Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1874-10-23

That a woman should, in many instances, look
upon such man rs little less than God, and
come to regard him almost her only solace
amid the daily accommodating trials OF her life is
as natural as 10 10 for water to run down hill
That she should respect him more than she can
brutal husband-that half-an-hour OF his So
ciety should be worth more to her heart and
self respect than the miserable years OF her
bondage to cruel master-is also entirely nat
ural. He cannot help it, nor can he find temp
tation in It, unless he chooses to do 80. Women,
under these circumstances, do not go to their
pastors either to tempt or be tempted.
There is another class Of women who are
thrown, or who throw themselves, into what may
be called an intimate association with the clergy.
II is class that have nothing else to do no
pleasant to be petting some nice man, to
whose presence and society circumstances give
them admission. They are very harmless set
gushing maiden ladies, aged and dis
| Greet widows with nice houses, senti-
| mental married women who, with 10 brains to
| lend, are fond of borrowing them for the orna-
mentation Of all possible social occasions.
popular minister receives great deal of worship
| from this class Mt which, wheni il not too rk
some, we have no doubt he quietly laughs. The
good old female parishioner who declared that
| her pastors cup of tea would be Z" none to good
If it were all molasses, was fair type OF these
sentimental creatures, to whom every minister
| possessing the grace of courtesy is fair game.
| To suppose that pastor sufficiently putty-head
| ed to be pleased with this sort of worship, or
sufficiently manly to be bored by it, is in field
Of temptation to unchastity, is simply absurd
One Is too feminine for such temptation, and the
| other altogether too masculine.
When these two classes are set aside, what have
| we left yirtuous and contented mothers of vir-
tuous daughters-daughters whom he baptizes in
their infancy trains i'll his Sunday-school, narrlea
when they are married and buries with sympa-
thetic tears when they die In such families as
these his presence is benodiction,
and to suppose that he is tempted here,
is to suppose him brute and to deny
the facts of human nature. We verify believe
there is no class in the community so little tempt
ed as the clergy, and there certainly is no class
surrounded on every side with such dsuasyet
from unchaste conduct. To Clergyman, inilu
ence and good name are inestimable treas
ures. To stand before coniding audiences sun
day after Sunday, and preach that which hi
knows condemns himsefin the eyes of a singh
member Of his flock. must be q crucihxion iron
whose fortunes the bravest man would shrink
! There arc bad men in the pulpit without doubt
There il now and then woman who would no
l shrink from an intrigue with such, but womel
= do not choose ministers for lovers nor do minis
ters, las class, find themselves subjected to grea
= temptations by them. Ii ministers are tempte'
| by the circumstances OF their Office, they may b
I sure that they are moved by their own lust am
enticed and that their office may very profitabl
spare their services.
T. As a class, the Christian ministers OF til
! country are the purest men we have. We be
lieve they average better than the Apostles di
G at the first. Jesus, in his little company q
II twelve, found one that was devil. The worl
, has improved until, we believe, there is nc
more than one devil in a hundred. In any scar
y dal connected with the name of clergyman an
n a female member of his flock the probabilitie
n are all and always in favor Of his innocence
The man Of the world who keeps his mistress
the sensualist who does not believe in the pur
~ of my man, the great community of SCAMP
y and scalawags, are always ready to believe an,
Q thing rejecting upon clergyman's chastity.
only remains for clergymen themselves to J
careful to avoid the appearance Of evil. Notl
: ing can be more sure and terrible than the
J. punishment when guilty OF prostituting their o
flee, and nothing is so valuable to them as q
unsulled name. To preserve this, no painstal
ing can be too fatiguing, no sef-denial too G,
j. pensiye, no wedding out Of all untoward assoc
le atoms too exactng.-Dr. j. q. Holland,
d Scribner's for November