The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27
THE MINISTER'S RESIGNATION.
The People Got Their Change Afte
All.

The People Got Their Change After
F. E. c. Robbins, in the Youths Com
panion.
Let me see." said Miss Eleanor Banks.
on the first afternoon of her visit to her
aunt at Pennington village, didn't you
write me last winter that your minister
had resigned?'
Il guess perhaps I did," was the reply,
in a somewhat absent-minded tone.
1T seems TO me that l got the impress
sion from your letter that the resignation
did not cause universal regret" suggested
the niece, after waiting for a moment for
her aunt to enlarge upon the theme.
Maybe you did," said the old lady, who
hard it may be for a thread to pass through
the eye or needle.
Presently she added. with the manner
TO let the subject drop. There were some
of the people who thought that Mr.. Pease
had kind of lost his usefulness.
He had been here long time, hadn't
hep asked her niece
'Yes, that was just it. Mr.. Pease had
been here going on thirty years; and as
you might say, we had got him learned by
heart. We always knew what he was
going to say next, and it's no use denying
that he was getting TO be rather dry in the
pulpit. l didn't mind it so much myself
but your uncle Andrew did, and that was
worse. The preaching 1 could stand, but
what with that of Sunday and Andrews
taking on about il all the rest of the week,
! Mas beginning to get about beat out my
Every now and then somebody would
come around and want him to speak to the
minister about resgning. OF course, if
anything of consequence is to be done In
the parish. it is always your uncle An
drew that has TO go ahead with it, They
would argue that Mr.. Pease was comforta-
bly, off, and his wife had property besides.
and so it would be no hardship for him
to step aside.
But Andrew couldn't make up his mind
TO do 1T, so things went along with the
society fast running to seed, when all Of a
sudden, and without any help from any
body, the minister did resign.
many felt to rejoice. but 1 guess nobody
was quite so tickled as Andrew. For a
few days it seemed as If he could not
he was.
He did the pspering and painting that
L had been at him about for two years,
hadn't so much as asked for. Then he
took it into his head that must get up
farewell reception to the minister.
"Well all the folks seemed to fall in
with that idea, and if you'll believe me,
they raised 500 in gold for parting gift.
"Of course there was a general invita-,
# to the ba We after so
all shaken hands with the minister and
his wife, Andrew came up front and made
the presentation speech.
81 do wish you could have heard him.
OF course your uncle is gifted in speech,
but L guess he surprised himself that
night. Yet he didn't say anything but the
truth. Mr.. Pease had been a faithful
minister-one that had visited the widow
and fatherless in thier aff1iction, and been
helpful in sickness, and stood by us all
in trouble, and tried to comfort us when
we buried our dead.
But it was wonderful the way your
uncle Andrew worked all those good
things Mr.. Pease had done into his speech.
1t took hold of US more and more as he
went along, until by the time he got
through, aL1 handed over the 500 I'm gold
to the minister, about everybody in the
hall was having q good hard cry.
"As for Mr.. Pease, he could hardly speak