Even that excellent woman, Mrs. Boyzy, whose mind is often tortured
by the apprehension that absence from church service will seriously
affect my future prospers, often regales me after church with keen
criticism of the sermon and the weak points of our preacher. And yet
that estimable woman, on hearing our eldest daughter indulge last
Sunday in a similar strain, warned her against the wickedness of her
irreverence. I beg you to understand that I am not taking the part of
pastors against congregations any more than I would take the part of
our little girl against her pious mother, but what I write is merely
to blaze the way, as it were, to a settlement of the question: Whether
a pastor is a shepherd set over a congregation by the Almighty, or
whether he is a man whom an angry God has delivered into their hands
that he may suffer for his sins.
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Have I said anywhere in this paper that Spring has come? Well, I say
it now. It is a sad, gloomy time to man, however woman may look at it.
It is now that the family man sees looming ahead the Easter bonnet
trimmed with deadly $ marks, and the Spring outfits embroidered with
the same costly material.
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