St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
The Advice Based Upon Many
Examples to tn 9 Con-
trary.
Bad Luck Follows Most
Preachers Who Lay Down
Their Calling.
Stephen H. Tying Jr., w. H. H.
Murray, Min and Nc
Glynn Examples.
Cincinnati Commercial.

1Ipp4O VI llI puUliC ClIClOSs
A doctor can put aside his diploma.
discontinue issuing prescriptions. with
draw from practice, go into any other
business he pleases, and the world will
not ask any questions about him.
Both the lawyer and the doctor are
liable to succeed in the lines of effort
which they undertake, and may possibly
| pile up fortunes in their new enter
prises. There are thousands of exam
pies in this direction in almost every
circle of business life.
A clergyman invites misfortune the
moment he forsakes the pulpit.
That is strange saying, yet the his
| tory OF almost every case within public
knowledge where preacher has gone
| into other professions after disrobing
himself OF being unfrOcked by his &C.
clesiasticai superiors, proves the truth
| of this statement. 1t hardly makes
any difference, either, what the
causes are which precipitate them
from their pulpits. The result,
in regard to their treatment by
the world and their subsequent fate, Is
| pretty generally the same. There is a
helpleSsness, sort of babeS-in-tbe-
wood aspect about minister who has
been cast down from the altar, or who
has voluntarily stepped out of the pull
pit, that no other created thing wears
That is the curious thing of his affairs.
He may have lost his position
through his own misconduct, he
may have sacrificed it for what he
deemed call of duty; he may
have conscientiously put it aside for
reasons of belief or unbelief-in any
case the outward dilapidation that over
comes him is just the same. On gen.
eral principles man who puts aside
the best ambition of his life. who for
sakes the pathway that leads to success.
to prominence, and to honor in his call
ing, who goes out into the world I'M
tutored in the ways in which he must
struggle for support and place, and who
does all this at what he deems the call
of duty and Of principle, ought TO have
the air and bearing of a hero, for he
sacrifices temporal good to his honest
convictions. But the cold facts are
against this theory and entirely
against it.
Without arguing from generalities,
take deduction from results that have
been every day history within the last
few years.
STEPHEN H. TYING JR.
In the days of his pulpit power few
men in the Atlantic Coast states were
better or more favorably known. he
was a recognized power in religious
and in social life. He was eloquent,
popular and beloved. His following
in the church and outside of it was
notable, influential, wealthy, and re-
spected. Something came up between
him and his vestry, and for little while
the whole city of New York rang with
talk and charges and countercharges,
Innnfinita into official
shape. and apparently in no way re-
flecting on the preachers usefulness,
theological opinions, or moral rectitude.
No one seemed to know exactly what
the real trouble was, but the gen.
erally-received idea was that the young
divine had been dabbling in stocks, and
that, too, at the expense of some of tie
members of his congregation. Well,
anyhow, he dropped suddenly from his
pulpit, and one day it was announced
that he had sailed for Europe. His
friends said he was never again to be
known as preacher, and his enemies adj
mitted that the church had made great
loss. The result? All, yes! Only few
months ago there came an impassioned
appeal for reinstatement in his place at
the altar of the Church of the Holy
Trinity. 1t came from him after his
struggles for prominence, place and
success, and it was like the wall of one
who had been utterly cast out-of one
who saw nothing left in life unless he
could be restored to his Bible and his
old pulpit-and he is still knocking at
Holy Trinity's door.
W. q. II. MURRAY.
Adirondack Murray, as the world aft
erwards learned to call him, of Park
church. Boston. A languid-looking.
youngish-appearing man, with a long.
dropping mustache, contemplating at
his feet an audience that packed the
pews and crowded the aisles. The man
sWayed them. held them together
moved them, governed them, and did
it all with an easy air of lazy indiffer-
ence that was one of the preachers no
table traits. He was power in BOs-
ton, in Massachusetts, in New En-
gland. Not such one as Phillips
Brooks or Archbishop Williams or men
of that stamp, but he touched the minds
of men and women in everyday life
and they loved and respected him.
He gave up his pulpit one day. Never
mind what the cause was. In his case,
as in that of other preachers, the motive
for unfrocking himself made no differ
ence in the result. He became rancher
in Texas, fruit farmer in California, a
horse breeder in Dakota, and made half
a dozen other ventures which turned
out unsatisfactory. Then he came
back again to the haunts of men in the
East, and dusty mold seemed to have
crept over his once Jaunty and we'll
kept exterior. The old longing was
upon him, but no pulpit was rolled
toward him, and so he became a lect-
urer. He has made no money worth
mentioning, and his life has been far
from what it might have been had he
remained within the chancel rails of the
Park church in Boston.
A CHICAGO EXAMPLE.
Rev. George G. Milu was the idol of
his congregation and the pride of the
Western newspapers. His church in
fashionable. Cincinnati wanted him,
and so did st. Louis, and they both Of
fered big premiums for him. The
craze that took from him his clerical cut
and coat was one that seldom inyades
the pulpit. He aspired to be an actor,
and Shakespearean one at that, and
SO he left his church surroundings, and
for a brief period trod the boards before
the footlights. Does any one hear of
him now? Once in while, in an
obscure country paper of the far
er finds half-dozen-line item
telling of the show that George G. Min
is with and the play itgave in some hall
lighted with oil lamps and darkened
with smutty and unclean windows. Yet
the sunlight poured through stained
glass windows and giiStened in hun
dred CHEEKY glints around the pulpit of
his church in the great W.stern city
where no more forever shall his voice
be heard.
PERE HYACINTHE.
In the great cathedral of Notre Dame
the wide and unpaved floor was packed
with the rich and the poor, who crowded
to listen to his eloquent words. He
swayed thousands, and might have
swayed the empire. His brown and
white Dominican habit covered man
that was more powerful than princes.
more beloved than heroes. In this case
came the inevitable woman, and Pere
Hyacinthe took Der for his wife, That
ended the dispute between him and
Catholicity. he expected the world