The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-12-17
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THE VACANT PARISH.
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A story Pounded on Facts.
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During these long two years, my
dears, we were still without minister
Of our own. One came on the first
Sunday of every third month from
the neighboring parish, about sixty
miles distant, and once a year the
Bishop never failed to come and cheer
us~with his presence. I must now
tell you, briefly, how I had managed
to get along, from the time Of my re-
turn in the September after the de-
parture of Mr.. Marshall up to the
times1of the arrival Of my yCongrega-
tional importation from Brookfern.
: One of the pupils having died and
the parents not being on terms with
the only Protestant minister then
in Chatterwild, a Methodist, the
other pulpits being at the time all
vacant, we were in great quandar.y'
about what should be done. To get
slhezRev. MI. Cleveland, sixty miles
dist distant, IN time, the whole distance
J being 4hysatsse: and the roads 1t their
very worst condition after two weeks
iain, was nearly impossible. This
was the first time such a complica-
zion Of circumstances had beset nae.
Without telling Ware Of my 'unfha;
inine intention, so as to secure his
absence fromsthe scene of my first
public ministrations, I determined
chat the child should not 60 without
Christian burial, merely out of the
pugnacity and bad-neighborship Of
its not oyer-Christian parents. Ae-
@cordingly, with much trepidation,, I
announced my willingness to read the
7burial-service. The only thing I stip-
u1ated was that the usual grand pa.
rade OF wagons and other teams
should not be made, and that only the
few personal friends of the family
should be notified of the hour. MY
poor voice shook like an aspen leaf
but I; mastered 1t, and concluded: the
service, saying the 1committa1 and al
at the house. =. After the service
madesm1 way hastily home eIby ,an
uhfrequented street, hardly aarihr to
lift my eyes all the way; and II
once when home, told Mr.. Angleses
ofs1ny aadacity.%, r. Z
my dear" said he "whate~oaldn't
you do' What will you do next? p:
And some otter things lie said te
me that I cain not profane BY commit
ting to paper and besides. = :sgR6dtd ~
many Of my readers have never beer
| young matrie.11rf6 f6olk; and i fear the,
wouldnnly;iaash atathsnda, it Il did
and as for those Of you who hay.
been, why, Of course, you know II
about it; and 80 what use would &ther'
be d: ny doing 90? j.:
The next Sunday morning a preco
cious member of the infant class rub
bed his head against the door pos
as'I entered the room,> with the re
mark, 600 planted little Johnny, did
Mt 90 p T. - =: .-S>
| My planting" of this child great,
displeased some of the chronic funer
al-goers, who were thus cheated ou
Of the pleasure of the picnic int
which a burial was usually converted
But it had most unexpected effec
in the quarter of the Dutch Brig. ]
there was any one thing: Mrs. Wi
kins did cordially dislike it was tn
| Methodist minister of Chatterwilc
! And now to see the minister afort
said checkmated, sas she <thought-
and "detr ten,ina tacti' (not that sh
expressed it 90. classically-but th,
was the idsa, she wa'ss greatly elstts;dl i
and, for the first time: since I ha
given het :greaa odsnce by, the ress
ton of the "rat-trap" without 90,
sulting her iimperial majesty, .ct:ttuall
condescnded te3giye- me. the fual
matter the next day with graciousnee
and even went % far. as to -rema1
upon the weather. I took all this :,
an omen of =, restoration Of pea
between US. 's4~', .-.s -
Lent camea 1ate thatyar ind T "
glad of it. Tor though ]. hda !dete
mined to take up my. y. cross, I car
= say that ! was ID haste to do 60,
3 had mapped out this diplomatic lit
pana j wouldscan my r Eentan .,
E vices : Sunday sf'eh5ol sefvtic,ss, t,s
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