The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05
A Common Want.

eel questions, and don't know why /
sshouldn't," writes Aunt Bptspy AL
len to IHe Christian Union. "You
must know lots of ministers. and we
want you to help us find one. Our
minister has just gone, ana we dou't
propose to 90 candidatin' till every
D0oy wants different man. Oar
sioiEs amt very hard to suit, and
sthlpk we ought to get sonebody
3flght away. Wewa a young man
carson Goodrich wasn't very old, but
We all got kinder tired of him. It
was the same old story all the white
--sln, repentance and faith; we want
somethin' different. somethin' new.
We want real stirrn' sermons that'n
warm you right up every Sunday To-
.3s1Is>>luteA as get kinder cold. Bnt
we don't want a man who is alters
preachin' to Us as if we was sinners.
Our congregation is all good, respec
table folks, and dou't need that kind
of talk. We don't want too Y .ung a
man.. one jest out Of the seminary.
and fpl Of this neW-f1ng!ed theology
for some Of our old folks arc mighty
stiff Oh the doctrines. Old Squire
Hardman never got oyer it because
Pdrson Goodrich sed onct that he
hoped more would be saved than was
lost.
"Our young folks hes bin Wandprin'
off to the church down to the lower
village. They re alters heviu' neck
tie sociables and chicEen-pie suppers
and missionary mbloose and that
makes religion iuterestiu' to young
people, you know. Parson Goodrich
didn't believe in them things much
-leastWise he never helped 'em
along any. Now, eff we could only
git young man who would stir
round lively, and keep somethin' Of
that kind gOin' all the while, it
would build us up, don't you see q?
Our Sunday school is kinder run
down too, and our minister jest wants
to tackle that; and the prayer meet
in's are purity thin. But we want a
man who won't git all beat out and
discouraged. Parson Goodrich used
to look down so in the mouth some
times in prayer meetin's, when the
brethren didn't ockerpy the time
much, that folks got kinder out of
patience with him.
:" rwon't do for the minister mott
be married; for, sence our young men
got to goin' off to the city so, there's
lots of girls left. and 'twould be sure
to make hard feelin'S if he married
one and didn't the others, and they
neyer'd forgive him ef he went out
of the parish for wife. Besides, our
Sewing Society and our female pray
er meetin' hain't done much lately
and we want minister's wife to
start 'em. up ag'in. Mis- Goodrich
WANT what you WOuld call "A real
driYin' woman; she was alters kinder
sickly. Some folks sed twas the
house they lived in; but, law! them
edicated folks are alters talkin' about
drains and sich, The houce did stan
in hOller. and the graveyard was
on a side hill jest above the well, but,
merciful man every body can't think
Jest where they'll hev their wells.
That was the only house in the viii
lage where the minister could live,
and they alters had lived there. She
had spell Of typhoid fever one WIN
ter, and her little boy died of diph
liberia that spring, and she never
chirked up afterwards, But, bcin' a
minister's wife so, seems to me ef she
he'd ought to be cheerful end resign
ed ter Providence. She alters KEEP a
girl for as much as three months
every time she he'd a baby land she
he'd five in the ten years they lived
there, J and alters put out her wash
in, so she didn't hev very hard
time. But she never did much in the
parish, so we hope the next minis
ier's wife will be one of the go-ahead
kind,