Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-08-17
As Others See Us.

This" said the returned mission
ary TO the Poor Heather whom he
had very recently brought over, lis n
church"
And the Poor Heather greatly ad-
mired the church. By-and-by he
asked;
"Who is the fat man with the big
watch-seal. who looks at the church
as though he thought some of putting
on $50 bay-window and raising the
rent $500 year?"
That is trustee" said the re-
turned missionary.
He does most of the praying. |
supposey" remarked the Poor Hea-
then, who, in his blindness, knows
very little about the way how we do
these things.
NO" said the returned missionary,
"he doesn't believe in praying; he is
a Bob Ingersoll man, and he believes
that nobody doesn't know nothing,
and that they know that he knows
they don't. He is not member OF
the church. but he is a good, clear
headed business man. good manager,
strong on real estate deals, and so
hes trustee. Doesn't take very
much of Christian TO be a trustee,
except in the country. In town II
church only wants a good business
man for trustee.
And who is the man who stands in
the door and glares at the people as
they pass in the church and tries to
keep them outT' asked the. Poor Hea-
then.
That is the sexton replied the
missionary. He doesn't believe in
opening the church for religious SER
vices at all He says the church was
built TO have swell weddings in, and
that for preaching and the prayer
meetings, and other side-shows Of that
nature, the trustees should hire IA
hall"
WHO is the very young man who
pushes people out Of the way that he
may have room TO pass in, and stoops
very low as he enters the twenty-foot
door, and sits directly under the
steeple lest he should strike his head
when he stands upr'
That, said the returned mission
airy, lis the new superintendent Of the
Sunday They are all that way
at first By-and-by, when he has for
gotten every line OF his beautiful
speech when there are distinguished
strangers present, when he has start
ed the wrong tune To an entirely
strange hymn. and corrected himself
by striking the right tune on IA key 80
high that the Chimes OF Normandy
couldn't ring IA second bass TO IL when
he has flunked fair, square and out
right on the first ten questions In his
question-box, he will know less by n
ton than he does now, and be "A good,
useful, earnest and humble superin-
tendent He's only young and new,
like an August persimmon.
Here comes the owner Of the
church, the Poor Heather said. "He
looks hs though he had decided To
make pemmican Of the sexton and
trustee, and not hold any service to-
day"
mo, that is not exactly the owner
Of the church, - the returned mission
airy said f; that IL the leader Of the
choir
who is that meek, timid little man
who il trying TO creep In without the
sexton seeing him, and who bas just
taken of his hat TO the leader Of the
choir2'
"Oh, that is only the pastor Of the
church." replied the missionary.
"Will you go insidef''
And the Poor Heather said he
would, because he rather guessed.
from their looks, the sexton and the
leader Of the choir had made up their
minds to settle that morning which
Of the two should take the church
and run it, BWdette.