Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1885-07-09
The Ministers of To-Day.


the long faces that people have been
accustomed to seeing on their minis
ters will give place to smiles, and
there will be hearty friendship be-
tween pastor and people instead of
GOODNESS. Ministers that are coming
onto the stage now seem to he endow-
ed with the same propcnsitics as other
healthy men. The colleges where
they get thoir education for the minis
try are not the hide bound affairs they
used to be, and when they turn out
preacher, he can not only preach right
from the shoulder, but he can do lots
of other things that the congregation
does not take into account. Nowadays
when we see n bright young man in
the pulpit, using splendid tactics to
bring the sinner to repentance, we
know that he can also land 4 black
bass as well as tho best of us. When
we see his gestures in the pulpit, rs he
sends theological blow after blow into
the ranks of sinners, we feel that if
worse comes to worse hc would be no
slouch in boxing match, and that he
could knock out n bad man in three
rounds, Marquis of Quccnsbury rules,
| il such man attempted to put any
scallops around him, and we rejoice
that the good man would not be rs
helpless as the Old.iaShioncd ministers
who preached turning the other cheek
also which the new minister does not
| believe in. When the new minister
eXhorts his congregation to flee from
the wrath to come, we know that
if there should be n general flee
ing match, the good man could Outrun
the whole crowd, at thousand yards,
because he has practised fleeing in
many footrace at college 1t is not
exactly right, perhaps, to think of it
| in church, but il is human to pride
| ourselves that tho innocent looking
man who is telling us of the glories OF
the beautiful beyond, can kick foot
ball higher than any deacon that is
listening to his eloquent words. When
he tells the sinner to stop short in his
career, and strike home the new resolu-
ton to turn from the evil of his ways,
one cannot help thinking that as short
stop in base ball nine the minister
has few equals, while he can bat a
ball from a cross-cycd. left handed
pitcher clear over the fence, make
home run, and bring in three men that
are loaling on the bases trying to steal
in. When he tells us of the fishermen
of Gallilce going out in their boats TO
catch fish we feel that he can cast a nv
farther with his i've ounce rod and
nearer where the fish is located, than
the best fishermen Ga!lilce ever turned
out, and that he could take a pair of
oars and pull tho everlasting socks off
of any old-timc boatman that we ever
read about. The minister of the pre-
sont day takes an interest ia manly
sports, and is often seen at the base
ball matches, and if he can't 90 on
Saturday afternoons, on account of
having to wrilo his sermon, he has a
nelghbor drop in on the way back from
the ball match to tell him the result,
and hc lets up on his sermon for few
minutes to listen to n description of
some of the GOOD PLAYING, and resumes
the writing of his sermon rcfrc she'd by
the caller, and the better for the call.
II YOU call upOn him at his study or
his residence of an evening, and want
to talk about religion, he is loaded for
bear, and will givo YOU good advice
enough to make YOU happy Christian
il YOU follow il, but il YOU want to see
his fishing rod and his flies, he will
put his rod together and show YOU
how the tip will bend clear to the butt
and not break, and he will show YOU
the most killing flies and tell you
where he caught the largest trout, and
how much his health was improved
by his vacation last year. He will tell
YOU that a vacation, to him, means
going away to the woods and streams,
to commune with nature, and breathe
the pure air. instead of exchanging
pulpits with some other worn out
brother. preaching old back.number
sermons for crest" to benches made
vacant by tho congregation taking n
! vacation and going to the woods. II
Won casually allude to SHOOTING. in
Connection with fishing, he will null
an old Cun case ont from under tho
, lounge and show Won an old Parker
INN that he has shot ton thousand
| Times. and make tho casual remark
, that il gets there iii, and he will tell
Won of an old bob.tailcd setter doc
That ho has shot over for several soa.
, sons that has rot moro sense and !,
trnor and moro friondlv than NAM
church memhers bn has coma in con,
t,ct with and Won will imogino tba,
, hc has homes that there is n small
, booyon sdmcwhore for GOOD docs
tbot nnver mato mistako s on = noiSi
ond never chase rahhits Tba m;piste,
T of tha nresomt dav with rare oycen
tions Il n thoromghhred who viii ill., 4,
mp nigbts n necsssarv IN steer vor
tdpvar5s p 81 petor,. %aio and vii Giy, ,
Vm vo" all ,ho noin,s int b6 tn, Lnoms @ of % a6or,
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s;ncoraty o hono nom viii mote tho r;,,io
bnt oftor ho hoPv has sV dono his % dntv I Inv % vo,
and nil men he is not poinS aroma
groanlng anu signing, ana eryng iol
rear you VIII noe CATCH on' Dut on the
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