The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-10

The minister's life is more wearing than
the LAWYERS. or even than the doctors,
although the medical man lives
hard life But he takes vacations. A
lawyer has an easier life. He has his
tonic found for him, for instance, in
each case. The minister meets all men.
He is with the poor and lowly today,
in their hearts and homes, and with the
rich, in their hearts and homes, tomor-
row. And he has upon him all the
time the strain of the worry for those
in his fold who may be going astray.
sponsibility for the moral and physical
we'll being of his flock. the souls are in
his hands, and that is a grave burden
for any man."
Why" said Rev. Mr.. Muckley Of the
Christian Church, sit is the great di-
versity of my work that bears hardest
upon me, 1 think" Mr.. Muckley had
just been straining at the pulley ma
chine, along with a class of heavy
weights, at the Y. NJ. G. A. gymnasium,
when he was asked about his work,
and he looked physically weary, being
he was outclassed in weight by his
fellows. II do not at all mind the
preparation of the Sunday sermons. I
do not write them, because could not
memorize them, and my people would
not stand a read address. But 1 study
them, and that is a pleasure, because
it gives me study time that 1 would
not get otherwise. But I must go to
my church and teach Sunday School
class for an hour before I go into the
pulpit, and do as much talking as 1
do in sermon time. Then 1 preach my
sermon, and in the afternoon talk to
the young people, and then in the even
ing preach again. 1t is the multiple
ity of calls that wears, and then the
other duties, the duty to the sick, and
the business part of a preachers life.
Oh, I do not let the social business
worry me, at all.
Vacation? Well, I do not know. I
have only had two in ministry of
eleven years, and one of those was when
got married. So, you see, cannot talk
much about resting time. But it is
the multiplicity of duties that wears
ministers out"
Why" said the Rev. Father Valen-,
tin, pro-curator of the cathedral, I'VE
are always at work. I suppose" he
went on, breaking off from the writing
of a parochial letter to collect his
thoughts, cit is the calls to the sick
that bear hardest upon priest. We
must always go, you know, day or
night. In rain or shine, in winter and
summer, to the lowly and to the high,
that call to the sick is one that is
never passed by. My own duties here
are multifarious. I manage the bust
ness of the Mission, besides being the
supply for Waikiki. oh, yes; L go to
the sick also We all do that. And it
is the same, day after day. One day
last week, for instance. 1 was called
to Waikiki in the morning, and before
hand with the buggy to take me to
Kaimuki to another sick bed. I did
not get back until II at night, and then
when expected to rest, there was an,
other call. But we look for that. 1t
comes in addition to our regular labor,
and it is the hardest part-but it is
never neglected.
Vacations? Not at all. The Cath
Ollie clergy do not take vacation I
have been here fourteen years and
have worked all that time. 1t is my
place to work, my duty"
II do not let my labors bear hard
upon me, not hard enough to be called
arduous, any of Them" said Rev. Canon
Macintosh, of st. Andrews Cathedral
"None of my brethren will let theirs,
either, by the time they have been at
it as long as 1 have. My life, IN fact,
has adjusted itself in my thirty years
or more in the ministry. I take the
things that come philosophically, now |
But I grieve, always, when see sorrow
or sickness or grief that I cannot allie
viate in some way. To see suffering,
and be unable to help, that is the hard
thing in a minister's life. The petty
ills of every day roll off me as water
rolls from ducks back"
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