rs+ra~tiot EotI;r
,,,,,.. ,r,,.I +, !, ,,,.tn,. -, ~ .I:.,.,r,,.
- h;s work c.,, i. Ion. ~, +, r,ro. mo,
I'm . f.,,;n,, If ,l.,,,.,, p,n..,,a,, ,.,.,-
;+;ns rs, ti1,.r tt'a ,fs,,, .iif ..,,at, -,
gocs not rise in I;,.,itv ,L.ya tha. of !.
court fool. He is the creature Of the ron
ular whlm. and ura, I;rr without iana-
cuca to those who 10 not respect him or
his office sufficiently to pay him the wages
due to a man who lcyotes his life to them
Manlincss cannot live in such man, cX-
ccpt it he in torturc-a torture endured
simply because there are Others who depend
upon the charities Loled out to him.
Good, manly pastors and preachers do
not want Gifts. thry waut Nyaccs II !,