New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-11-03

The Wrong THAT Is Done to Ciergym
CempeIifn9 Then TO Beg,

AA1MD ON0EAYNu
CsmpeIling Then to Bog.
1.-THE Country Parsohs p in Frassr,s Maeaziner
Painful IS is the plan of a few private
persons, holding no oficial place, ergi un
known to the law or the constitution nif< !
ting in Judgment on the work of 4 sith
tul man equal to any one Of them u lee =
in respect OF. worldly wealth, still nlora
abhorrent is the disposition, growing very
apparent, to gauge clergyman's dig aee
by the quantity of money he can SOU sxe
out Of his parishioners in the form Of Ib-
scriptions for missionary and hun ne
ends. Here the energetic CONNIE ,iaI
traveller, the pushing bagman-parson, yiii
triumphantly carry all before him. re
you wish TO see by what arts people are
concussed or induced to buy things hey
don't want, read DIR. Smiles interes NJ
"Life of George Moore, Merchant nd 4
Philanthropist, Just published; and hen
consider whether you would like to ave
a clergy as pushing, as artful, as CROSS
grained, as, Moore vas in his bag ran
days. The thielruem Of that mans In,
in q mcfgf sense was not 70 be EXPIRE ed
| in inches. The way IN which be yot
orders from traders who did not wal 10
give them, the insolsnce he took Cd
naturedly, the vulgar lodges to whiel 10
worthy man condescended fill one ID
wonder but not at all with admiration If
it was not painful for Moore, in his o.
ored age, to look back on what / 9 I'd
gone through to push business and ke
money it must have been becsui he
thickness Of skin needed for that q III
time abode with him permanently. PEI lie
| swoTe at him and ordered him out OF t 5ir
shops when he came in with his sanp 8,
1 I..k L. kooI
| again, till he got his order, Evenao i'd
| an energetic clergyman, eager in tie sup
/ port of q good work, once go TO q ma Of
| vast wealth and state the claims ii lis
| good work and ask large subscr pit "a.
i The answer was brief; it was curIor it
was in the nature of an anathema; nd the
energetic clergyman was shown chs ddoz.
But happily his skin was thick as &c rga
Moore's, and the rich man's heert wat
right, as, indeed, was his head, too ,hf
undismsyed parson returned to the Oh srga
after due saason; and he got q most gag
nifcent Y1m. Itis well, indeed, tbs sue
undismyaed parsons should be; bttt =,
would desire that they should be tat
ception, and not the rule. Further,
rich man was very rich. But the hum
bagman-parson may have to go TO m
not nearly 80 rich; and may have TO tai
bad language for far less than ten thSS
and pounds Besides, that push1L
preacher saw the rich man for the one
the humble bsgman-parson might have
live daily among such as had ordered hi
from their presence with vehement spe
and with such his usefulness would
done. For it is desirable thai =
man be liked by his hoek; i IS eha
necessary that he be respsCtaa
are those, Q good many, who Fc
) | take the rich mans money wifl #
3 compartments; who, in fact, 81 ut
Of their nature, could not Rh
yourself q quiet, scholarly iaE
2 v0ut spirit, incapable of usin
! ! going to try TO get money o.
I against their will; coming Il
1 ence Of the man to be squeez
9 bad Jokes and insincere aattsl
: playing on his weaknesses pr
Q subscription paper, and posi-
4 ing with half-ciyil rebuff
2 work for scholar or clereyn
: must be got, no donbt; bu.
8 from unwilling givers is 4 hunt
9 deplorable necessity; let those 90
Q whose vocation it is Assured
3 mot with the purpose 10 give them
3 such work that the devoutast a,
8 cultivated among the clergy nad
y of their profession. Il was u son
4 to be nd Of ignoble worldly W
3 earth, earthly, Of the Exchange
y that is to be the kind Of thlng, laE us :.
y where we shall have our ebance cl
. material rewards of it