The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-07-02
BURDETTE A PREACHER
How 1t Happened tho HumorI., 49,
Licensed by tho Baptistx


Licensed by tho Baptists.
On reaching Bob Burdette's pretty home
near Bryn Mawr the other evening. a Press
reporter gave the well known humorist the
lrSt intimation that he had been elevated
by his BAPTIST brethren to the dignity of
.ne ministry at their convention near Bus.
tle!on.
Ibid they" said Mr.. Burdette, musing-
iy; did they do that? Well. you see I am
not exactly an ordained minister. It's onIv
sort OF an honor, you know, a recognition
OF those who have the gift of continuance
or rather, those who know how tn taIlr
I've been deacon for about year I'm the
Iower Merriam church. What do L do? oh,
deacon does lots of things; passes the
hat and looks after the coal. looked aft
er the coal''
and you looked after the coal so caro-
Iuily that now you're advanced to the
ministry?" '"o
well, yes; but you should not Joke
win me. did once preach in Baptist
church. 1t was about three years ago. /
think, and 1t was up in the North Creet
region of the Adirondacks, at the second
Johnsbury church. l was up there for the
summer, and the church deacons came to
me ana asked me to preach, as they were
without pastor.
Il told them 1 wasn't good enough to
preach but they wouldn't take no for an
answer. GIL
preached all summer, and had all III,
experience of preacher, from pastoral
visit to donation party.
II didn't want the donation party. h mr.
they gave 1t to me gratis.
wouldn't take a salary. So they said.
wen, we'll give you donation party,
but al took away of the donation party.
wnicn was good-sized party, wasa round
dollar as a memento of the first money I
earned as preacher.
AS am licensed now, / suppose | will
preach occasionally, but l am not a repu-
lar minis tor
Mr.. Burdette will not lecture much this
year and after Christmas expects TO take
iong res and engage only in literary
work at his desk. The Loyar M.rt;ay,
church is very ancient Baptist church
4, mas recently been remodeled, and Mr..
Chllds has given the church a fine window
TO the memory OF Charles Thomson. tho
secretary of the first congress and a mem
per OF the church. The pastor is Rev. ID.
MacMakin. Robert J. Burdette. known
10 most people as the humorlst. is known
among the Baptists as a member of
great Baptist family. One of his brothers
Is minister in India.
one OF Bob's earliest preceptors and
friends before he became known as The
burlington Hawkeye man was Rev. DR..
weston OF the Crozier theological semina-
ry. He takes his recent honors very
meekiy, apparently indifferent to the
pIooaoillty that his former friends NAV
mildly inquire whether or not saul e.
among the prophets.
Inc finding of brother Burdette's house
Is not unattended with difficulties, as DARK
roads deceptive paths and obtrusive tree |
trunks waylay the unwary. SO diricnlt |
Is the labyrinth that reaches to his door. |
mat ever since his brother. whom he had |
a ,,-H.
not see for many more, spent half the |
night In vain hunting for him. Brother
Duroeite thinks seriously of printing a
diagram OF the road ON the back of his
visiting cards for the protection of the |
occasional caller. -Philadelphia Press