The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-05-04
e1SUNDAY TH0UGHTSDo
AOfI&
MORALSE MANNERS
BY A CLERGYMAN.

of ministerial delinquencies was under
discussion. The divines confessed to one
another many sins OF omission and com
mission The truth should seem to be
that the clerical function is divided into two
branches, each engrossing, and mutually
exclusive and appugnant, viz: The preach
ing and the pastoral The good preacher
is seldom good pastor. The good pastor
is seldom q good preacher. The man who
Is both is an anomaiy-is worth his weight
in gold.
The qualifications needed in the one
sphere and in the other are absolutely
different. The preacher should flash; the
pastor should plod. The first requires re-
Election, the second intercourse. The one
drinks inspiration, the other drinks tea
The pulpit lie the throne of the preacher,
the freside is the throne of the pas tor.
Most of the ministerial delinquencies
complained of arise from the effort TO
unite in one person these dissimilar quail
ifications. The born preacher almost in
evitabIy neglects his parish. fails to re-
wise his membership list abhors routine
duties and has no talent for administra-
ton. The born pastor is fond OF execu-
tive work, organizes the parish into a
buzzing beehive of activities, knows the
name and residence of every member of
the congregation, never forgets TO chuck
everybody under the chin, asks after the
whole family by name when he meets a
member of IL, Is an indefatigable caller,
the most delightful and instructive of
conversationaists-Rn In the pulpit is as
dry as sawdust. The preacher ought
never to come out of the pulpit; the
pastor ought never to go into il. BY and
BY, when the church is wiser, II will sep
arate these callings and have two minis
ters-one to preach and the other to pa
troll.
One Of the most curious objects in nature
is the bat It's absurdity-a paradox.
Ii is neither a bird nor mouse, but q
strange mixture of both. 1t has wings,
but it cannot fly well. It has feet, but it
cannot walk well. When it tries to fly its
feet are in the wsy. When it attempts to
walk its wings are in the way. Hence its
walk is q waddle and it's flying is an ex-
hibinon in nature of darius Green and
ais flying machine" as described in the
eomic poem.
A worldly Christian is the human bat !;
with inefficient wings he tries to soar
heavenward. with hating feet he at
tempts to walk on earth, and he does
neither decently. His worldliness spoils
his religion, and his religion spoils his
worIdliness He undertakes to live in the
palace with Pharaoh and TO work with
Israel in the brick-yard to keep the doors
of Gods house and TO dwell in the tents
of wickedness; to cry good Lord on sun
day and 10 saw good devil on the other
DAYS of the week. Such a character is the
grief of Christians and the sport of Philis-
tines. Nay, it turns the stomach Of
divine patience itself, and moves
God to say: Il know thy works.
that thou art neither cold or hot. / would
thou vert cold or hot. So then because
thou art lukewarm, and neither cold
nor hot, / will spew thee out of my
mouth" A LaOdicean Christian needs 10
be converted over again.
1t is strictly and philosophically true.
remarks a critic, both in nature and in
reason, that there is no such thing as
chance or accident. if by chance or acct
dent Is meant the absence OF all law. IL
is evident that these words do not signify
anything really existing, anything that Is
really an agent or the cause OF an event.
but indicate merely mems ignorance OF
the actual and immediate cause.
n ucDLuI ChlAcu us huu bhlQs
al can't pay you this week"
"You said the came thing last week"
replied the creditor.
"Well," was the retort, didn't I keep
my word ?"
There is a good deal OF that sort Of COM
mercial honor In the community. II isn't
worth cents on the dollar.
contemnorarv renorta q asrmon On
heaven. Next morning the good man
who preached it was going down town
and met one of his wealthy members. who
stopped the preacher and said Pastor.
you preached a good sermon on heaven.
You told me all about heaven, but you
never told me where heaven is"
"Ah, replied the clergyman, 81 am
glad OF an opportunity this morning
have just come from the hilltop Wonder.
In that cottage there is a member of YOUR
church. She is sick in bed with fever
her two children are sick in another bed.
There isn't a bit Of coal, nor a stick of
wood. nor flour, nor sugar, nor bread in
the house. If you will 90 down town and
buy 8 worth of nice provisions and
send them TO her and then go up to her
and say: My sister, have brought Won
cDulo pIONltADHS the name OF our CON-
mon savior then ask for a bible and read
She twenty-third psalm and then get down
on your knees and pray-if YOU dom see
heaven before you get through. I'll pay
the bill"
In the evening the parishioner called
on the pastor and said 81 saw heaven
and spent fifteen minutes there as GER
tainly as you are listening"
According TO all accounts the condition
OF the German working classes is pitiable.
In Saxony, for example, which is a great
manufacturing state, statistics show that
20 per cent of the workingmen earn less
than 600 marks-barelY $3.50. The aver
age weekly wages of the German working
man may be set down at something less
than ID marks-S3.50. This is not enough
. for him to live on, however poorly. He
| If, consequently, forced to make his wife
and children work to exc out an existence
as bare of comforts ss the desert of Sa-
bara is Of vegetation. In facts like these
we discovered the raison d'etre Of social
ism, and the cause of its significant
growth.
Leon de Rosny has founded a school of
Buddhism in Paris The number of die