Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-05-17

What He Was and What He WASN'T
a. Described In the Doctors Psi Up.
silOM Poem Delivered at New H0.
| ven.
] While be receives, with laying ON Of hands,
| The Office of pastor Of the flock
| That gathers close around, to interlock
It's life with his. and in obeisance sweet,
| To track the leadinHs Of his careful feet
The years pass on. and great multitude
See him grow gray at last in doing good.
And find in him a character whose light
Shines round him like candle in the night,
O happy man. There is no man like thee.
Worn out in revere of humanity! 49,
Still working on through all thy failing years.
And dead at last. mid universal tears:
Thy name fragrance in the speakers BREATH
thus have Brought hly pastor to your VIEW
Now let me tell yen wha, ne did hds not do
BY seeking calls and flirting with church
He never got his name in public print,
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To grace the pulpit in another town,
And thus 10 break dozen peoples rest
And find himself enjoyed with fresher zest.
OF az the trifers thu. the world have cursed
The man who plays with calls as cats with mice
Or CANDLES with them as with loaded dice,
TO push himself and plot for power and pence.
There are some ministers, grieye to say
He was not one OF them-who have way
OF bringing out their nice ornamental faces
.. On great oeSaslons and in public Places,
That furnish forth our intellectual dishes
Ali the broad platforms within fifty miles
Have borne their forms and blossomed with their
smiles.
They mirg,e with the evergreens and roses
The same Old glasses and the same old noses
At lectures. courts, conventions and ovations
As most familiar platform decorations.
And in the caIy papers one may
That Reverend Mr.. So-and-So, ID. d,
Either .'pres ided with accustomed grace"
Or on the platform had an honorej place
These be our men Of weight-for boon or bale
Measured in public 10y the platform scale,
There was another thing he did not do
This best of ministers I've ehown to you
He did not drop his pride of manhood down
I'LL he could curry favor like clown;
| Or take a benefaction nothing 10th
FROM sneerlng wordllngs who despised his cloth
| he did not claim for groceries or rent
A discount clerical of ten per cent
He did not run his neckcloth for fare
On railroads, as he travelled here and there,
Came to regard it as a railroad tie
He did not claim, or privilege or pelf,
Through honor to his Office for himself:
But from his stawart youth to falling age
He did his honest work for honest wage,
And held the panper spirit under ban
And paid his bills like any other man.
he never was the pet of women no,
The sweet and sensuous magnetsms that how
From sy sympathetic heart and kindling brain
Religious partly, partly base and vain
Found never birth in hin-vipers at best
Or, If they did, he crushed them in their nest.
Oh, cleric captor Of the female heart,
Acting thy foul and most upchristian part
Know st thou some gentle hearted devotee
Who greatly likes to be alone with theey
Some wife or mother in a melting mood,
Some comely sprig Of youthful widowhood,
Some maiden lady quite beyond her teens
Kneel for yourself, and say your humble prayers,
Then brisEly rise and show her down your stairs.