The Springdale news., 1909-08-27
',Nacations For Preachers As An
 investment"

'Nacations For Preachers As In
 investment"
 This was the subject of a strik- ing editorial in a recent issue Of The Atlanta Constitution. It is So full of soundness that We print it in full. As you read it. remember that it was not written by a minis ter. but by man of affairs, and that it was not originally published in a religious paper. but in large secular paper There are still a good many people who have an idea that the minister has comparatively little to do, and they can not see any reason why he should take a vacation IL is to be hoped they will read this editorial. Here it is:
 If the theory of regular vaea- tions has been accepted as con eeaas. commonplace in the business world. how much more yiyidly should it's principles apply to those self sasr ficing men whose important function it is to safeguard the spiritual status and welfare of the community?
 The clergyman s life has it's be ginning and ending, and all it's in termediate chapters, in ceaseless ae- tivities. Never is he released from continual strain, whether it be preparation for his weekly discourse or the even more exacting require ment of mingling upon intimate terms with all sorts and conditions of men.
 The demand upon his sympathles is proverbial and perpetual. In sor- row and sickness, sin and suffer | ing. joy and success and failure, marriage and death, his services are in requistion; and to each fresh and differing call he must bring a keen and perceptiye mind and spirit ehastened of weakness and self.
 "The ordinary individual would fall upon absolute collapse after few days of gruelling and contras- ted tests of this nature But the preacher. of whatever denomination, is expected 10 endure it smilingly, tt preserve his eheerfulness under all conditions. and to deliver saeh sound wisdom to his flock from the pulpit as can come only from a sound mind supported by wig orous and untired body
 The marvel is that they meet the situation with such unvaryine success.
 Of later years, churches have be gun to realize the peculiar intensity of the demands upon their minis ters. and to introduce here and there the salutary vacation idea. Tn Atlanta many of the wealthier congregations have adopted the an nual leave of absence as reg ular feature insisting that their preachers spend several weeks oi each year in rest or differing pur- suits. and supplying then with the wherewithal minus which Vaea- ton would be an impossibilty.
 The practice should be made so universal as to constitute the rule rather than the exception. Fro the sheer standpoint of self-interest the congregation that makes sac refiees to send it's preacher into q new environment reaps immeasafahle dividends fn pleasure and spiritual profit
 The effective preacher ot today k he whose intellectual horizon is kept broad and Vorld-embracing ane wholesome Nothing 90 condaees 10 maintenance of this condition as contact at regular intervals with other peoples and things. and access to new ideas and angles of life. suet a preacher. his physical energies re cruited to concert pitch. returns to his congregation brimming with inspiration, better qualified mental ly and physically and spirituality to aid his parishoners in confronting the eternal probelms of the world the flesh and the devil
 of course, the well-to-do churches of the smaller towns could not afford to be as liberal as their weathier neighbors. but there is no reason why. with the observer ance of economy. they could not ef- feet an approximate policy -Ex- change
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