The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-10-02

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orally call spade spade, and done
with it. My preachin' is apt 70 be rather
personal, SO to speak, and perhaps II
will be this time. Squire Boomer says
1t costs great deal OF money to run
church, and he's right. And it costs q
great deal to run farm Of much size,
and grist mill and high school and
"a steam tisrasher and agood many things
that we've got to have. Why, twas only
last summer | was ridin' long with
Squire Boomer past his farm, and he
stopped his horse to show me the. crop
on that twenty-acre lot near che road.
He said he had laid out more than FIVE
dollars an acre in ditchin' that lot and
buyin' fertilizers and seed; said he
shouldn't get his money back in one
year or two but there was q good deal.
OF satisfaction in SEEM how that land
had come up under good tillage.=He
said he didn't believe in any penny
wise system Of farmin'. Fact is, says
he If you starve your farm, it will
starve you.' He says to-day we should
manage our church affairs just as we do
our own; that is, on business principles.
church and the minister, they'll certain
ly starve us. It's the liberal soul thatll
be made fat-not the. stingy one.
Mr.. Mullins, he deals in general
merchandise, and runs a pretty large
establishment. He says trade has been
uncommon dull for year or more; but
all the same he is going to raise the sal
airy Of his head clerk and book-keeper
fifty dollars this year, just because he
was such faithful fellow and looked
| after his employers interests so we'll.
4 tell you, Ball. says he, "a man must
| show his hands that he. appreciates
/ their work If he wants EN- to take an
interest and make things buzz. But
when it comes to the minister, he pro-
poses to work this plan by the rule OF
| contrary. ALL that s necessary to make
the finances of this church prosper,
seemingly, is to Let the minister know
| that his 1abors are worth less by two
| hundred dollars year than when he
came here.
! 'Neighbor Snodgrass is fond of sayin'
we must cut our garment accordin' to
our cloth, but he don't always practice
/
house last evenin' to set awhile, as /
often do, and Mis-, Snodgrass was cut
tin out @cheekered shirt for her hus-
band. She bad the cloth spread out on
the floor, and laid the pattern on this
way and that way; but finally she said:
It's no use;e there isn't cloth enough,
John; you'll have to get three-quarters
| of yard more to make the sleeves
| Now, by his own rule, he should have
said: You must cut that garment ac-
cordin' to the cloth, sleeves or no
sleeves But he didn't say any such
thing. i, He just said: All right, Luz
cinda; I'll get the cloth tomorrow when
GO to the village, and there's the
bundle stickin' out of his coat pocket
this minute.
HE and are in the habit OF helpin'
each other with big job now and then,
in neighbor1y way. Last spring I
helped him build a picket fence the
whole length of his farm on the high
way. He laid out to have lumber
enough on handabefore we begun, but
he fell short considerable; said he didn't
make allowance enough for shaky pick
cts, just as we don't for shaky slip
rents.-Now, you'd think, to be consis-
tent, he ought to have spread them
pickets trifie more, or else finished up
the two or three rods lacking with some
| OF them old fence rails. But he didn't
do any such thing. He sent his team. off
to the mill and had another load Of
pickets on hand before we needed 'em;
and he had hundred or two left over
| for repairs, surplus in the treasury,
SO to speak.
eve hear good deal about cuttln'
down our expenses, but not word
about increasin' our income. Gentlemen
talk as If, in church matters, we better
wear shirt without sleeves, as it were,
than to buy a little more cloth; we bet
ter piece out new fence with old rails,
rather than to get a few more pickets.
The Bible tells about a time when the
bed is shorter than man can stretch
himself on 1t, and the GOVERN narrower
than that he can wrap himself in It'll
Seems to me some of us have about got
there.
at has been more than limited here
to-day that the minister has more
money to spend than we do, and may bo
he does But that is none of our Bust
ness We called him here and fixed the
amount of his salary ourselves; and
tn.nk it would be mighty mean pro-
cecdin' to ask him to throw off $500, just
because we've failed to do business on
business principles-to lay this load all
on his shoulders, when not man of us
had tried to lift it with one OF our little
fingers so to speak.
Now say that this ~paltry debt OF a
few hundred dollars, that Is such bug
bear to many, has come, not because
our expenses So large, but because
our income is so SMALL not because we
paw out too much money, but benause
we pay in too little; and if every moth
er's. son of us will increase our slip REM
twenty per cent, we shan't be likely to
hear any more such whinin' as we've
heard to-day
'sDo you offer that as an amendment
to the motion to appoint committeeT
asked the chairman briskly.
F. .sNo,, Numbered Mr.. Ball from his
seat in the corner. "Do you think l't
hitch an amendment on to such a mo
ton as that? Not while I have my
senses" i
After some confusion, the motion was
laid upon the table, and the subject
from Mr.. Balls point of view, was un
dor discussion, with a fair prospect OF
$, ccessful issue, when this writer left
:. Interior.
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