Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-17
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'sThis. " said the returned missiona1
ry to the Pobr Heather whom be had
brought oveit. sis church,
And tho Poor Heather greatly ad.
mired the church, BY and by he ask.
ed:
s'Who il the fat man with the bic
watch sesll, who looks at the church
as though he thought some of putting
on fifty-dollar bay window and rails.
ing the rent $500 a year.
"That is a trustee said the re-
turned missionary
"He does most OF the praying / sup.
poser" said the Poor Heather, who,
in his blindness, knows very little
about the way we do these things.
"No," said the returned missionary,
che doesn't believe in praying; he is a
Bob Ingersoll man and believes that
nobody doesn't know nothing and
that they know he knows they
don't. He is not member of the
Church. but he is a good. clearheaded
business man, good manager, strong
on real estate deals, and SO he's a
trustee. Doesn't take much OF Chris
tan to be a trustee, except in the
country. In town a church only
wants good business man for trus-
the"
"And who is the man who stands In
the door and glares at the people as
they pass in and tries to keep them
out?" asked the Poor Heather.
THAT is the sexton" replied the
missionary. "He doesn't believe in
opening the church for religious ser.
vice at all. He says the church was
built to have swell weddings in, and
that for preaching and prayer meet
ings and other side shows OF that
nature the trustee should hire a hall. I"
"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 loot
door and sits directly under the
steeple lest he should strike his head
when he stands up2"
THAT" said the returned mission
airy, SIS the new superintendent oil the
Sunday school. They are all that
way at first. By and by, when ne
has forgotten every line of his beauti-
ful speech, when there are distinguish
ed strangers present, when he has
started the wrong tune to an entirely
strange hymn, and corrected himself
by striking the right tune on a key so
high that the Chimes of Normandy
couldn't ring a second bass to it;
when he has thanked, fair square and
outright, on the first ten ques-
tons in his question box, he will
know less by ton then he does
now, and be a good, useful, earnest,
and humble superintendent. He's
only young and new, like an August
persimmon."
Here comes the owner of the
church," the Poor Heather said. ''He
looks as t.Ua n he had decided to
make pemmican OF the sexton and
trustee, and not hold my service to-
day."
mo, that is not exactly the owner
of the church." the returned mission
airy said; "that rs the leader of the
choir"
"Who is that meek, timid little man
who is trying to creep in without let.
ting the sexton see HIM, and VINO has
Just taken off his hat TO the leader Of
the choir?"
ooh, that is only the pastor of the
church" the returned missionary re-
piled. "W' you go inside2"
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
would take the church and run it
Burdette.