The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-12-25
DIR. SINCLAIR'S
EXPERIENCES
Marries Candidates While they Wait
With Good Advice and a
Story Gratis.
The Doctor Jumps Onto DefOrmed
Spelling and Has a Jolly
for julius.

Presbyterianism IN New England,
has the felicity of providing very
largely for the working classes.
Church visiting is therefore diff
cult business, especially the visiting
of servants. Two weeks ago, went
to fashionable house to visit
coachman who was coming into the
church with US at communion. |
rang the bell and asked if could see
William. Yes" said the girl, If
you will go round to the stable,
William will come out and meet
you That is an exception of
course, but you can see the diff
Guilty.
The Baptist minister told me not
long ago that he had given up visit
ing servants, because it was often
as uncomfortable for them as it was
for him. He went to house one
day to visit nurse girl. He found
her on the porch with two children
of tender age, boy and girl. He
talked for few minutes and came
away. AS he was going down the
steps he heard the little girl whis-
per to the nurse: Il say. Christine,
is that your beau?"
Of baptisms and marriages, | have
not a few. The worst feature of
the baptisms is that you cannot get
them to come to church. Out of
fifty or sixty baptisms in year,
only ten or dozen of them are
baptized in church. And every bap-
tism involves the breaking up of
whole evening, even if the house is
only few blocks away. Only there
is this gain. that by that evening
visit, when all the family is there,
| get an acquaintance with the fam
lily which | would not have other
wise, and l have a better opportun-
ity than | could have in church of
emphasizing the meaning and re-
sponsibility of the ordinance.
There are often interesting things
and sometimes amusing things con-
nected with the marriages. The
Massachusetts, law does not require
witnesses. With only the couple to
be married present, man has the
better chance of saying few plain
things about what husband and
wife must do relative to one anoth-
err, if there is to be happy life.
Not very long ago | was marrying
an English footman. | took occa-
sion to say that the way in which a
wife received her husband when he
came in from his work any evening
would make a great difference in
the Joy or misery Of the evening in
the house. If for example the wife
were to snarl at her husband for
letting the supper be cold before he
returned and he to assume a similar
attitude got no further in the
argument, when the man pulled me
up by declaring; "Oh but | would
never answer her back; | know bet
ter than that; | would just go out
and take a smoke till she cooled
down" That speech might be diff
ferently interpreted 1t was the
first of the kind | had heard in the
middle of marriage ceremony. |
survived it.
In the end of summer this year, a
man called me up oyer the phone
at IL o'clock on a Saturday to ask if
| would marry him that afternoon.
| said | would if the marriage was
regular. He said that it depended
on what | counted regular and adj
ded; 81 have been divorced from
my wife and the woman | am to
marry has been divorced from her
husband" | said to him that all
the churches nowadays were OPP
posed to marrying divorced people,