The Newtown bee., 1896-04-17

1 ter, aud boarded him and carried him to and from the station as well; for it was culy du irg the summer that a minister {. uId be kept on the field.
 Not that the deacon u,ped all these furction&, hut there seemed to be no one else to attend to them. Often had he drrlintd and rpm0n >tratrd, but All to no purposc. l. seemed 10 b. a case of ne~ -eits, and he deacon had made vr- tue of it and enjoyed it too, you may be
 sure.
 Almost every day his voice could be
 heard in the store conversing with his customers about what they were going
 to give ito help pay for preachin'."
 ''How do you like the minister" he I would commence.
 "Oh, he's q nice enough little felleE"
 sI thought you'd like him; everybody
 does. Have you seen the subscription
 paper? Here it i8. See, there's Job
 Hewitt'8 name. That's the first time he's
 put down anything since I've been in
 Kadosh." (Laughter.)
 ''Well, I guess ifJoD's put down some~
 thing I'll have to, sure.'
 The deacon was as wise as a serpent 1 and as harmless as a dove. 'Weu, DeacOn,' said the student as
 they sat one evening on the steps of the 1 ! store enjoying the peace of the twilight
 as it settled down over the hills and the n placid lake, II don't see that you have f much need of 6 pastor here. You're pas f. tor enough for kadesh tho, perhaps, it's well enough to have one of us youngsters d come up from the seminary once year p to keep you posted on theology" The q deacon laughed he was pleased. It was in not often that his services were spoken of k except to be found fault with. "Deacon,' ,'' a- continued the student, did you ever
 preachE"
 ro "No," said the deacon, with another ,a laugh; "but once last winter, when it .r- blowed so the minister couldn't get here Ia read a sermon of some big preacher, 8 rv Boston man, Brooks l think his name .e- was. There was only sixteen out, but 4d they said it was the best service we had I , last winter"
 ro The student did not wonder, tho ht ..- could not help smiling to think how nm Phillips Brooks would sound in DeacOr or Dorrs gepulchral Sabbath tones. 10 II tended a funeral once, too," con ho tinued the deacon. Ut Il be four years ,, come March. There had been the worst ,;s snowfall of the winter, 1t began of s ho Monday and never held up till Tuesday .r night. About three o'clock "Wednesday ,3 morning it commenced to blow, and i ,t piled up the drifts higher'n l ever saw tl+ them before. About two o'clock tha }o afternoon, when the wind begun to gt ;n down little, l saw some men coming
 down over the hill there 00 snOWshoes . dragging something on a w00d-sled. ,n. went out to see what they had on the sle' - and found that it was the body of ol' II Peter Cassidy. They told me he die'
 Saturday, and they sent down word t .1- minister at RushtOWn to come up ant ,,o tend bis funeral Tuesday. But seeiDi ', that the roads wouldn't be broke out f0
 nearly a week likely, they had no hope au of the minister comin and had brough him down on the sled and were goir ..1 to put him in the vault; and they sai
 they wanted me to read Scripture an , prayer, if l would. Of course l couldn .t' say No to that; so we took him into tn -d store and called down the fanily an .hl done as they asked me to-"
 If that was not ordination," thougt ,,, the student, "what s:7
 The summer had drawn to close. FOt @a had united with the little church, nal
 ing a total membership of thirty-one, a
 increase which made Deacon D0rr jub 1e lant. In the winning of these four deacC ~t had been the chief agent, but had give all the credit to the youthful supply ..- That individual, on the evening befo ,..1 his departure from Kadesh, sat in u 'F.1 deacon $ sitting room thinking of the pa ~ months and chiefly of good man who w 7s2 doing so much, and doing it so disinte ..o estedly, for this isolated country churc -a3 As he glanced at the Bible, lying open {
 the table beside him, his eye fell on u ;.,. words:
 - II am among you as he that serves
 -. "How much more of a success,' .0 thought, ''bas the life of this man real o1L. been than if that business failure h, never driven him to. this distant b :. happy home to do this obscute yet ho 's 1s ored work. If ever man magnitied ~. office it is Deacon Dorr."