Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-06-04
PastOrOfTrinity
Memorial Church
A Story of an Easter
Sermon.
By EDITH v. ROSS.

Inc ReN. Edgar aged TWEEN
ty-six. upon being graduated from the
theological seminary had no difficulty
In getting a church, though the salary
even for so young a man was small
He had been marked during his sem
mary course for eminence In his ca
reer, for he had the faculty Of speak
ing offhand, his voice was excellent
and his heart was in what he said.
But Mr.. Tyndale's first effort was
failure. His congregation expected
4 their pastor to tell them Of wickedness
generally. not particularly. He made
the mistake of holding up to then
those sins that beset them. The result
was that a party was 500 formed IL
the church to get rid of him. Hearing
of It, he offered his resignation, and IL
was accepted.
The young clergyman, a bit discour
aged In this first effort in his ministry
to introduce a better Christianity into
a congregation that considered itseli
beyond improvement, was thinking OF
turning his attention to a different ele
ment when he received the following
note:
Rev. Edgar Tyndale.
Dear Sir-Your name having been sug,
gested to me for the passionate OF Trinity
church at Pennington, which ! have re
Gently built in memory of my deceased
mother and which pastorate is in my gift
I wish to say that you are invited u
prepare a sermon to be delivered in the
church on the morning of Easter Sunday
next. l will be there, and IL l am salts,
fed to leave the church In your handi
you will receive the appointment. The
salary will be $1,000 a year. Should you
desire further information l will be pleas
ed to have you call at my house, No. 9
Eliot street, Pennington. Very truly yours
ELIZABETH WINKLE.
Mr.. Tyndale. after spending SOM,
time wondering what friend had sug
gested his name for the position. be
gan to consider the proposition. H,
would call on the writer and Learn
whether he would be permitted to at
tempt to make the congregation better
II SO, he would deliver the Easter ser
mon according to the invitations i
not. he would look elsewhere for a field
He found Elizabeth Wrinkle a littl,
old spinster. with a couple of short
white curls thanking a CHEEKY face oil
each side, When asked who had sug
gested his name to her she said tina
she was familiar with his work in thu
church he had inst left. that she wa
aware that he had been forced out OF
accoaat of his -haysng preached agains
individual instead of general sin and
hat she wanted just such a mar fol
her memorial church. She had bull
IL in the Sums. and a pastor was re
quired who would preach to sinners.
This accorded with MI. Tyndale's
wishes exactly. and he told Miss Win
kle that be would be happy to preacf
a sermon In her church on Easter Sun
day. He would, In the meantime, in
form himself somewhat as to the needs
Of the congregation and make his re
marks conform to those needs so fal
as he could. Before leaving he added
at have no desire to preach to thost
who are already as good as the world
expects them to be. | have no espe
cial interest in them nor have they il
me-"
w hat 10 W0ilIc0 III I'LL CdcCs IL
Piled the old lady, "is a sinner tt
preach to sinners"
Whether Mr.. Tyndale considered thai
he filed the first part of this require
ment he was quite pleased with it,
frankness. He went to Pennington
a manufacturing town, and found Trim
ity Memorial church in the center OF
H. 1tr4..so4 kof-cx. -. I'm 10hororc Hk
inquired as to the conditions Of the
people to whom he would be- required,
to preach and the principal tempta
lions by which they were beset. He
visited a number of families and noted
their physical as well as spiritual re
quirements.
Among those families that he visited
he found some necessities-sickness
and poverty-which, not having any
income, he did not feel able to relieve
and concluded to call again on Miss
Wrinkle and report them. His card
was responded to by a young lady
about twenty years old, who Informed
him that her aunt was indisposed and
had asked her to inquire If there was
anything Snc COuiU w ~ ILL., ~
Tyndale gave an account of the misery
he had witnessed, and the young lady
withdrew. telling him that she would
refer the matter to her aunt
When she returned she was in street
costume and told Mr.. Tyndale that she
would visit the sufferers and should be
obliged to him if he would pilot her
She had called up a chauffeur, and
they found a car at the door. On ar
irving at their destination the young
lady entered upon an examination OF
what was required, made a note OF
everything, spoke words Of comfort.
left some money for an emergency
with each family, re-entered the car
and, with the clergyman, was driven
away.