The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1888-01-15
4 PURITAN COUNTRY CHURCH.
Sissor Sudden. the Rev. Mr.. HaIlelujah, and
the Rev. Mr.. Manpragora.
From the Congre0att0nultst

From the ConJre0attOnaltt
We have always noticed that Sister Sudden
is a Groat favorite for a little, while with new
face. with dark hair and kindling eyes. and an
tmpetuous nature and manner, and she always
goes In for all the new things: although she
doesn't always stay in n great while. Our city
missionary every now and then comes into the
church meeting with u piteous, tale q want or
and often asks for one or more volunteers for
sid In pushing on his difficult, and not uniform
unteers. but S alter a Week Week or S rtWe Of 4t toil so nH,.
w he or She will Be sick. or have .Ss to go % out oUn Of
one way or another. with Infinite reluctance. It
becomes needful for her to surrender her task
Our new pastors habitually like Sister Sud-
den. We speak Of those beloved and honored
mon In the plural number, but we do not
distinctly understood that we are a church
Of a settled ministry, as compared with the
unscrlptural and unreasonable itineracy OF
s %an Il q has su eu sya q Sspb 6sstare That Yet dtI n some me
to invite and entertain seven ordaining coun-
odist Church on the other side Of the Common,
IL the same period has had but i've preachers.
Il 1e' cannot .asa Ct T Ss den MES a tS ysaF a 1GnT srer to sta y
two years instead Of three is not a brilliant
Illustration Is9s 9i that "permenent ministry" On
time in an eSeeptionai !! state. The Re Rev so Mr.
elegant oratory might have built us up
S S9sas q su 9nay sh Sea sfaeI st t dhs h ssspn nsx se doo ws es
heard sr his ieryyid ' voiee IN WHAT WAT seemed Sea%sT q amiI.
sermons which happened to be lying on the
table, followed him through one OF. the same
s isal 0 ny te to t Hish tn ssrF sSne ahs G6@ 81 sonrse Of We 9
DFTSRsshlns stolen sermons; ana that ended him:
one Of, our most pominent city divines. and ap-
peared well. though rather q pale and CHASTITY
OF his room In his boarding house an enormous
chunk Of opium with peculiarly irregular teeth
gloas!y f Ris: and IL Sls sf1 sfswe Hh ssr !sssh s wsas i SS:
lowed. But, as we were on the subject Of Sister
Sudden, we will not 70 further In this bio.
Sister sudden was always; the frst to apprecia'e
In his turn the peculiar excellence Of each new
stayed longest, confessed that, in his case. her
i saalS bs,M.. reception ahd Wv was vs., what i, Turned the
salary than we were. 1t ought. in fairness to
Sister Sudden, Be invariably the first Il L. % Wei
s sIsa n shs e9Sm ssn bs %iniStsrl%l ,G guest Ynasd she has bRs
parting one. She II Was Who ecoosnizsedd The
tell tale teeth marks OF Mr.. Mandrngora, and
who felt ~ once that his usefulness was at I'm
end-and made no secret OF that feeling.
Sister Sudden has not been happy In her-so
to speak domestic relations. Congreve's
couplet:
Thus grief still treads upon the heels Of pleasure;
Married In haste, We may repent at leisure;
fails In exactness OF application to her case,
mainly. because she remain single still; but
she Is known to have been engaged a good
many times-with no results that amounted
TO much. The trouble probably has been that
those contracts. as juliet said to Romeo. were
too rash, too unadvised, too sudden.
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be.
Ere one can say-It ~lightena
Sister Suddsn is great at O p~icnic-fancy q
whole nation. like the French people. spelling
that word. g,gne-liiQne: no wonder they have
trouble with their Presidents-or a lGir. or a
Sunday school excursion, or a sociable, or u
candy scrnpe. or any of those delightful secu-
come down from their habitual altitude of god
liness toward the level Of the world, as the lit
tie steamer on u Swiss lake lillips round in the
most extraordinary and zigzag manner among
the towns on the banks to take In passengers.
She-that Is, Sister Students full Of energy
and usefulness on such occasions; ready to do
las style has proved pro ssdu Itself ilfpg admirable abe a aed
effective, In charge OF a weighing machine,
Mrs. Jarley's wax works. or an Aunt Sally.o
We have the Apostle Paul for it-and he was
speaking OF the Church-that those members
which seem to be more feeble are necessary"
and any wise man will say thar our Sudden
churches, The hard-coal fire whose glowing
urgency raises the steam TO drive the massive
engines, which do our great works, has to be
started BY o blaze Of kindlings. And the kind
Llhgs have to be brought to q flame By the pre-
nminsry combustion OF . Wisp Of straw or Q