The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-02-06

as possible 10 Their pursu I of the game
1t home. To oppose such indulgence, only
made the boy more eager. This he could
prove by many instances, and recalled the
Instance of the old deacon, who wondered
why his sons should love Hoyle more and
Barnes less. This was because they were
ordered to study Barnes notes and not to
play cards. The speaker had no faith at
all in the system based on a %subjugation of
passion for amusement. 1t could not
be repressed without injury to the boy, and
therefore, should be carefully handled.
Many fathers were governing their boys
like dogs, never explaining their commands,
but giving the blow instead. He related a
circumstance Of a man in New York city,
who gave his children bread and water
tor laughing at the supper table, and sad.
this man was an elder in the Presbyterian
church. How his children must love to
hear him pray He related the story of
the boy who inquired if the Bible taught
people to be cruel, and gave his reason for
the inquiry, by saying, that his father al
ways quoted the Bible while laying it
on" This spirit seemed to be hereditary,
bad traits of character were handed down
from father to son far better than any
other. lie related n touching circumstance
that occurred on visiting with a friend, the
grave Of the latter's father, when the
friend had recalled, with much emotion and
reverence, the fact that when his father
was buried the pastor had said, he had
raised seven boys from infancy to manhood
without striking a blow. This man, said
the speaker, should have a monument upon
which no better inscription could be in
scribed than the words of the pastor. Alas
for the fact that we should be harsh to
those we love ; for the principle of being
indifferent to our wife, and polite to
the wife of every body else. Alas for the
memories that will come to us all, when
far away from those we love, staring us
in the face and cmbittcring our every day
lite.
My creed, said the speaker, is that all
should. have a perfect physique. 1t had
become the greatest adherence to ladies to
be considered stout, and nothing would dis
please them more than to say to them, How
strong and healthy you look The speak
er had made the blunder once he should
never try it again. This fashion had gone
throughout all society. The minister was
not allowed to appear rs other men, with
out being attacked. lie must be as effem-
mate rs a woman, with no tan upon his
cheek, and clerical piety, had become to be
considered as an exponent Of weakness
while stoutness was a sure sign of a hereto
stomach within. They were not allowed
to break through the old established doc
trines laid down. They must have a
knowledge of books and not of men. The
great vice of the age was a%rtifice, in SEEM
ing what weare not. Simple and unadorned
beauty is tabooed. Men who do mot exer-
else these tricks are looked upon with
suspicion and deemed eccentric. The vice
of Greece and of France was fickleness
that of Germany skepticism ; of England,
selfshness-a sponge that sucks in all else
to itself. Twelve years ago, when the
speaker dared TO enter n pulpit dressed like
Il layman, he was looked upon with suspi-
clon and called a black sheep, or a spotted
one, at least. Ministers must be a ring
among themselves because public opinion
had made it so. No man, said the speaker,
is so f%orciful, no woman so beautiful, as
when natural. We do not have to teach a
child to laugh but it comes spontaneous
and natural. Our ministers are too often
taught to preach as their gradfather's
preached, their sermons are alike and, said
he, between you and me, are the same ones.
Why was it that our ministers were so dull
in the pulpit and so good at conversation
in the parlor They are weak because
they are not natural, while in the parlor
they are themselves. What must be done
with them ? Undo what you have done.
Take your finger out of their necktie. Tell
them to be natural. Let them go to the
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mother of us all. Let them dress like other
men.
Lastly, the speaker believed in charity.
He had enemies but could see no triumphs
in beating back. This triumph his enemies
had never had. In spite of all their attacks
he could truly say he had never hated a
living soul. He was at peace with nature
and with man. He knew well what toll
From ten to thirty years he had not
a dime unearned. At Yale Col
ege he could count up four months when
he amount of his expenses was So cts per
week. His textbooks were bought by pri-
His body had been allowed to suf-
'er that his mind might grow. He had
'een permitted to enjoy some triumph in
he world. and had been often rudely set
lpon, yet he could in charity overlook all
UGH attacks. He then closed with an elo-
luent peroration, ~apostrophizing charity as
he most beautiful of virtues, and taking
hat as his creed.
n Melancholy Case.
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