The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-06-16

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POW der many times heavier than any foo
! is likely 10 later ou load Il with. Better,
they think, burst barrel now and then,
under safe circumstances. than allow any
, invisible flaw to take mean advantage OF
an inoautions boy in the future Bni
/ whether the like rule Of oyerharRinR the
, piece at tlie outset is an equally sound
one 10 try upon Juvenile ministers Of the
gospel at ordinations, not 20 speak OF
others undertaking new and grave respon.
sibilities, is more serions question. From
the accounts with which the ordinary
religious newspapers rcgale their readers,
OF the ecclesiastical method Of loading,
shotting, ramming homo and then dis.
charging on a given parish callow,
young theological iiedgling rational
wonder is awakened in the mind as to what
percentage of the human pieces thus
severely tested fail to burst the first time
The heaviest specimen of long.proved, old
ministerial ordnance would be infallibly
shattered to fragments, were il called upon
to explode within its chamber one.half the
amount Of celestial and demoniacal gun.
powder or to fling one-half the weight OF
solid iron ball and chain-shot logic that is
prescribed in the so-called 'charge TO the
pastor as the ammunition with which ho,
an utterly inexperienced youth, is expected
to load up and fire.
1t would seem as though the evil
one himself had had the original drafting
OF ordination programmes. They are the
masterpiece Of Satan. II anything more
diabolically devised for taking all hope
and courage out of young heart has ever
been invented, it would be hard TO name
it. For three mortal hours is the agony
piled on, till too often must sympathetic
spectator feel that, should the overwhelm.
ed victim in wandering miserably around
after the service was over, happen upon
broad backed old Atlas, bearing the bar.
den of the globe on his shoulders, he
would jump at the meeting as the happiest
conceivable chance for his first ministerial
exchange, and cry "Atlas, my boy, you
look trihe tagged, let's spell ono another;
Ill take a turn at the lucky old globe il
you will just do the same by my parish"
Now what is the good Of all such stu
pendious overdoingl A man is not gun
barrel, at his very strongest when first out
of the welding and polishing shop Of some
divinity school, Even the attempt at
hardening pups against cold by exposure
all night to an ont door temperature of 100
below zero has been abandoned. The
survival of the fttest was not found suni.
cient to keep up the line of breed. And
it may be seriously questioned whether
there will long be any apostolic succession
of ministers or school teachers in the land
unless wiser methods are resorted to. In
deed, teachers institutes are quite as
fragrant sinners in this respect as clerical
convocations. To stand by and see some
OF the artillery men of the Horace Mann
type load in and ram home the regulation
charge for an inexperienced young man or
girl OF 30, is enough to make any prudent
bystander hurry behind tree or stone
wall for his personal safety. The mere
amount of wad in the way of school
reports, pedagogical treatises, etc., it is
to cram in, is something APP
palling This will never do, and stop
ought to be put to it. 1t breaks down no
end to aspiring oung people. They think 1
the old fellows know all about it, and,
though nervously kicked fiat on their
backs by the recoil OF the first discharge,
suppose the only thing is to jump up, rub
their aching heads and backs and try it
again. The practical omnipotence of q
forces, the power OF single y
sunny smile to disperse any amount Of $
sullen storm clouds and dense fogs OF !
stupidity, the new patent way Of working u
up into silk purses illimitable quantities 5
If sows esrs-have not these sublime re- !
.lities been impressed on them in way t
% make them feel that they ought to turn I
,ut to order, in the schoolroom, Newtons C
n mind and st. Johns in department, as a
eadily and surely as bristle brushes are G
urned out in the factory over the way? II
Fair play! is the cry Of every Saxon b
leart. This putting tons weight Of iron 81
on the ministerial or teacher "
ide Of the scale, and an ounces weight u
n that Of people, pupils aud parents, can 81
My serve to keep the wretehed incum- a
ent fiat down to the ground. No fun is p
here in this sort OF blanching. Better 90 81
0 the children and see how they manage n
iatters when they slide a plank across a sc
snce for an exhilarating see saw. None b.
I your doctor OF divinity or teachers 81
istitute tom-foolery submitted TO here ca
ry to yseat 80 pounds Of boy or girl on 81
no end Of the plank and expect that re
Of ayoirdupois to strain and strug- W
lie with 100 pounds on the other end. No ca
lirl is heard ringing all around. The al
ute philosophers, well enough the whole ~
In Of the tilt lies, in mutual, happy
,nse Of "Sow We go upi upl up and now
ow we go down down. down." And the II,
kc law must hold good Of schools and a
arishes. To put one lone young man or co
oman on one end Of the plank, and the m
hole masscd weight Of congregation or vi
.holars. with a sporadic deacon or com se
ittee man thrown in, on the other, and IA
ION expect them, either one, 10 raise the on
yful song. Here we go upl up upl and 60
are we go down! down. down. is some ca
ling Of the inefablc msanness Of which wi
, goodhearted children, only grown.up va