The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-12-28

putting money in their vaults. The
sick men will perish, while the sound
constitution has an opportunity to
prove it's assertions and appearance to
be fact There are banks in the city whose
roots spread SO much wider than their
branches that the shocks of the last
few days are not felt below the sur
face. When these evil days are over,
when the clouds of prosperity break
over our heads, when that brassy sun
loses countenance, when, above all the
matured corn rustles in the wide fields
we will open up our little stocking hoard
and put it back in the bank that our
timidity would have ruined had II not
had a source of supply practically mex
haustible. Then, to return to figures.
we will look up into the green tree and
say what a fine old tree, there is moth
ing else like il in all the country round,
IL is a land mark. Its roots are so deep
that many seasons of drought have had
no effect upon it. Besides, they do say,
at bottom there is a subterranean
stream, the same one that feeds the
mighty river that passes through Ne
braska and Iowa that will keep this
oak a resting place for our children's
children"
The Presbyterian church is still with
out a pastor. Perhaps it is just as well
that the Minneapolis minister, who was
called, did not come, though talented
he is and good. Church congregations
are exacting and their requirements are
not limited by the salary paid the min
lister. He must be learned, elegant,
eloquent, visit the sick and the stranger,
always be able to say the right thing
in the right place, at the right time
and he must be magnetic enough to
influence all, members of the congrega-
ton as well as members of the church
to put their shoulders against the inev-
table church debt and roll it away.
That was the work of an angel once.
The shining being described in the
foregoing only exists in supernature.
A minister is a man, not a miracle. He
is usually much better and less selfish
than the ordinary man. Various con-
gregations have tried him till his chas-
tened spirit occupies less beefy body,
still the earth odor will cling to it I'M
til released, and clamor for PASTORAL
perfection will only hasten the day Of
his flight. Probably the Minneapolis
minister has not yet reached the stage
of miraculous development demanded
by a church looking about for light
to guide it and which it also expects
delivery was poor it would have reflect
ed on Mr.. MacLean's judgment; If his
wife We're ''airy," the chancellor should
have known better. etc, etc. Churches
have a good effect on a community and
we could not get along without them,
but sometimes it is just as cool and
bracing on the outside as il is inside.
Ministers have dedicated themselves to
humanity and the discipline is as Sc
we're as monkish Negotiations ever were.
They viii get their reward in another
and a better place. 1t is just as well
that they know in the beginning that
they will never get it here. 1t is a CO.
incidence that Chancellor Garfield was
instrumental in securing a parish for
Mr.. Hewitt in Columbus and that Chan
cellor MacLs ans good opinion infiuenc-
ed the Presbyterian church Of this city
TO extend a call to the Minneapolis
man.