The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-24
MISCELLANY.
CURIOUS EXPERIENCE OF CLERGY
MEN IN MAKING IWO ONE.
From Appleton's Journal.

From Appleton's Journal.
When the collector of rare and curious
specimens of insects. and flowers, and
minerals, finds new objects of interest, he
sticks pin in them, or puts them in alco.
ihol, or labels them, and then sits down
to count his collections, and see what he
has actually gathered. In the same way
we may stick pins in the various expe-
riences of life, and thus collect museum
of rare specimens. The present collec-
ton Of neutrality-suspicious. are specimens
of eccentricities at this trying hour that
have come across the writers path. We
see plenty of curious epithets in cemeter-
les; let us look at some wedding scenes
as strange as any of these.
A young clergyman, at the first wed.
ding be ever had, thought it was a very
good time to impress upon the couple be-,
fore him the solemnity of the act.
- Il hope, Dennis,'' he said to the coach.
man, with his license in his hand, 'syou
have we'll considered this solemn step in
ife.''
81 hope 50, your reverence" answered
Dennis.
Its very important step you re
taking, Mary. said the minister.
49, eyes, sir, know it is, replied Mary,
, Whispering. ''Perhaps we had better
wait while.
"Pcrhaps we had. your riverence,'
;himed in Dennis.
The minister hardly expecting such
personal application of his exhortation,
md seeing the .fve:dollar note vanishing
before his eyes, betook himself to more
cheerful aspect of the situation and said !:
Eyes, Of course it s solemn and impor.
ant, you know, but it's very happy
lime, after all, when people love each
other. Shall we 90 on with the service g.
4 Eyes, your riverence,' they both re-
A olied, and they were soon made one in
4 he bonds Of matrmony, and that young
y minister lis now very careful how he
forings on the solemn view of marriage to
simid couples.
A party came to a clergyman house
% be married. Every thing went On har-
noniously until the woman came to the
word "obey'' in the service Here a
>alky scene ensued.
s*Never--never! she said, II did not
viii never say it!'
'Oh, DEAR demonstrated her partner,
do not make trouble now. Just say 1t
.-soy it even if you don't mean it. Say
for my sake-.-for your dear John S
ake!"
sNever-never!'' insisted the high
I-pirited dame. 81 never will say what l
10 not mean, and do not mean to obey.
You must 90 on, SIR she added, to the
lergymais, "without that word.'
''That is impossible, madam replied
he minister. Il cannot marry you un.
ass you promise TO love, cherish, and
hey your husband" d d
"Won't you leave us for while to.
ether q lnterceded the young man. 81
hink I can manage her after a while.'
50 the. minister went back into his
tudy, and wrote on his sermon for an
,our and half, and finally, at a quarter
vast 10 O'Clock, there
As of some one gently rapping.
Ind the mild-mannered benedict inform
d the parson that at last, after long
wrestling of spirit, his .''dear jane had
onzented to say s'ohey.'' But how that
ompromise was brought about, no one
yer knew.
have often heard this same clergy.
aan relate how, after a wedding cermony
n one occasion, which occurred in his
I wn parlor, the husband whispered to his
rand-new bride, as they approached thu
oor, ''Mary, have you got any small
hanger
The old Swede's church IN Philadel
,hia was the famous marrying'ground fo1
early two hundred years 10 all tn
eighborhood and the churches in tina
Ticinity. The record.book of that ven
rable parish is teem,ng with marriages
here has to be an ''extension' made t.
hat department in every new register
Totes and memoranda adorn the pages o
he 'wedding-colum explanatory Q
he different couples. One clergyman
ept a list of foreign sailors with a wifi
cry probably at every large port) an
anaway country girls whom he had re