The National tribune., 1882-04-15
FUNNY SCENES IN CHURCHES.

At one of the leading Protestant churches
IN Baltimore, Sunday morning last the pas
tor, after an able sermon, made strong ap-
/ peal for a liberal subscription with which to
/ HquIdate church debt which had been an
! noylng his Tepose, as he is 4 minister who
believes in paying as you 60" The first
collection did not foot up as satisfactorily as
| was desired, and a second call was made, but
still the desired amount was not forthcOm-
ing, and as last expedient the pastor had
a basket provided with cards and pencils,
passed from pew to pew by an energetic
son and brother with the understanding
| that any one willing could aflix name and
amount of subscription, to be called for at
an early day. 4 card was handed, among
Others, to stranger Of philanthropic appear
ance, who wrote something on it, placed it
III the basket, and then quietly left the
house of worship. Imagine the pastors sur
prise, IN counting up his gains from the
cards, to read on one of them, written in a
Ieglble hand, the words: "The pastor of this
church is crank" He informed the mem
bershlp that he had been the pastor of the
church for many years, and that this was
the first time he had been written down
crank" and, Of course, this would not
have been the case this time had they prop
erly discharged their duty at the first call
1t Is not expected the stranger viii occupy
a seat in that church for several Sundays to
come. doctor of divinity, who is pastor Of
a Methodist congregation in the regions
about Madison Square, in this city, on Sun
day read from his pulpit printed official
circular OF railway company announcing a
change IN passenger agents, the paper having
been handed him in mistake for one more
reIlglous IN It's character. A male member
OF the congregation, who is railroad man,
and is also connected with the Northern
Central Railway branch of the Young Mems
Christian Association, desired to have the
pastor read circular announcing Il special
religious service to he held by the branch.
AS the pastor walked into his church the
railroad man handed him what was sup
posed to be the religious notice, falling to
that he had the official railway
notice of change in the same pocket. The |
pastor, with confidence in his lay member |
accepted the notice on faith, and did not
read it until he announced it with the other
usual notices TO the congregation. The rail-
road man was overwhelmed with consterna-
tion when he heard his pastor impressively |
read from the pulpit the announcement that |
- ID. W. JanowitZ, late southeastern passen- |
ger agent of the Pennsylva ania Railroad, at |
Washington, has been appointed eastern pas
senger and freight agent of the Missouri |
Pacific and st. Louis and Iron Mountain |
with headquarters at New York" |
&c. The pastor read it through, even to the |
minute details, expecting, as he afterwards |
said, to find some religious reference at the |
bottom. He, however, reached the name of |
the managing railroad official signed to the |
circular without discovering anything per- |
tanning to devotional affairs, and he then
quickly turned over to another notice. which |
ne knew was orthodox. The railroad man
meanwhile had fled to the basement, posi-
lively overcome by the incident which his
Unfortunate mistake had occasioned. The I
Northern Central officials claim to have dis
overed another avenue for railroad adyer-
Sun.