Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-12-20
THE PASTOR AND HIS PEOPLE.

THE PASTOR AND his PEOPLE.
An Interesting Paper Read at Ministerial
Meeting by Row. Henry Albertson.
The pastors first duty is to his PEG.
pie. It is this relation I wish to speak
about most particularly. In these days
when so much emphasis is laid on the
question, allow do you like your
preacher?" we may inquire also, "What
kind Of q preacher do the people like?"
and also incidentally are the likes Of q
church or q community q safe rule for
Q preachers conduct. The love of ap-
prevail is one Of the strong passions.
We want. our peoples good will. We
must ::have more-their respect. We
hope also to win their confidence.
What manner Of men ought We to be
that unto US may this be given. We
will needs, arstof all, to be true men.
A deceiver, however sharp,!can notget,
OF long retain mems goodwill, respect
or confidence. Then, we must be
trained men. U%nlettered, unskillful,
undeveloped men may have the good
will and confidence Of people, but new
or their respect. Then again We must
bs large hearted. Not given to CEN
sure. Able to keep back the hasty re-
mark, and will not consent to say any
unkind word. Our Discipline speaking
on this matter says, 'your word will
burn as it we're a hot iron and eat as
doth a canker." The preachers are not
a few who destroy their usefulness be-
cause Of this evil speaking. Some do,
just because they talk too much. They
do not consider that silence is golden
or that their words "a not all she ap-
pies o. gold in baskets silver" because
they are not all ftly spoken. People
appreciate a good listner more than a
good talker. Whatever p%rovocation a
pastor may have he must not descend
into the pit to scold. He may correct,
reprove, .rebuke. eXhort, but never
scold. A complaining or fretful tenn
per will disgust all good people. Never
hammer the few faithful one who do
attend because there..b be those who do
not. One soul is worth u best SER
mons. People like a::sociable preacher.
Not one who can play the clown OF the
buffoon'and give them entertainment,
butssthe man who has 1.-THE joy Of the
Lord in his heart and the sweetness of
his Lord like incense a sweet smelling
SAVIOR, rising from him continually.
People like..to hear preaching that has
force and junction. A man may be
brilliant, eloquent and master of all
the forms of speech, and yet have
Ineither1force nor JUNCTION. "If a mans
wordsworth be thunder his life must
be lightning" If,all the force a mar
has is in his wind il ftruments he is
weak indeed. But if round about hin
theresplays the. divine tightening sin
ners wills quake and .tremble at his
works. But if the divine electricity il
not in us how shall we thunder2 But
besides the roar and when mems heart!
are moved it is equally essential tina
there be a deep junction, a broodin,
compassion, a heart that is so sensitiv,
to SOU needs that it can detect instant
ly the souls that are turning to God
A heart so charged with;love that lik'
Il great magnet it searches out tn
metal and draws it from the dust, pull
ling mems hearts away.from their sin
and giving them q, pull toward God
This brooding compassion cannot b.
ours unless, like our Lord, we ais
lgive our lives for the brethren. On
Model Jesus is a model to us in that b,
gave himself for the church that b,
might sanctify and cleanse it with the
washing of water by his word, that h
church not having spot OR wrinkle O
any such thing; but that it should b.
wholly and without blemish" tt
preacher is to be a spiritual teacher
above I'LL. Literary attainments, phil
osophical abilities, scientific ~.:gleaning.
and all other attainments or abilitie!
are to be subjected to this one thing
he is not to feed his people on poetry
art or science, OF philosophy, OF cve1
theology, but he may use these to Civ.
them the Christ, the bread of life.
So far as the peoples likes being
safe rule for a preachers conduct, the.
are, only SO far as the people like thu
Christ way of living and doing. Thu
likes of nj godly member who work
righteously is better worth than a hun
dred inconsistent but so-called s'goot
people," Often the people like VIVA
they ought not to have, and then TIL
misa naStor mlSt kuaw how To civ