Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-12-05
How About the Ministry


Let us turn and study your boy. He
is fine fellow, strong, we'll built and
brainy. He has always stood up well
in his classes. Then he hns wonder
full power of speech. He Is q born
orator. Then in addition to all these
characteristics he has inherited your
mothers deep religious nature. You
never heard him tell a falschood. You
never knew him TO do contemplate
thing. He Is always Kind, gentle and
manly. You know it would only take
little urging on your part to land him
In the ministry. Would you like him to
be minister? Would you have him go
out as home missionary in the lum-
Der camps Of the west? Would you
want him to work night and day as
your father did, who was a minister.
and then be criticised and found fault
with and live all his life on a salary
that a good mechanic would despise :?
No. Why not? You profess the rel!-
gious life is the happiest why do you
not want your boy to take it up? Some
how your profession Of Christ and
your action toward your boy do not
seem to blend.
Then there is that daughter of yours
The other day she startled you with
the question: Mother would Won let
me go into the slums and do settle
ment work? | am sure | could do n
lot Of good" Why did yoy not give
your consent? There are your two chill.
dren with very little urging ready to
give themselves up to Christian work.
You profess to believe that the Chris
tlan life Is the happlest OF all lives.
Are you any different in your am
billions for your children from the men
and the women of the world in refer.
ence to their children?
was nightly impressed with this
fact the other day when attending a
missionary meeting. l think that
without any doubt the best women of
every church-I mean the most spir.
itual minded-are gathered each month
in our missionary societies. That day
they were giving farewell reception
to beloved Christian worker She
p u,
without doubt the most brilliant lady
speaker | have ever heard in Califor.
mia. For some years she had lahored
in Asia, and then she returned to her
own country on account of broken
down health. Her health having been
restored, she heard of little mining
camp in one of our western states
where there was no Young Woman's
I Christian association established. She
also heard that Ia this rough mining
camp quite a number of young girls
had gone wrong because they had nc
one to look after them. So this bril-
liant young woman volunteered TO &C
to that mining camp and care for those
young girls. We were bidding hel
goodby. She went without a dollar OF
salary and entirely alone. She left al
her friends and associations behind
AS | looked at the well dressed ladies
at that reception, who came from some
OF the lest families in the city, | said
Il wonder how many of us would b,
glad to surrender our daughters tC
Gods service and have them do VIVA
that young woman is going to do?"
Oh, my friends, 1t Is so easy to or!
in holy raptules over the Sacrifices
Christian heroes and heroines have
made for the Master, but the grea
question for us to decide is, How ar
we different from the men Of TIN
world in our ambitions and hopes 70
our children? Are we really dlfferen
In our households from the publican
and the Pharisees?
Becoming a Christian Is something
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