New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-24
FROM THE NAIL.
THE GRAMMAR SYMPOSIUM
AND CLERICAL VACATIONS.
Tothe Editor ofThe Tribune.

the Editor The Tribune.
Sir The wisdom Of the rural clergy being now quite
universally conceded. desire to offer few remarks;
and, first, aHent your grammar symposium:
\ very distinguished writer in letter published
last week speaking Of the Catslls says: " l never
this region look more supcrbly" Is not superb
the correct word
Again. am aware of the rule which, in tho poten-
tiel mood, puts plural verb with singular noun or
rronom-.If werc,' If it were Must this needs
be thus | notice that me and Macaulay and Froude
frequently say II it vas and should Ike to know
such writer's Us can be wrong
Again, have VIC any call to write ugh IN
though and although than our ancestors hlh TO
write "ltto7 for tn
Again, would not an Intelligent public thrive quite
well II there was a pretty general dropping OF
double letters in such words as dropping permit
ting travelling and 50 FORTH
second ancnt the vacation question:
Is the sensitive clerical mind usually feels niue
uncomfortable under the sarcastic filings OF lay writers
on this sutherland as IL Is always pr0h&Dle Ior
The pulpit 10 have the opinion OF the pews-l would
suggest that lay friends, In calm judicial spirit
take the Goor the pen, and tell US what they really
tink would be about. right. II vacatonS are
wrong we should know It, If right, then
TO Just what extent would be the correct thng
The Rev. \. X. II. Boyd, in his Recreatlons Oh Il
Country parson,n says one sermon III one "cCh
is easy but hundred sermons In hundred weeks
is Mixing. And. a We have to prrpare Two seFnP he
"A x, IL would seem That the hlliiS HiuSV w.
by lust 20 mach. the more effective. I'D. -
Nj. George W. Curtis once said t. me that u t'Cn
him three mouths to prepare lecture ana nov
"a clergyman could prepare TWO sermons weeh 40
10 deliver before an audience, he couldn't nhGcfs anu
And tho question COmc,: Is, or II not ComI"Sltloh
Of this prolonged character, the most exhaustive o.
all labor TO brain and nerve-i0 say
nothing Of its effect, in us direction
up. Don't snarl or growl any more 1isl l plcasdn,t
>1mc let up is necessary. About how much would
suit You ,,, l.. ~. imam
Btt what | desire more particularly to say upon
this point f. that il il the country pastor, anu no.
IN. irat city clergyman, who especially nccGs tie
REGULAR yearly vacation ON the prhcpe thl II
much easier for Maud :. to DO rapid ana extensive
work than for a pOuch-hor'c. ThcTs Is a popular
impression Of which we think should nave lhc
benefit that the Intellect of the city clergy i q most
colossal affair compared - the rural an lclc. Nu
IN This A. IN literature the public * the true critic
II follows that the city pastor like Maud ;, sn.uu
b. anla TO do his with such cclcfly a. HOI "
cau.c the wcarncs, resulting from the luIu9clne
cioit, Of hi bucolc brother: and that rs VIII he
manifest TO all unbiased minds, n * tlc coun,r!
minister who needs the extended yearly vacation,
while his eminent city brother should be c3nent WIN
one on each alternate year! C(lNlhl IN'lVh'
Washington. y. j.. july 81, $500