New-York tribune., 1886-04-04
CHURCHTdOUGHT AND TALK
THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK AT HOME AND
ABROAD.

Dr. w. A. Hammond has been writing very
interesting article for The HOmiietic Reriew in which he
gives the why clergymen are not as class In
enjoyment Of good health The three reasons which
gives that cergymen .rw0rked. mentally;
that they underied and that they do not take suf
cient mental aud bodily recreation retired clergy
man Of this city, who has read the article OF it,
like IL very much but | should take exception TO
the first This tax about the clergy as class
being overworked all bosh OF they have to
a good deal OF hard work; aud great many OF them
have 10 work great deal harder than is rlght. But
taken a whole the clergy have much easier time
than in any other calling They can arrange their
work to suit themselves, and within certain vague
limits their time is absolutely their own. They can get
longer than any man in business or profes-
sona life; and by arranging say four exchanges III the
OF the year, they can practically add month 10
their vacation Their salaries are generally small IL 10
true bu they usually have enough FOR their needs. and
they know nothing OF the anxiety and responsibility
that are common to all business men. The
trouble with gr-at nADy clersyinen Is tnat lney are
cOddled and pted by tho women folks every tlme they
do little bit OF genuine hard Work ah 30 at iai tHey
really they the hardest wOrke people III the
world But let them take the place Of some busy mer-
chant railroad newspaper editor Tor Just one
week and they would ever again talk OF the hard WORK
OF the ministry"
Whatever may be said ON this point. Dr. Hammond Is
certainly right when he says that many OF the clergy
uDderfed and do not get enough reGreAtion They
probably 1at enough, such it s he thinks but partly
from principle, partly from necessity they MI them
selves up with watcry vegetables and sloppy brain
foods instead Of nutritivc beef mutton chicken aud
turkey. Then "in the country. or in the towns
of small SIZE" says Dr. Hamilton the mental life OF
clergyman restricted In It's scope. though drawn out
enough within the confined limits within which it acts
AS he rarely. II ever. gets hour during
which his mind is engaged with something OF anus
ing if light and tring character, potent 20 divert
bim from the serious affairs OF life, and hence the
strongest brain that could be given. His parish
far thr tnea,
band OF MINISTRIES, and they get part at
least OF the diversion and recreation they require but
the clergy man, actuaed by what believe is mistaken
view OF his duty TO himself as well as 10 others. remains
at homenot By any cheerful "a ii ought to be
or has prayerDeoting or some other religious ser
am sure thar the all powerful and all knowing. being
who placed here is more hOnored by our taking
Of our minds than by our Offering him prayers and un-
one word more. The healthie.t cergymen IN this
country the Roman Cat hoc and the reason is that
although they hard they lve WELL generously III
fact, and know how to reereats the mind and body"
The people of Burmah are all things very religious
number OF The bombay Gazette thus describes
OF the results OF that religious feeling:
Every hilltop every plan. every of trees.
every garden has its graceful building IN white gold
giving evidence OF the pety and OF the layishness OF
their iunumerabe founders The amount OF money thus
avished year by and month by month, past the
counting Of all the clerks in the bank OF England The
roads. the palaces the Notifications, the aqueducts.
that might have been built with all this brick and NOR
tar to nothing OF the stucco or tue god leaf some
times inch thick chance fire burned down the
great pagoda and the gold melted from its immense
surface is SAID to have been worth sixty-vc lakhs 1t
replaced by Theeba W. and more gold added. This
waste O the national resources, pcrscvered
through generations, may for the manifest
poverty OF the population which lives for the part
In habations OF wicker WORK eked out with mating
There Is no accumulation OF property; every family
lives an ephenefa lfe those that after Will live
the same"
Some wellmeaning correspondent who has been scam
ddzed by the trenchant prayers OF the uuse Chaplain
writes TO Ihe Phtiadephia Times suggesting that the
sessions OF Congress be opened by for Con
gress in the Episcopal Prayer Book He ought know
tAat such course would probably raise fierce sccesi
asiical tempest Eloquent leaders would he written
the nsdiOus advance OF Episcopicy meetings would he
held in fcrvid orators would ask shall allow
preatca church To forge upon the calling chains of
RELIGIOUS servitudsi" The whole meeting would
great good people would be made Thoroughly
happy.
and has the nert OF br-vity, ont IL would lie
open 20 the imputation OF being secaran ana SO the
House OF Representatives. Will nave to along best
1t can with the efforts of it, pcScat chaplain Bui, as
Of the members SAID the other day. they can console
themselves with the reflection that he Is giving lhcm the
most eloquent prayers ever addressed to the members
of any Congress.
The general public has rather lost sight OF tbs Epsco-
pal mission" revivals. but te denoniaatOGal papers
report that they fairy success u where they are
held EpscOpalians do not appear to be entirely a,
ease In revival efforts OF this kind, and IN The smaller
towns especially the Old dyedn the-wool church people
are quite apt 10 look with suspicion methods Of evan
Gelslic work that have bern ~ the secis" Ii Is
not at all unlikely. however that some measure Will DO
brought DeioTe the mex general convention, look
Ing TO the recognition OF q" ssious"
of the regular agencies OF church work.
In the opinion OF Tie Ch.uch Pros what the Episco-
pal Church neeGs most is appellate II quotes
the words OF prominent ergynAn OF that church
follows: DO all you can for Court oi Appeal Proyi
deDce doing everything possible In permitting our
present system % 10 smell so ranEy that shall be
obliged either 10 cast II cut or pull down the
house and build another. The pressure must bs
brought upou the aityhcy have hitherto been afraid
and upon The Bishops Who have also been AFRAID 10
move IL the matter Bat now they must move Let the
PRAYER Book lie sAsy. IL soak Ia the revision tuD
prontaby, bat provision for appe.s ruon every ae
count the burning question: and rot stteH~.a " ihe
conhagratiou will be extensive"