Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-12
removal of the remains, together with
those of the father, mother and three
brothers and sisters All but Cyrus are
buried in the yard of the homestead here.
FOUR CHURCH ITEMS.
Roast ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Preachers
Colored Baptist Financial Methods
ATariffon Foreign Ministers.


ATariffon Foreign Ministers.
II must have been unpleasant for those
Washington ministers when the brother
from Fiji Islands came into their meeting
and told them how in his early life he
had been cannibal and had actually
eaten roast missionary But he was an
elderly brother of short stature and some
what dried up, and besides that he was
happy to tell them that, having become
Christian, he had given up his old ways
and had lost his fondness for human
meat.
The Presbyterian would be glad to put
high tariff on ministers from abroad,
more especially from Turkey and Greece.
After saying that "the experience of the
last few years does not encourage the i'm
portation of Asiatics," 1t continues: '1f
it be possible, let the church stop her de-
votion to and batteries of all untried
foreigners, especially in her pulpits, and
know that God will give her out of her
own loins whatever Of service she needs
This is the promise and heaven and earth
shall pass away before one jot or title
thereof shall fail" The experience
which the Presbyterian Church has had
with ex-Brethren Mangasarian and Mes
saras is bitter, indeed. The most hope
fully converted and most gifted Armen-
ian, Arabian, Egyptian or New Zealander
could not now have show as a candidate
if every Presbyterian pulpit in Philadel-
phi were vacant and the whole supply of
native American preachers cut off.
Some Of the colored Baptist Brethren
of North Carolina seem to have adopted
a financial method which is little "off
color" They met in association at States.
vile, where one of the exercises was the
taking Of a collection. The money col
lected was designed for the treasury of
the association. But according to The
Light House, which is the organ of these
Brethren, several of the pastors put their
heads and their hands together and made
dividend of the contents of the baskets,
each putting in his own pocket what was
considered his proper share. Their ex-
cuse for doing this was that they had
done the same thing before. What makes
this transaction especially aggravating Is
the fact that several exceedingly needy
churches were applying for financial aid
and this money was what they should
have had. The preachers who got 1t say
that they need it quite as badly as th,
churches do and that the trouble is tina
the collection did not yield enough
money to go around.
t A writer in the New York Tribune say
) that clergymen are physically the lazies
people in the world and that many o
them are so frequently invited to eat BIZ
r dinners and accept the invitations tha
they become early victims of dyspepsia
Whether clergymen are more or less fon
of work than other people is very har
to prove or disprove. But as TO the bi.
dinners the average clergyman does no
get enough of them to put his digestive
apparatus out of order. When clergy
men have the dyspepsia 1t is more gener
ally from living on tough meat and othel
lowpriced things for economy's SAKE
than from an excess Of sumptuous fare
Or sometimes it is from the mental strair
involved in the effort to bring up a fam
lily on half salary, irregularly paid
Once in long while minister may bt
found whose health has suffered from too
much big dinner. Such cases are ex
ceptional. Most clergymen, just lik'
other people, are fond Of getting as good
dinners as are to be had, and to the bes
of their belief there is no law against 1t
either of Church or State