{"1": {"fulltext": "I\\nED?,; 5\\nM\\n\\\\j\u00c2\u00ab 4", "height": "4790", "width": "3175", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap.:Q___. Copyright No.\\nShelf___,W_5\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "4651", "width": "2967", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4606", "width": "3028", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4388", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4388", "width": "2735", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4721", "width": "3076", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4713", "width": "3028", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4164", "width": "2424", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4164", "width": "2424", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4451", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Church Folks", "height": "4451", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Church Folks\\nBEING PRACTICAL STUDIES\\nIN CONGREGATIONAL LIFE\\nBy\\nIan MAgLAREN\\n(Dr. John Watson)\\nAUTHOR OF BESIDE THE BONNIE BRIER BUSH,\\nTHE MIND OF THE MASTER, THE CURE OF SOULS, ETC.\\nNEW YORK\\nDOUBLEDAY, PAGE CO,\\n1900\\n1", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "61844\\n1 1^\u00e2\u0080\u0094 i\\nU r\u00c2\u00bbry of Conor\\nIwo Cums RlC\u00c2\u00a3t*EO\\nOCT 16 1900\\nO\\nStCMtP COPY\\n[oC T^ 30 1900\\nCopyright, 1899, 1 9\u00c2\u00b0\u00c2\u00b0i\\nby the Curtis Publishing Company\\nCopyright, 1900,\\nby Doubleday, Page Company", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nPAGE.\\ni. How to Make the Most of a Sermon, 1\\nii. How to Make the Most of Your\\nMinister, 19\\nin. The Candy-Pull System in the\\nChurch, 37\\nrv. The Mutineer in the Church,\\nv. Should the Old Clergyman Be Shot\\nvi. The Minister and the Organ,\\nvii. The Pew and the Man in it,\\nVin. The Genteel Tramps in Our Church\\nes,\\nix. Is the Minister an Idler?\\nx. The Minister and His Vacation,\\nxi. The Revival of a Minister,\\n54\\n71\\n88\\n109\\n126\\n145\\n165\\n186", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Church Folks.\\nHow to Make the Most of a See-\\nMON,\\nUnto the success of a sermon two\\npeople contribute, and without their\\njoint efforts the sermon must be a fail-\\nure. One is the preacher and the other\\nis the hearer, and if some art goes to the\\ncomposition of the sermon, almost as\\nmuch goes to its reception.\\nIn the art of the hearer the first\\ncanon is practice, for it is a fact that\\nthe regular attendant not only hears\\nmore but also hears better than the per-\\nson who drops into church once in two", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "2 Church Folks\\nmonths. Eo doubt if the preacher has\\nlungs of brass, and the hearer is not\\nstone deaf, a casual can catch every\\nword on the rare occasion when he at-\\ntends, although for the past six weeks\\nhe has worshipped at home or made the\\nround of the neighboring churches.\\nThere is some difference, however, be-\\ntween a steam whistle which commands\\nits audience within a given area with-\\nout distinction, and a musical instru-\\nment to which ears must be attuned for\\nits appreciation.\\nThe Chief Condition of Successful\\nHearing.\\nThe voice of a competent speaker is\\nnot so much sound merely, but is so\\nmuch music, with subtle intonations\\nand delicate modulations; his pronun-\\nciation of a word is a commentary upon\\nit; his look as he speaks is a translation\\nof it; his severity is softened by the", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 3\\npathos of his tone his praise is doubled\\nby its ring of satisfaction. A stranger s\\near is not trained to such niceties it is\\nthe habituated ear which reaps the full\\nsense.\\nBesides, every speaker worth hearing\\ncreates his own atmosphere, and one\\ncannot hear with comfort until he is\\nacclimatized. The speaker has his own\\nstandpoint, and one must be there to\\nthink with him; he passes every word\\nthrough his own mint, and one must be\\nfamiliar with the stamping. Casuals\\nare puzzled by the man, but his famil-\\niar friends are at home with him. He\\nsaid this or that, the casual urges.\\nOh, yes, answers the expert, but\\nwith him that means something more.\\nPerhaps the chief condition of success-\\nful hearing is to know the speaker, his\\nworking axioms, his special devotion,\\nhis unconscious prejudices, his charac-\\nteristic message, and this knowledge can\\nonly be got by continual hearing.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "4 Church Folks\\nWhen a Minister Reveals Himself.\\nIt is not in private that a minister\\nreally reveals himself; it is in the pul-\\npit. When you met him on Saturday\\nupon the street he spoke of the weather\\nor about a book, hiding himself as every\\nreal man does, in ordinary intercourse\\non Sunday, without knowing, he drops\\nhis mask till you can read his character\\nand have seen his soul. Of course,\\nsome men are as veiled in preaching as\\nin conversation, but in that case their\\nhearers have lost nothing; there is no\\nindividuality to reveal, only a lay figure\\nbeneath the conventional garments of\\nthe day. It takes one month of con-\\nstant wear to break in a pair of heavy\\nwalking boots, and at least six months\\nto fit into a new study chair a year of\\nconstant attendance is required to place\\none on easy terms with a preacher, and\\nthen the advantage must not be thrown\\naway.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 5\\nScottish Congregations Which Ap-\\npear Asleep.\\nThe second canon is attention, which\\ncomes to this, that a hearer shall make\\nhis body serve his soul in church. Peo-\\nple may be listening when they sit mo-\\ntionless with their eyes shut, and many\\nexplain that they have simply with-\\ndrawn themselves from a disturbing en-\\nvironment, but in that case they ought\\nto give some sign of life at intervals, if\\nonly to reassure the preacher and to\\nsave their neighbors from the sin of\\nuncharitable judgment. There are con-\\ngregations in Scotland where one-third\\nof the audience appears to be asleep, but\\nthe preacher is afterward assured that\\nthese very hearers could give the best\\naccount of his sermon and are the keen-\\nest critics of his orthodoxy. They do\\nnot, however, form an exhilarating spec-\\ntacle for the preacher, and his tempta-\\ntion will often be to say something", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "6 Church Folks\\nheterodox in order to compel them to\\ngive some sign of interest.\\nIf any one. on the other hand, is af-\\nflicted by the evil spirit of restlessness\\nwhich is ever impelling him to fidget\\nand sometimes drives him beneath the\\nbook-board, then this man ought either\\nto master his tormentor by practice at\\nhome, or he should be placed in some\\nspecial seat where he may hear but not\\nbe seen.\\nAudiences of Studied Negligence.\\nNor does it, in any way, assist sym-\\npathetic hearing for a man to fold his\\narms and throw himself into his seat as\\none who knows what is before him and\\nwill endure to the end without flinch-\\ning. A preacher may at any time refer\\nto the noble army of martyrs, but he\\ndoes not wish to address a body of mar-\\ntyrs in his own church. Nothing will\\nmore certainly discourage a preacher,", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 7\\ntill the words break on his lips and he\\ncan hardly maintain grammar, than an\\naudience in every attitude of studied\\nnegligence, and nothing will more cer-\\ntainly inspire him than one unbroken\\nexpanse of intelligent faces.\\nWhen a Sermon Can be Heard\\nAright.\\nNext comes concentration, and here\\nthe trained hearer has an enormous\\nadvantage. If it be difficult for some\\npeople to listen, it is ten times harder\\nfor other people to follow, for it is evi-\\ndent a person may listen and not follow.\\nVery few are accustomed to think about\\nthe same thing, or, indeed, to think\\nabout anything, for thirty minutes;\\nafter a brief space their interest flags\\nand they fall behind they have long\\nago lost the thread of the preacher s ar-\\ngument and have almost forgotten his\\nsubject. The sermon which suits such", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "8 Church Folks\\na desultory mind is one of twenty para-\\ngraphs, each paragraph an anecdote or\\nan illustration or a startling idea, so\\nthat wherever the hearer joins in he can\\nbe instantly at home. Sensible people\\nought, however, to remember that a\\nseries of amusing lantern-slides and a\\nwork of severe art are not the same, and\\nif any one is to expound the gospel of\\nChrist worthily he must reason as he\\ngoes and ask his hearers to think. The\\nchain may be of gold, but there ought to\\nbe links securely fastened together, and\\na hearer should try them as they pass\\nthrough his hands. If one does not\\nbrace himself for the effort of hearing\\na sermon he will almost certainly finish\\nup by complaining either that the\\npreacher was dull or that the discourse\\nwas disconnected. ~No sermon is worth\\nhearing into which the preacher has not\\nput his whole strength, and no sermon\\ncan be heard aright unless the hearer\\ngives his whole strength also.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 9\\nWhat a Preacher is Entitled to.\\nMy fourth canon of successful listen-\\ning is candor, and a preacher is entitled\\nto ask this quality of his hearer. If a\\njuryman enters the box with his mind\\nmade up regarding the case, then it is\\nvain for any counsel to speak, and there\\nis no hope of securing a just verdict.\\nIf a person enters church with hope-\\nless prejudices in the matter of truth,\\nthen it does not matter how able or how\\neloquent the preacher may be, he can-\\nnot get access to that hearer s mind.\\nThe honest hearer is one who is willing\\nto consider every argument and to re-\\nvise every conclusion, except, of course,\\nthose half dozen outstanding verities\\nwhich no preacher of intellectual sanity\\nwould ever attack and which every re-\\nligious person accepts as final. There\\nare, however, many sides of truth\\nwhich a hearer may never have seen\\nand many applications of truth which", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "I o Church Folks\\nmay never have occurred to him.\\nHe ought to be willing to follow the\\npreacher as a guide and at least to judge\\nthe prospect for himself: he ought to\\nbe willing to consider how far the\\npreacher s word affects his own con-\\nduct.\\nNothing stimulates a preacher and\\ngives him greater confidence in ex-\\npounding truth than the assurance that\\nevery word which he speaks from an\\nhonest mind will be considered by\\nhonest hearers. He feels that if they\\nagree with him, it will be because they\\nhave been convinced; if they disagree\\nwith him, it will be because in their\\njudgment he has failed to make good\\nhis plea.\\nThe Atmosphere Killing to a\\nChurch.\\nAnd the last canon is charity, which\\nblesses twice the man who preaches", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 1 1\\nand the people who hear. ISTo atmos-\\nphere is so injurious to the hearer, and\\nnone so trying to the preacher, as petty\\ncriticisms and malicious interpretation.\\nPeople ought to hear in a large and\\ngenerous spirit, remembering that the\\npreacher is a man of like frailties with\\nthemselves, and remembering that no\\nman ought to be judged except on the\\nlength and breadth of his teaching. It\\nis possible that one day he may be dull\\nit is a matter of the weather; it is\\npossible another day that he may not\\nbe sweet-tempered it is a matter of\\ndigestion; the hearers ought to make\\ngreat allowances for one who has to\\nwork with the double instrument of a\\nfickle mind and an imperfect body.\\nHearers should lay it down as a rule\\nthat no man ever can be equal except\\nhe travel on the plane of dreary com-\\nmonplace.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "1 2 Church Folks\\nThe Preacher Who is Always the\\nSame.\\nIt is said that once a deputation from\\na vacant congregation went to hear a\\nmiddle-aged doctor of divinity, a man\\nof placid disposition and uninspired\\nmind. After hearing him preach a ser-\\nmon which he had prepared on the\\nMonday forenoon preceding, and the\\nlike of which he could have prepared\\nevery forenoon following, they asked\\none of his congregation whether that\\nwas a fair specimen of the doctor s\\npreaching. a Ye may, he said, depend\\non that hear him once ye hear him\\never; he s aye the same; there are no\\nups and downs with the doctor. Cer-\\ntainly he never descended below the\\neven road of bare common sense, and\\ncertainly he never ascended to the\\nheights of inspiration. Many preachers\\nfind that every fourth or fifth Sunday,\\nas the case may be, they fail, beating", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 1 3\\nthe ground with their wings, and not\\nbeing able to rise. Their congregations\\nwill receive ample compensation on the\\nSunday following, and they will enjoy\\nthe top of the mountain, with its far\\nview and breezy atmosphere, all the\\nmore on account of the valley wherein\\nthey walked and were shut in.\\nThe Cruelest Act of the Pew.\\nOne of the cruelest acts of injustice\\non the part of the pew is to suspect the\\npreacher of personality and to read\\nunthought-of meanings into his words.\\nShould a preacher describe with much\\nminuteness of detail and a certain\\nkeenness of feeling any particular sin,\\nhis hearers ought to be certain that he\\nis describing his own sin, for, indeed,\\nno man knows any sin as he knows his\\nown.\\nIt is best for the hearer to believe\\nthat the preacher is moved simply in\\neverything he says by loyalty to truth", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "14 Church Folks\\nand by the love of his fellow-men, and\\nthat no one regrets so bitterly as he\\ndoes any shortcoming in exposition or\\nany defect in the spirit of his teaching.\\nHis desire is to convince and to com-\\nfort; his one reward the spiritual help\\nwhich he affords to the souls of his\\nfellow-men. If by his words any brother\\nman is strengthened to do his work with\\nmore faithfulness during the week, or\\nis succored amid the trials of life, then\\nhe has not failed in his calling and does\\nnot regret his sacrifices. His endeavor\\nis the highest known in human life and\\nhis labor is the hardest. Unto him\\ntherefore should be extended the utmost\\nsympathy, and for him there should be\\noffered the most constant and earnest\\nprayer.\\nListening Without Practice K o\\nUse.\\nXo hearer has given a preacher a fair\\nchance if he forgets what has been said", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 1 5\\nat the church door, or if he treats a\\nsermon as an essay to be discussed. The\\nchurch is not a place of recreation nor\\na debating society it is a school, where\\nthe chief lesson of knowledge is taught\\nhow to live. The instructions are\\ngiven from the pulpit; the demonstra-\\ntion must be made at home. Above all\\nreligions, Christianity is experimental\\nand practical a set not of rules, but\\nof principles which must be wrought\\nout in the details of each man s life.\\nThat preacher has understood his duty\\nand done it who moves a man to action,\\nand that hearer has made the utmost\\nof a sermon who has proved it in prac-\\ntice. It is not necessary that the\\npreacher be didactic, saying as to chil-\\ndren, You must do this or that/\\nwhich is insufferable and ineffectual.\\nThe best preachers are suggestive, mak-\\ning men ashamed of low living by the\\nexposure of sin, and moving men to\\nnobility by exhibiting the beauty of", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "1 6 Church Folks\\nvirtue. The honest hearer does not do\\ngood afterward because he was told, but\\nbecause he must. He has opened his\\nheart to the message of truth as soft\\nspring soil for the seed, and in this\\nhospitable home the seed springs up.\\nThe Chief End of Every Sermon.\\nAbove all things, the Christian\\npreacher makes two demands, and both\\ncan be justified only by the obedience\\nof the hearer. He invites his audience\\nto become disciples and servants of\\nJesus; he magnifies the Master s grace\\nand power; he assures his fellow-men\\nthat to trust in Jesus and to follow Him\\nis to live. If the hearer argues and\\ndebates about Jesus, he can never arrive\\nat the facts, and he has not dealt fairly\\nwith the preacher. Let him put the\\nmatter to the test and make the adven-\\nture with Jesus as did the first Chris-\\ntians. If he does, then he will be able\\nto judge the preacher; if not, he ought", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 1 7\\nto be silent. Never has there been more\\nfutile criticism than that of hearers who\\nwill not believe: such people wander\\nround the outside of the cathedral and\\ndiscuss the painted glass, which can\\nonly be understood from the inside.\\nAnother appeal of the Christian\\npreacher is for sacrifice, and it is his\\nduty to magnify the glory of unselfish\\nliving. He asks people to do what is\\nhard and unattractive, and promises\\nthem a gain which is spiritual and\\nunseen. It lies upon the hearer to\\nverify this commandment for himself,\\nand to find out whether serving others,\\nand not one s self, does make one hap-\\npier and stronger.\\nThe chief end of preaching is, after\\nall, inspiration, and the man who has\\nbeen set on fire is the vindication of the\\npulpit. The chief disaster of preaching\\nis detachment and indifference. Never\\nwas any sermon so poor and thin but it\\ncontained more than its hearers could", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "1 8 Church Folks\\npractise. ]STo sermon has failed which\\nhas sent one man away richer by a\\nsingle thought, or stirred to a single\\nbrave deed.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "II\\nHow to Make the Most of Your\\nMinister.\\nBetween a minister and his congre-\\ngation there is an action and a reaction,\\nso that the minister makes the congrega-\\ntion, and the congregation makes the\\nminister. When one speaks of a minis-\\nter s service to his people, one is not\\nthinking of pew rents and offertories\\nand statistics and crowds, nor of schools\\nand guilds and classes and lectures.\\nThe master achievement of the minister\\nis to form character and to make men.\\nThe chief question, therefore, to con-\\nsider about a minister s work is: What\\nkind of men has he made", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "20 Church Folks\\nAnd one, at least, of the most decisive\\nquestions by which the members of a\\ncongregation can be judged is: What\\nhave they made of their minister By\\nthat one does not mean what salary they\\nmay give him nor how agreeable they\\nmay be to him, but how far he has be-\\ncome a man and risen to his height in\\nthe atmosphere of his congregation.\\nSome congregations have ruined minis-\\nters by harassing them till they lost\\nheart and self-control, and became pee-\\nvish and ill-tempered. Some congrega-\\ntions, again, have ruined ministers by\\nso humoring and petting them that they\\ncould endure no contradiction, and be-\\ncame childish. That congregation has\\ndone its duty most effectively which has\\ncreated an atmosphere so genial, and\\nyet so bracing, that every good in its\\nminister has been fostered and every-\\nthing petty killed.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 2 1\\nWhat the Congregation Must Do.\\nA young minister is a charge com-\\nmitted to a congregation, and its first\\nduty is patience, especially with his\\npreaching. One extremely young, and,\\nwhat is not the same thing, very imma-\\nture, minister began life as assistant in\\na city church famous for its activity and\\nearnestness. His work was to visit sick\\npeople and to attend to details, and,\\nwisely, he was seldom asked to preach.\\nWhen he did preach his sermon was\\na very boyish performance indeed\\nshallow, rhetorical, unpractical and\\nhe had sense enough to be ashamed. By\\nand by he was appointed, for accidental\\nand personal reasons, to a church of his\\nown in a remote country district. Be-\\nfore he left the big city church, one of\\nthe elders called to bid him farewell.\\nHe said he felt that it was only right\\nto point out where the assistant had\\nsucceeded and where he had failed.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "22 Church Folks\\nYou have been very attentive to the\\ninvalids and er the children, and I\\nmay say without flattery that you have\\nbeen well liked, but you know that God\\nhas not given you the power of public\\nspeech. I am afraid you will never\\nbe able to preach. Still, you may have\\nmuch usefulness and blessing as a pas-\\ntor.\\nIt was not a cheering prospect to\\nwait on old ladies and attend Sunday-\\nschool treats, but the lad thanked the\\ncandid elder with a sinking heart, and\\nwent to his new work.\\nWhat One Man Did for His\\nMinister.\\nHis first experiences in the new\\nparish seemed to confirm the pessimistic\\nprophecy. One day he forgot every-\\nthing in the middle of his sermon;\\nanother day, in expounding an epistle\\nof Saint Paul, he had got his thoughts", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 23\\ninto such a tangled skein that he had\\nto begin again and repeat half his ex-\\nposition. On that occasion the young\\nminister was so utterly disheartened\\nthat he formed a hasty resolution in the\\npulpit to retire, and went into the\\nvestry in the lowest spirits. There an\\nold Highland elder was awaiting him\\nto take him by the hand and to thank\\nhim for an eloquent discourse.\\nIt is wonderful/ he said in his\\nsoft, .kindly accent, that you are\\npreaching so well, and you so young,\\nand I am wanting to say that if you\\never forget a head of your discourse,\\nyou are not to be putting yourself about.\\nYou will just give out a Psalm and be\\ntaking a rest, and maybe it will be\\ncoming back to you. We all have plenty\\nof time, and we all will be liking you\\nvery much. The people are saying\\nwhat a good preacher you are going to\\nbe soon, and they are already very\\nproud of you.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "24 Church Folks\\nIText Sunday the minister entered\\nthe pulpit with a confident heart, and\\nwas sustained by the buoyant atmos-\\nphere of friendliness; and as a conse-\\nquence he did not hesitate nor forget,\\nnor has he required since that day to\\nbegin again. Little wonder that his\\nheart goes back from a city to that\\nHighland parish with affection and\\ngratitude had it not been for the char-\\nity of his first people he would not now\\nbe in the ministry.\\nA Congregation Must Stand by its\\nMinister.\\nThe members of a congregation are\\nbound to stand by their minister in the\\nouter world. He is their own, and they\\nought to be jealous of his good name.\\nIf he savs or does what is less than\\nright, let them tell him face to face in\\nall tenderness and love; but if strang-\\ners criticise him, let his people defend", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 25\\nand praise. If a man s own household\\nis loyal, then he is not cast down by the\\nhostility of the man on the street.\\nWhen it turns against him he loses\\nheart. Nothing will teach a proper man\\nto judge himself more severely or to\\nrealize his faults more distinctly than\\nthe discovery that his critics in private\\nare his advocates in public.\\nIt happened once that a leading\\nmember of a congregation considered\\nit his duty to remonstrate with his\\nminister, to whom he was deeply at-\\ntached, because the minister s preach-\\ning had grown hard and unspiritual.\\nThey were personal friends, and the\\nconversation was conducted with per-\\nfect taste and temper but the minister\\ndid feel a little sore afterwards, which\\nwas rather foolish, and he worried him-\\nself with the idea that his friends and\\nhis congregation were turning against\\nhim. A few days afterward a brother\\nminister called upon him, and as they", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "26 Church Folks\\ntalked of one thing and another his\\nvisitor congratulated him on the attach-\\nment of his people. Why, last night\\nat a dinner-table old Doctor Sardine\\nwas carping at your preaching calling\\nyou a rationalist, and so forth when\\nMr. Cochrane spoke out at once and\\ntold the old gentleman that he did not\\nknow what he was talking about. i I go\\nto his church/ said your man, and I\\nknow that I can never repay my minis-\\nter all that he has done for me and\\nmine/ It was straight talk, and pro-\\nduced an immense impression, and one\\nminister envied you such a friend.\\nNothing Helps a Minister Like\\nConfidence.\\nWhile his friend had told him his\\nfaults boldly, man to man, and he had\\ntaken private offence, like a foolish\\nchild, that friend had been guarding\\nhis reputation with generous enthusi-", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 27\\nasm, and at the thought thereof he was\\nmoved to repentance. The judgment\\nof his friend received a new weight,\\nbeing sanctioned by such pledges of\\nsincerity and magnanimity. So it came\\nto pass in the end that the minister\\nreconsidered his position and realized\\nthat he had fallen into extremes. Noth-\\ning has a more wholesome effect on a\\nhigh-spirited man than the sense that\\na number of people trust him and guard\\nhim, and are ready to stand or fall with\\nhim. This confidence inspires him\\nwith humility, tones down his pride,\\nteaches him caution, and lavs on him\\nthe responsibility of carrying himself\\nwell in the conflict of life.\\nA wise congregation will also respond\\nto the highest which the minister gives,\\nand will discriminate between the sec-\\nond-rate and first-rate product of his\\nbrain. There is such a thing as a cheap\\nsermon, which may be very popular\\nand showy, with a shallow cleverness.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "28 Church Folks\\nBright men are often tempted to preach\\nsuch sermons because they are easily-\\nthrown off, and do not strain the soul.\\nAnd a congregation is apt to welcome\\nsuch sermons because they demand little\\nattention.\\nCongregations Must Listen with\\ntheir Soites.\\nThere is such a thing as a dear ser-\\nmon, which has cost a man agony of\\nbrain and heart a sermon charged\\nwith thought and passion. Such ser-\\nmons are not lightly prepared nor can\\nthey be lightly heard. As the preacher\\nhas put his soul into his work, so the\\npeople must put their souls into the\\nhearing. Of course, a strong man will\\nnot cease to put forth his hardest,\\nchoicest work, although no one approves,\\nand he will not fall beneath his best in\\nany circumstances; but the desire for\\ncheap and popular preaching puts a", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 29\\nheavy strain on the resolution of an\\nordinary minister until he is sometimes\\ntempted to please the foolish people in\\nhis congregation, and to lighten his own\\nburden by giving them less than his\\nbest. And it is the saddest of all ironies\\nin church life when a man succeeds, as\\nfar as outside appearances go, who has\\nburied his talents, and a congregation\\nis happy and apparently satisfied which\\nhas wasted its minister.\\nIf a minister be inspired by high\\nideals and has an iron will, he will\\nfulfil himself in spite of the most de-\\nbilitating circumstances, and although\\nhis people clamor for cheap cleverness,\\nhe will insist on feeding them with the\\nfinest of the wheat. Many worthy men,\\nhowever, are neither particularly strong\\nnor spiritual, and if their people have\\nno appetite for strong meat, they will\\nsatisfy them with the poorest of all\\nclaptrap the claptrap of religion. It\\nmay be evangelistic verbiage or social", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "30 Church Folks\\nrant or rationalistic cant, but it is the\\nby-product of the man s mind, and\\nworse than worthless to the members\\nof his church.\\nThe Minister Must Lead His\\nPeople.\\nThe minister should be given to\\nunderstand that his congregation ex-\\npects to share in the ripest knowledge\\nhe possesses, and will appreciate his\\nmost careful thinking. When he rises\\nto his height on any occasion and\\npreaches a great sermon it does not\\nmatter whether every person has under-\\nstood every word or some of them only\\nabout one-half. He ought to be told\\nthat all the members of his church are\\nproud of him and thank God for him,\\nand that even if he were beyond them,\\nthis was not because of obscurity, but\\nbecause of elevation, and that they are\\npleased to have a minister who lives at", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 3 1\\nsuch a level. He must not come down\\nto them, but they must strive to rise to\\nhim. It is a miserable business for\\na preacher to repeat the commonplaces\\nof his people in a showy form so that\\nthe man in the street goes home con-\\ngratulating himself because he has\\nheard his paltry ideas tricked out in\\na showy dress. It is the function of the\\nprophet to lead his flock onward, even\\nthough the march be sometimes through\\nthe wilderness, and they ought to follow\\nclose behind him and tell him that they\\nare there, and that thev will not cease\\nto follow till he has brought them into\\nthe fulness of the Land of Promise.\\nUnder those conditions a man will feel\\nbound to read the best books and to\\nthink out every subject to its very\\nheart he will grudge no labor of brain,\\nno emotion of soul, to meet the expecta-\\ntion of a thoughtful, broad-minded\\npeople, and if he come at last to be\\na leader of thought whose words fly far", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "32 Church Folks\\nand wide, then to this congregation will\\nthe credit be due who believed in him\\nand demanded great things of him and\\nmade more of him than he, in his most\\nambitious moment, could have imag-\\nined.\\nMinisters !Need Constant Encour-\\nagement.\\nIt is also the duty of the members of\\na congregation to encourage their minis-\\nter, and they would take more trouble\\nto do so if they only knew how much\\nhe needed their encouragement, and how\\nmuch he would thrive upon it. They\\nmust have a strong imagination in order\\nto understand the trials of his lot, which\\nare different from those of every other\\nworker, because he has to work by faith\\nand not bv sight. As he sits in his\\nstudy and at midday has not written\\na line because his thoughts would not\\nflow, or when he burns four hours work", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 3 3\\nbecause it is worthless, the minister\\nlooks out and envies a workman who,\\nacross the street, has completed in the\\nsame time so many feet of brickwork\\nwhich is as good as it could be, and will\\nlast for many a year. As he visits the\\nsick of his flock, anxiously looking for\\nsome sign that his words of comfort and\\nadvice have produced their due effect,\\nhe wishes he were a physician, who can\\nsee the good he does and has his quick\\nreward in lives saved from death in\\nbodies relieved from pain. It some-\\ntimes seems to the minister as if his\\nwords from week to week were wasted\\nso much water poured on the desert.\\nFrom the very nature of the case he\\ncannot discover the fruit of his minis-\\ntry, and therefore others should tell him\\nthat he has not labored in vain. People\\nare quick enough to criticise a sermon\\nor to dwell upon the fact that the attend-\\nance has been a little scantier of late,\\nbut is there nothing else they could", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "34\\nChurch Folks\\nmention to the pastor Has he never\\nthrown light on some difficult passage\\nof Scripture nor stimulated the con-\\nscience to the sense of some new duty\\nnor sustained the heart in some sorrow\\nof life Why should he be left in igno-\\nrance who waits so wistfully for news\\nwhich does not come and which would\\nmean so much?\\nO^e Letter Which Inspired a\\nSermon\\nLet me take you to the interior of\\na study where the minister is toiling\\nwith laboring oar and despairs of ever\\nreaching land. The forenoon mail ar-\\nrives and four letters are laid upon his\\ntable: one is uninteresting, one is tire-\\nsome, one is vexatious, and the dis-\\nheartened man opens the fourth letter\\nwith a sigh. Another complaint from\\nsome querulous person; another detail\\nlaid on a weary man What is this", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 35\\nMy Dear Pastor For some time I have\\nwished to write and tell you what a help you\\nhave been to those who are very dear to me.\\nAgain and again my husband has been cheered\\nand encouraged in his fight to do what is right\\nin business by your brave words. He told me\\none Sunday night that nothing had done so\\nmuch to keep him straight as your sermons.\\nYou know that Jack made us rather anxious\\nfor some time because he seemed careless and\\nindifferent to home. Well, he has quite changed\\nof late, and is so attentive to me and nice with\\nhis father. And on my birthday he brought\\nme such a lovely present, for which he must\\nhave been saving during months. When I\\ntold him how grateful I was he only said It\\nwas that sermon on sons and mothers did it.\\nAnd now last Sunday your sermon on care\\nseemed to be written for me, for I have so little\\nfaith and am so anxious. So I must tell you\\nthat you have inspired the life of one house-\\nhold and that we bless God for you.\\nYours most gratefully,\\nMay Harrison.\\nIt may not seem a long letter nor one\\ndifficult to understand, but the minister\\nwas not satisfied till he had read it six\\ntimes. And although it may not seem\\na learned letter, it shed such a flood of\\nlight on the text that the minister s pen", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "36 Church Folks\\nflew. He locked that letter up in his\\ndesk, but found that he had forgotten\\na sentence, so it was more convenient\\nto carry it in his pocket. On Sunday he\\njudged it necessary to read that letter\\nbefore going to church, and he had a\\nlast peep at it in the vestry. And the\\nminister preached that morning with\\nsuch power and hope that even the\\ngrumblers were satisfied, and the con-\\ngregation went home on wings.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "III.\\nThe Candy-Pull System in the\\nChurch.\\nAs I write, the appeal of a Young\\nMen s Christian Association to its mem-\\nbers lies on the table before me, and I\\ncopy it verbatim:\\nDo Not Forget\\nThe next Social\\nThe next Candy-pull\\nThe next Entertainment\\nThe next Song Service\\nThe next Gospel Meeting\\nThe next Meeting of the Debating Club\\nThe next Chicken-pie Dinner\\nThe next date when you ought to make the\\nsecretary happy with your cash/\\nThis remarkable list of operations,\\ncombining evangelistic zeal, creature", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "3 8 Church Folks\\ncomforts, and business shrewdness, re-\\nquires no commentary: the items give\\nus a convincing illustration of an up-\\nto-date religious institution a veritable\\nhustler of a T. M. C. A.\\nPerhaps one department of the work\\nrequires a word of explanation; there\\nmay be some persons who have given\\nconsiderable attention to Christian\\nagencies, and yet whose researches may\\nnot have come across a candy-pull.\\nThis agency, if that be the correct word,\\nis a party of young men and women\\nwho meet for the purpose of pulling\\ncandy, and, in the case of the co-\\noperation of sexes, is said to be a very\\nengaging employment. It may be\\nthat candy-pulling on the part of a\\nT. M. C A. is confined to one sex, and\\nis therefore shorn of half its attraction,\\nbut one clings to the idea that in these\\ndays of pleasant religious evenings\\nthe young men would not be left to their\\nown company.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 39\\nConducting a Church on Modern\\nLines.\\nThe Christian church and a\\nY. M. C. A. are, of course, very differ-\\nent institutions, and the latter is free\\nfrom any traditions of austere dignity;\\nbut one is not surprised to find that the\\nchurch has also been touched with the\\nsocial spirit and is also doing her best to\\nmake religion entertaining. One enters\\nwhat is called a place of worship and\\nimagines that he is in a drawing-room.\\nThe floor has a thick carpet, there are\\nrows of theatre chairs, a huge organ fills\\nthe eye, a large bouquet of flowers\\nmarks the minister s place people come\\nin with a jaunty air and salute one\\nanother cheerily; hardly one bends his\\nhead in prayer there is a hum of gossip\\nthrough the building.\\nA man disentangles himself from\\na conversation and bustles up to the\\nplatform without clerical robes of any", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "40 Church Folks\\nkind, as likely as not in layman s dress.\\nA quartette advances, and, facing the\\naudience, sings an anthem to the con-\\ngregation, which does not rise, and later\\nthey sing another anthem, also to the\\ncongregation. There is one prayer, and\\none reading from Holy Scripture, and\\na sermon which is brief and bright.\\nAmong other intimations the minister\\nurges attendance at the Easter supper,\\nwhen, as is mentioned in a paper in the\\npews, there will be oysters and meat\\nturkey, I think and ice-cream. This\\nmeal is to be served in the church\\nparlor.\\nAs SOON AS THE BENEDICTION IS SAID.\\n!NTo sooner has the benediction been\\npronounced, which has some original\\nfeature introduced, than the congrega-\\ntion hurries to the door; but although\\nno one can explain how it is managed,\\nthe minister is alreadv there shaking", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 4 1\\nhands, introducing people, getting off\\ngood things/ and generally making\\nthings hum. One person congratu-\\nlates him on his talk new name for\\na sermon and another says it was\\nfine.\\nEfforts have been made in England\\nalso to make church life really popular,\\nand, in one town known to the writer,\\nwith some success of its own kind. One\\nchurch secured a new set of communion\\nplate by the popular device of a dance\\nvarious congregations gave private\\ntheatricals, and one enterprising body\\nhad stage property of its own. Bible\\nclasses celebrated the conclusion of\\ntheir session by a supper on Good Fri-\\ndays there were excursions into the\\ncountry, accompanied by a military\\nband, and a considerable portion of the\\ncongregational income was derived from\\nsocial treats of various kinds. This\\nparticular town is only an illustration\\nof the genial spirit spreading through-", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "42 Church Folks\\nout the church in England. One min-\\nister uses a magic lantern to give force\\nto his sermon another has added a tav-\\nern to his church equipment; a third\\ntakes up the latest murder or scandal;\\na fourth has a service of song; a fifth\\ndepends on a gypsy or an ex-pugilist.\\nIf this goes on, the church will soon\\nembrace a theatre and other attractions\\nwhich will draw young people and pre-\\nvent old people from wearying in the\\nworship of God.\\nIs the New Departure an Improve-\\nment\\nPerhaps it may be the perversity of\\nhuman nature which is apt to cavil at\\nnew things and hanker after the good\\nold times which were not always good,\\nby any means but one is not much\\nenamored with the new departure nor at\\nall convinced that what may be called\\nfor brief the Candy-pull system is any", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 43\\nimprovement on the past. After a slight\\nexperience of smart preachers and\\nchurch parlors and ice-cream suppers\\nand picnics, one remembers with new\\nrespect and keen appreciation the min-\\nister of former days, with his seemly\\ndress, his dignified manner, his sense\\nof responsibility, who came from the\\nsecret place of Divine fellowship, and\\nspoke as one carrying the message of\\nthe Eternal. He mav not have been so\\nfussy in the aisles as his successor nor\\nso clever at games nor able to make so\\nfetching a speech on Love, Courtship,\\nand Marriage.\\nWas the Old-Time Clergyman too\\nFormal\\nThe members of his congregation\\nmay not have called him a bright\\nman nor said he was great fun nor\\nasked him so often to tea-parties, and it\\nmay be granted that he erred on the", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "44 Church Folks\\nside of formality; but, on the other\\nhand, they spoke of him as a man of\\nGod and a good man/ and in the\\nstraits of life and in anxiety of con-\\nscience they sent for him. They may\\nnot have liked him so well as the modern\\nman, but they respected and trusted\\nhim, which is far more important.\\nOne is also struck by the change in\\nthe whole environment of worship, and\\nthere may be a difference of opinion\\nwhether it has been for the better or\\nthe worse. The church of our fathers\\nwas not well lighted nor scientifically\\nventilated nor elaborately cushioned,\\nand all there could be seen of carpet\\nwas on the pulpit stairs. The church\\nof to-day is amazingly decorated, and\\nbright with innumerable electric lights.\\nCongregations Meet to Listen to\\nthe Choir.\\nThe service of the past was musically\\nimperfect and was generally too long.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 45\\nTo-day the tenor in the choir is dis-\\nmissed if his voice shows signs of wear,\\nand the people sit in judgment on how\\nthe anthem has been attacked or\\nrendered perhaps it was Holy,\\nHoly, Holy, Lord God Almighty and\\nthere is a notice in the vestry (or minis-\\nter s parlor) that the Scripture lesson\\nmust not exceed fifteen verses ten is\\npreferred and the prayers must not\\nencroach on the music, and the sermon,\\nwhatever be its subject, even though it\\nbe the Judgment Day, must be inter-\\nesting. In the former time a congrega-\\ntion used to speak of a sermon as\\nedifying or searching or com-\\nforting. ISTow it declares that the\\npreacher was in great form, or it\\ncomplains that he was off color.\\nThere are, no doubt, many points in\\nw T hich the congregation of the present\\nhas advanced on the congregation of the\\npast, but it has not been all gain, for\\nthe chief note in the worship of the", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "46 Church Folks\\nformer generation was reverence\\npeople met in the presence of the\\nEternal, before whom every man is less\\nthan nothing. And the chief note of\\ntheir children, who meet to listen to a\\nchoir and a clever platform speaker, is\\nself-complacency.\\nFear of God Seems to Have\\nDeparted.\\nIt ought to be granted that one reason\\nfor this change in the spirit of con-\\ngregational life is a reaction from\\nindividualism and a new conception of\\nthe fellowship of the Christian church.\\nA religious person no longer thinks of\\nhimself as a solitary unit, isolated from\\nevery other human being in the world,\\nand whose chief business in life is to\\nsave his own soul. He has realized that\\nhis life is bound up with that of his\\nneighbors, and that he is a member of\\na society which extends over all the", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 47\\nworld; that he must not deny his\\nhumanity, and that in saving others he\\nis also saving himself. The world is\\nno longer a wilderness through which\\nhe marches a pilgrim and stranger, but\\nhis birthplace, to which he owes a duty,\\nand religion is not so much an austere\\ndevotion to God as it is a useful, chari-\\ntable life.\\nThe centre of thought has, in fact,\\nshifted from eternity to time, from the\\nworship of God to the service of men.\\nThe one idea was enshrined in a Puri-\\ntan meeting, where each man waited in\\nwistful expectation for a sign of favor\\nfrom the Almighty, or in the cathedral\\nwhere the multitude bowed in silent\\nadoration at the lifting of the Host.\\nThe other idea is visible in the building,\\nmore concert-room than church, where\\na number of good people meet in high\\nspirits and in kindly fellowship to move\\none another to good works, and to sing\\nhymns. The ancient fear of God seems", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "48 Church Folks\\nto have departed entirely, and with it\\nthe sense of the unseen, which once\\nconstituted the spirit of worship.\\nThe Up-to-Date Church Needs an\\nAnnex.\\nReligion, it is urged with consider-\\nable force, must provide not only for\\nthe soul, but also for the mind and body,\\nso that a Christian will not need to go\\noutside the church for culture or\\namusement. If he want relaxation,\\nentertainments must be provided for\\nhim at his church, so that he need not go\\ninto worldly society; and whatever be\\nhis intellectual taste, it must be met in\\nhis ecclesiastical home. His literary\\nand debating society and drawing-room\\nand concert must be all under one roof,\\nso that the young Christian may be\\nsheltered from temptation.\\nAs this social tendency of the congre-\\ngation is becoming more marked every", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 49\\nyear, and new inventions are being\\nadded, it is vain to urge a return to the\\nsimplicity of the past, when a congre-\\ngation was a body of people who met\\nto worship God and study His will;\\nbut it may be worth while to point to\\ncertain drawbacks in the new develop-\\nment. For one thing, if congregations\\nare to become universal providers/\\nanother kind of minister will be needed.\\nHow the Modern Minister Pre-\\npares Himself.\\nFor this kind of institution a teacher\\nto expound the Bible or a pastor to\\ntrain the character of his people is\\nhardly needed, and certainly he would\\nnot be appreciated. The chief requisite\\ndemanded is a sharp man, with the\\ngifts of an impresario, a commercial\\ntraveller, and an auctioneer combined,\\nwith the slightest flavor of a peripatetic\\nevangelist. Instead of a study lined", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "50 Church Folks\\nwith books of grave divinity and classi-\\ncal literature, let him have an office\\nwith pigeon-holes for his programmes\\nand endless correspondence; cupboards\\nfor huge books, with cuttings from\\nnewspapers and reports of other organ-\\nizations; a telephone ever tingling, and\\na set of handbooks How to Make\\na Sermon in Thirty Minutes, or One\\nThousand Eacv Anecdotes from the\\nMission Field.\\nHere sits an alert, vivacious, inven-\\ntive manager, with his female stenog-\\nrapher at a side table, turning over one\\nhuge book to discover who is next in\\norder of time for visitation, and another\\nfor details of families, or hastily exam-\\nining filed speeches of public men on\\nsome subject to be taken on Sunday.\\nFrom morning to night he toils, tele-\\nphoning, telegraphing, dictating, com-\\npiling, hurrying around, conducting\\nsocials or bright evenings, giving\\ntalks, holding receptions, an un-", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 5 1\\nwearied, adroit, persevering man. No\\none can help admiring his versatility\\nand honesty of intention; but if he is\\nto be the type of the minister of the\\nfuture, then he will supersede and ex-\\nclude a better man.\\nShould the Pulpit be Given to\\nManageks\\nThere are men who possess every\\nbecoming gift of learning and insight\\nand devotion and charity who are abso-\\nlutely incapable of running a church\\non modern lines. They could guide\\na soul in spiritual peril, but they have\\nno talent for amusing young people;\\nthey can declare the Everlasting Gospel\\nof the Divine Sacrifice, but they have\\nno turn for machinery; they can ex-\\npound the principles of righteousness,\\nbut they refuse to meddle with a recent\\nstrike of motormen.\\nAs regards the gain of the new depart-", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "52 Church Folks\\nure, is it certain that the socializing of\\nthe Church will make her creed and life\\nattractive If it come to be a competi-\\ntion between the amusements of the\\nChurch (or her feasts) and the amuse-\\nments of the world (and its feasts), is\\nthere any sane person who thinks that\\nthe Church can win Like Csesar, the\\nworld offers her magnificent shows the\\nChurch, like Christ, presents the vic-\\ntorious Cross.\\nThe Church Must K ot Leave Her\\nHigh Place.\\nWhy should the Church leave her\\nhigh place and come down into the\\narena, where she will be put to shame\\nDo men come to church for petty pleas-\\nures fit only for children or for the\\nsatisfaction of their souls and the con-\\nfirmation of their faith Would Chris-\\ntianity have begun to exist if the\\nApostles had been pleasing preachers", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "Church Folks\\n53\\nand bright men and had given them-\\nselves to socials and sales and\\ntalks The Church triumphed by\\nher faith, her holiness, her courage, and\\nby these high virtues she must stand in\\nthis age also. She is the witness to\\nimmortality, the spiritual home of\\nsouls, the servant of the poor, the pro-\\ntector of the friendless and if she sinks\\ninto a place of second-rate entertain-\\nment, then it were better that her\\nhistory should close, for without her\\nspiritual visions and austere ideals the\\nChurch is not worth preserving.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "IV.\\nThe Mutineer in the Church.\\nIt takes all kinds of people to make\\na world, and it takes almost as many\\nkinds to make a congregation, but it is\\nnot necessary for congregational com-\\npleteness to possess a mutineer. By a\\nmutineer one means a person we can\\neasily identify, and at whose hands\\nmost congregations have sometimes\\nsuffered. He is not to be confounded\\nwith a Christian of old-fashioned\\nopinions, who is occasionally disturbed\\nby a sermon on The Fatherhood of\\nGod/ and will come to the minister s\\nstudy to explain that he has always\\nbelieved God to be a judge. This man", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 55\\nis perfectly honest, and ought to be\\ntreated with all consideration, because\\nhe is simply loyal to his hereditary\\nfaith, and all the time would like to\\nreceive the new gospel. Let him have\\na warm corner in the room, and a com-\\nfortable seat, and free opportunity to\\nrun through as many texts as he wishes,\\nand a candid hearing unto the hour of\\nmidnight. He is open to conviction,\\nand even if he leave unconvinced, he\\nwill not go to set fire to the congrega-\\ntion. Not he but he will explain every-\\nwhere that the minister is a faithful\\nBible student and a patient pastor, and\\nthat it is a privilege and a responsibility\\nto sit in his church.\\nDo ISTot Confound Him with the\\nRestless Person.\\nNor must the word be applied to one\\nof those restless people who are ever\\ndetecting some fault in affairs and who", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "56 Church Folks\\nweary every person with random sug-\\ngestions. One week he writes that a\\nwoman was turned away from the\\nchurch prayer-meeting because the hall\\nwas full the minister is always\\namused with this mythical person and\\nwishes he could see her in the flesh\\nand he suggests that the weekday ser-\\nvice should be held in the church. He\\nknows a hundred people who would be\\nwilling to come and this also pleases\\nthe minister very much, because the\\ngood man hardly ever attends himself.\\nNext week some mysterious person\\ninforms this man that he has caught\\ncold through the draught from one of\\nthe windows, and our friend writes\\nsixteen pages to advocate window cur-\\ntains, which would make St. Peter s\\nitself hideous and worship impossible\\nfor all self-respecting people. A month\\nlater this same man is convinced that\\nthe whole congregation is a rope of\\nsand, and ought to be bound up by a", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "Church Folks $y\\ngeneral visitation on the part of the\\noffice bearers, for which he is good\\nenough to sketch a plan; and every\\nother week he will make a new sugges-\\ntion in a voluminous letter, till his\\nbrethren are apt to say strong words\\nabout his meddlesomeness.\\nTeeat the Restless Person with\\nRespect.\\nHis brethren ought rather to possess\\ntheir souls in patience and treat the\\nworthy man kindly, for there is not\\na grain of mischief in him, nor is there\\na better-hearted man in the whole con-\\ngregation. He will be quite pleased if\\nhe gets a civil answer, and I would\\nsuggest this form for such occasions\\nDear Mr. Jump I have received your\\ninteresting letter and note your suggestion\\nabout the curtains. The matter is one which\\nwill require careful consideration, and I hasten\\nto assure you that it is encouraging to the\\nminister and workers of the church to find", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "58 Church Folks\\nthat the welfare of our church in every respect\\nlies so near your heart. With very warm re-\\ngard, believe me,\\nYours faithfully,\\nJob Holdfast, Pastor.\\nMr. Jump will be quite satisfied with\\nthis letter, and in twenty-four hours\\nwill have forgotten that he ever pro-\\nposed curtains. It will be worth while\\nfor a congregation to engage, say, one\\nJump, just to note defects and to .keep\\nthings moving. Two Jumps might be\\ntoo much for the congregation, and they\\nhad better dispose of the second.\\nThe Over-Sensitive Church\\nMember.\\nThere is another person who ought\\nnot to be considered a mutineer, al-\\nthough he is very wrong-headed and\\nmay become a real nuisance. He is the\\nman who is apt to be offended and to\\nbe hurt, as he calls it, because some\\none passed him at the church door", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 59\\nwithout speaking, or said things\\nabout him he knows not what behind\\nhis back, or objected to some plan which\\nhe proposed, or refused to do something\\nhe asked. Having worried his wife\\nabout the matter, and talked himself\\ninto a fever of wounded vanity, he gives\\neverybody to understand that he has\\na grievance, and assumes the air of a\\nmartyr. As a formal protest he may\\neven absent himself from church for\\ntwo Sundays, and will be still further\\nhurt if no one calls to inquire the\\nreason. Of course, he is very provoking,\\nbut there is no malice in the man, and\\nhe ought to be gently treated. It is his\\nmisfortune rather than his fault that\\nhe has no scarf-skin and no protection\\nagainst the inevitable friction of life.\\nA gentle touch and a liberal use of\\nspiritual ointment will cure his wounds\\nor, rather, scratches.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "60 Church Folks\\nHow to Detect, the Genuine\\nMutineer.\\nThe mutineer is of another breed and\\nis an able-bodied miscreant, who will\\nstrike a hard blow whenever he can get\\nan opportunity, and at any person\\nwhom he can reach. His sole desire is\\nto do mischief, and the more pain he\\ngives the better is he pleased. He will\\nwrite insulting letters to the minister,\\ncharging him with every sin from\\nheresy to lying. He will get up a public\\ncontroversy about the affairs of the con-\\ngregation in any newspaper which is\\nfoolish enough to insert his letters. He\\nwill attack the most reasonable pro-\\nposals of the office bearers, and impute\\nto them the worst motives. He will move\\nthrough the congregation as an incen-\\ndiarv, and set fire to every inflammable\\nperson. When he is in his glory he will\\nthreaten proceedings in the church\\ncourts or in the civil courts; and al-", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 6 1\\nthough he will never carry them out,\\nbeing a coward as well as a bully, he\\nwill take the preliminary steps, which\\ncause talk and alarm. It will also be\\npart of his role to pose as a straight-\\nforward and honest man of unflinching\\nrectitude and spiritual aims. What he\\ndoes will always be under constraint of\\nconscience, and he will summon himself\\nand his opponents with much rhetorical\\neffect before the bar of eternal justice.\\nHe is so big and blatant, and good\\npeople are so charitable and easily\\ncowed, that they often take this man at\\nhis own value and come to terms with\\nhim.\\nHe Should Receive Little Con-\\nsideration.\\nAs a matter of fact, he is an utter\\nhumbug from every point of view, and\\nought to receive no mercy. Neither his\\nopinions nor his feelings nor his com-\\nplaints nor his threatening^ should", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "62\\nChurch Folks\\nreceive one moment s consideration.\\nHis first challenge should be accepted\\nas a declaration of war, and the war\\nhad better be without quarter; and it\\nis astonishing how soon this brigand\\ncan be brought to his senses and to\\nabject submission.\\nShould he be established in a con-\\ngregation and have shown his hand, the\\nwisest plan is to give him notice to quit.\\nIt is not usual to ask any member to\\nleave a church, and very unusual if he\\nhappen to be a man of substance and\\nposition, as this fellow often is; but\\ncongregations are much too anxious to\\nkeep every person, and much too slow\\nto recognize that some men s absence is\\nmore profitable than their presence.\\nTheir presence simply means turmoil\\nand heartburnings, their absence peace\\nand prosperity; their presence soon\\ndrives many quiet folk away; their\\nabsence would remove a stumbling-\\nblock.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 63\\nHis Influence is Always Detri-\\nmental.\\nShould he apply for admission to\\na church where his character is known,\\nthen he should be plainly refused. Why\\nshould any minister, if it depend on\\nhim, receive a man who has half -broken\\nanother minister s heart Why should\\na congregation give house room to a\\nman who has reduced the affairs of an-\\nother to ruin The chances are he has\\nleft like an army which has eaten up\\none country and now must go to devas-\\ntate another. If there be any power\\nin a congregation that can do it, let the\\ndoor be slammed in this man s face, and\\nas he wanders about churchless perhaps\\nhe may learn wisdom.\\nShould any one say that we are treat-\\ning the mutineer unkindly and un-\\nChristianly, then he is carried away by\\nan excess of charity and is not facing\\nthe facts. To deal kindly with a muti-", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "64 Church Folks\\nneer is to be cruel to the minister and\\nthe congregation. Although he be only\\na single individual, there is no end to\\nthe mischief which this man can do.\\nFor one thing, he will gravely affect\\nthe preacher, and that in ways which\\nthe congregation can hardly imagine.\\nXo preacher who is worth the name\\nwrites his sermons without reference\\nto his congregation, as if he were liv-\\ning in another planet and were dealing\\nonly with the ideas of the study. As\\nhe sits at the table he is really in the\\npulpit and the congregation in the\\npews; he speaks to them, and they re-\\nspond; he sees one head lifted and\\nanother cast down, one rebuked and\\nanother comforted, till the books of the\\nstudy disappear and the room is full of\\nhuman feeling. It is in this atmosphere\\nthat the preacher will do his best work\\nand most perfectly fulfil his mission.\\nSuppose, therefore, that at the end of\\na pew and -that is where he is certain", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 65\\nto be, in some prominent place this\\nrebel is sitting, pugnacious, insolent,\\nand defiant: is he not apt to be an\\ninfluence in the sermon?\\nEffect of His Presence in the\\nChurch.\\nNo doubt there are men with such\\nmental self-control and superb indiffer-\\nence to circumstances that they will\\nignore his existence. These are men\\nof the great order, and one cannot\\nexpect many in the ministry or in any\\nprofession. For them there are no\\nrules, and for them no hindrances they\\nare invulnerable and irresistible. Upon\\nordinary men the mutineer has an irri-\\ntating and deflecting power, so that\\na preacher, consciously or unconsciously,\\nis ever taking him into account, and the\\nsermon s course is to a certain extent\\nregulated by this man s existence. If\\nthe minister be a gentle and fearful", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "66\\nChurch Folks\\nman, he is apt to be over-considerate,\\nand will omit things which he ought\\nto have said lest he should give offence.\\nInstead of the sermon s pursuing its\\nstraight way and reaching its destina-\\ntion with as little loss of distance as\\npossible, it will be timid and subdued\\nin style. The preacher will be continu-\\nally qualifying in order not to be caught\\nby this critic, or he will be continually\\ndeferring lest he should give offence to\\nthis mighty man. People will have\\na vague sense of weakness, but they may\\nnever guess the cause.\\nThe Preacher s Way of Dealing\\nwith Him.\\nSuppose, however, the preacher be\\na strong and determined man, but not\\none of the larger minds and the broader\\nvision, then the mutineer will affect\\nhim after another fashion. From the\\nbeginning of the sermon the preacher", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 67\\nwill set himself to deal with this man\\nand to bring him to his senses. His\\ncharacter and his actions will be de-\\nscribed and denounced and satirized\\nand threatened. He will be pelted with\\nthe judgments of Holy Scripture; its\\ncommandments will be laid to his back\\nlike a lash the invitations of the Gospel\\nwill be denied him, and the historical\\nrascals of the Bible will be suggested\\nas his photograph. Unto any one who\\nunderstands the allusion it will seem\\nthat this man is being hardly dealt\\nwith but to any one who thinks a little\\ndeeper it will be seen that the preacher\\nis the victim. The preacher has grown\\nsour and vindictive the sermon has lost\\nits grace and tenderness; and I know\\nnot which is the greater calamity: a\\npreacher without magnanimity or a ser-\\nmon without nobility.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "68 Church Folks\\nHe is a Disturbing Factor Every-\\nwhere.\\nRemove this man from his place in\\nthat church and the minister will give\\nhimself without disturbance to deal\\nboth with saints and sinners in the love\\nof God.\\nThe mutineer will also distinguish\\nhimself in arresting the activity of the\\nchurch both in work and giving. Should\\nhe have a place, say, in the Sunday-\\nschool, he will quarrel with the superin-\\ntendent and everv one of the teachers\\nin turn till he has the school to himself,\\nand then he will lament the decay of\\nChristian sacrifice in the spirit. If\\nhe be appointed treasurer of a fund\\nunder the idea that this will give him\\nsomething to do, he will be such an\\noffence that no one will subscribe; and\\nif he be not treasurer, he will declare\\neverywhere that the fund does more\\nmischief than good, and that those", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 69\\ndesiring the welfare of the church\\nshould not subscribe.\\nAnd besides all these mischievous\\nachievements, he will poison the life of\\nthe church so that, instead of being\\ngracious and harmonious, it will become\\nbitter and quarrelsome. If there be\\na dispute in the church, this man will\\nfoment it; and if it be possible to set\\ntwo people by the ears, he will do it.\\nWhen there is an honest difference of\\nopinion he will see that it be turned\\ninto a feud; and if a new proposal be\\nput before the people, he will get up\\nan acrimonious debate.\\nEffectual, Methods of Tkeatiistg\\nHim.\\nPerhaps the most effectual system\\nwith such a man is not scolding and\\nstorming, but a policy of isolation. As\\nnature makes a cyst and encloses any\\nstrange material so that it be kept sepa-", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "jo Church Folks\\nrate from the body, let this man be\\nimprisoned in a place by himself. If\\nhe should offer any remark upon church\\naffairs, let the other person answer on\\nthe state of the weather; and if he\\ncriticise a sermon, say that he is sorry\\nto hear of his dyspepsia. If he rise to\\nspeak at a church meeting, let the\\nsilence be such as may be felt, and after\\nhe has spoken let the chairman call for\\nthe next business as if he had never\\nexisted. If he has ever to be spoken to,\\nthe best plan is to treat him as an\\nabsurdity, and play around him with\\nridicule, for this will give much inno-\\ncent amusement to other people, and it\\nis the particular attack which he cannot\\nstand. Between loneliness and laughter\\nhe will depart to another church, and\\nthen let the happy congregation sing\\nthe Te Deum.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "V.\\nShould the Old Clergyman be\\nShot\\nOne day, and perhaps quite sud-\\ndenly, a congregation awakens to the\\nfact that a certain calamity has befallen\\nthe minister which will cripple his\\npower more and more every day and\\nmay also ruin the life of the congrega-\\ntion. It has nothing to do with his\\ncharacter, for he is really a much holier\\nman, and perhaps also a much wiser\\none, than he was twenty years before,\\nand certainly he commits fewer mis-\\ntakes in word and deed than in the days\\nof his youth. \u00c2\u00a3Tor does it concern his\\npastoral work for he is more than\\never the counsellor and friend of the", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "J2 Church Folks\\npeople, speaking to them from a richer\\nexperience of life and a larger charity.\\nIt is not right to say that it touches his\\npreaching, for that is likely to be quite\\nas solid and as useful as it ever was.\\nIndeed, he is saying the very things he\\nused to say with much acceptance, and\\nin the way he used to say them long\\nago.\\nNothing is wrong with him, only that\\nhe does not walk so quickly as he used\\nto, that he speaks a little more slowly,\\nand that last week he had to get older\\nspectacles, that he does not always hear\\nwhat is said to him, that his hair is\\npassing from gray to white, that he is\\nfatigued when going up a hill. It has\\nhappened to him just as it happens to\\nother men: the minister is getting old.\\nOld Ministers Impervious to New\\nIdeas.\\nAs soon as they realize the fact and\\nit may be years before they do notice", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 73\\nit the heads of a congregation begin\\nto grow uneasy. Age has its advantages\\nin the office of the ministry, but it has\\nalso very evident disadvantages, and\\nwhen the balance is struck perhaps a\\ncongregation is right in the idea that\\nit is losing, and not gaining, under the\\nministry of an old man. For one thing\\nand it is a very serious one a minis-\\nter after a certain age is almost imper-\\nvious to new ideas. Of course, the\\nexact age will vary with different men,\\nand it is dangerous even to hint at it,\\nsince the reader would always be able\\nto mention exceptions. There are men\\nto whose minds no new idea can find\\naccess at the age of thirty men of\\nhopeless dulness, who will be an incubus\\non a congregation all their days; and\\nthere are men whose minds will be\\nhospitable to the latest ideas at the age\\nof fourscore men of unique mental\\nfreshness and vivacity.\\nWith the average man there comes", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "74 Church Folks\\na time when his mind crystallizes and\\nhis beliefs become absolutely fixed. He\\nmay not resent the discoveries of\\nyounger men; he certainly will not\\nassimilate them. He may not oppose\\nnew methods of action; he certainly\\nwill not adopt them. His preaching may\\nbe absolutely as good as it was before,\\nbecause it will be the same, without any\\naddition of new thought but it may be\\nbad, comparatively speaking, because\\nit should have much new material and\\nshould also be in much closer touch\\nwith the age.\\nHe Comes to be a Brake Upon the\\nCoach.\\nWith middle age there is apt to set\\nin a suspicion of the rising generation\\nand a keen resentment of its stand-\\npoint, so that the middle-aged man falls\\ninto a critical and pessimistic mood.\\nHe comes to be a brake upon the coach,", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "Church Folks j$\\nand while the brake is a useful thing\\nin its own place, it is a poor substitute\\nfor horses.\\nIf his work be in a city church, it is\\na grave question whether any minister\\ncan now discharge it- with efficiency\\nwho is above sixty years of age. The\\nmultitude of details in a city parish,\\nthe excitement of the life, the severe\\ndemand upon the mind, and the heavy\\nburden of responsibility call for a\\nman in the prime of life, with an alert\\nintellect and an unfailing body. It is\\nlikely as time goes on that men after,\\nsay, twenty years in a city will have\\nto retire and take some quieter sphere\\nin the country. They will be put, as it\\nwere, upon the semi-retired list.\\nBesides, as one cannot fail to no-\\ntice, the average man of middle age\\nin bidding good-by finally to youth\\nhimself also largely isolates himself\\nfrom young people. They may be\\nrespectful to him, and he may be", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "y6 Church Folks\\ninterested in them, but there is now no\\ncommon language and no common sym-\\npathy. They are apt to think him an\\nold fogy (and as a middle-aged man\\nmyself I am inclined to think we do\\ngrow old-fogyish), and he is apt to\\nthink them frivolous. There are few\\nmen who can bridge the gulf between\\ntwo generations and be equally accept-\\nable both to the young and to the old,\\nand the difficulty will increase rather\\nthan diminish. And all this is the\\npenalty of growing old or even passing\\nmiddle age.\\nOne Eminent Clergyman Suggested\\nShooting.\\nWhat, then, is to be done with this\\nunfortunate man And the difficulty\\nhas been felt so acutely that a distin-\\nguished divine of our day who is now\\ndead proposed that a minister who\\nwas past his prime should be taken out", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "Church Folks jj\\n(I presume to some sheltered spot)\\nand shot. His idea was that clerical\\nincumbents should be treated after the\\nsame fashion as worn-out horses. It\\nhas always been dangerous to use irony\\nin England since the days of Swift, for\\nalthough the English people may have\\nevery other quality under the sun, they\\ncertainly have not a quick sense of\\nhumor, and I am not certain that some\\npeople did not think that this eminent\\nperson was serious in his savage sug-\\ngestion. Certainly he expressed the\\nmind of some ungrateful and miserable\\ncongregations, who would be immensely\\nrelieved to get rid of an old servant in\\nthe quickest and cheapest fashion.\\nPerhaps, also, it would be the kindest\\nthing to the minister when he discovers\\nhimself to be an incumbrance on those\\nwhom he loves and who once loved him,\\nto give him by some means the coup de\\ngrace; but there are objections on the\\npart of an interfering law to this sum-", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "78 Church Folks\\nmary method of disposal, and one must\\nabandon the idea of an ecclesiastical\\nknacker s yard.\\nIf He Had Any Sense of Propriety\\nHe Would Die.\\nYou have, then, four courses of ac-\\ntion with this unfortunate man, who, if\\nhe had had any sense of propriety would\\nhave died decently of a short and\\npathetic illness at the age of fifty-five,\\nand the first is that the congregation do\\nnothing and he be allowed to live out\\nhis days in the pulpit. Very likely he\\nused to say about the age of thirty that\\nhe would never continue in the ministry\\nafter his leaf had become yellow; that\\nhe wondered how old men could not see\\nthat their day was past, and that it\\nwould be better for them to be pottering\\nabout in a country garden. When he\\nsaid these brave things he was standing\\non the other side of the hedge, and now,", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 79\\nwhen lie is double the age, he has quite\\nanother view of the situation. He\\ndeclares that he never felt younger in\\nhis life and never more fit to preach.\\nAt times he grows heroic, and declares\\nthat as long as he can crawl he will\\nmount the pulpit stairs and that he will\\ndie in harness.\\nFoolish people (mostly old ladies)\\nwill tell him that he never preached so\\nably as he did last Sunday, and he will\\nincline his ear to this little circle of\\nadmirers and will refuse the advice of\\nsensible men who have his welfare at\\nheart and who suggest to him that he\\nshould of his own accord resign the\\noffice he has so honorably filled. So it\\nwill come to pass that church and city\\nwill see one of the saddest tragedies:\\na man scattering the congregation he\\nonce gathered and flinging away the\\nreputation he once won.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "80 Church Folks\\nTo Suggest a Colleague Does Not\\nPlease.\\nOr the congregation may pluck up\\ncourage and insist upon the worthy old\\ngentleman having a colleague. We\\ndo not want to lose your services/ it is\\nexplained to the minister by some\\nshrewd diplomat who .knows that the\\nminister, not to speak of the minister s\\nwife, is watching him all the time with\\nsuspicious eyes. We only wish to\\nrelieve you of the heavy end of your\\nwork. Would it not be a good thing\\nthat we should secure a vigorous young\\nman who would take care of the classes\\nand all the details of the church work,\\nand preach once a day to save you\\nfatigue and allow you to go for a\\nlengthened holiday from time to time\\nYou have been very good in not asking\\nrelief from preaching, but the congrega-\\ntion feels that it is only a bare duty to\\ngive you permanent assistance. Be-", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 81\\nsides/ and now the ambassador feels\\nthat the minister s wife is regarding\\nhim with contempt as a detected cheat\\nand an utter humbug, it would be\\na good thing for a young man to have\\nthe benefit of your preaching and\\nadvice.\\nVery likely the old gentleman, after\\na conference with his wife and her lady\\nfriends, will refuse to have anything\\nto do with a colleague, and will explain\\nthat he will propose such a measure him-\\nself as soon as he really finds it neces-\\nsary, and meantime that nothing could\\nbe worse for a young man than to be\\ngoing about doing nothing. He will\\nperhaps add, and add it with deep re-\\ngret, that he is assured by influential\\nmembers of the congregation that the\\nintrusion of a colleague would undo all\\nthe work that has been done and rend\\nthe church in twain.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "82 Church Folks\\nTrouble When He Consents to\\nHave a Colleague.\\nShould, however, the minister agree\\nto a colleague, the result in nine cases\\nout of ten will be disastrous. Either\\nthe old man will so dominate his\\nyounger brother that the latter will\\nhave no room for his individuality and\\nwill never rise to his height, or the\\nyoung man will set himself against the\\nold, and with the younger people at his\\nback will drive the senior minister from\\nthe. church. It is indeed an unreasona-\\nble and unnatural position that two men\\nshould have equal authority, and all\\nthe more so when they are both so\\ndependent on popular opinion. Was it\\never heard of that there should be two\\ncaptains in one ship, two commanders-\\nin-chief in one army, or even two engi-\\nneers working one engine And yet\\nsane people will propose, not that a\\nminister should have assistants or", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 83\\ncurates, but that he should have a col-\\nleague to share with him equal author-\\nity and equal responsibility.\\nForcing the Old Minister to\\nRetire.\\nOf course, a congregation may make\\nit so uncomfortable for the man who\\nhas served it during the best years of\\nhis life that he will have no alternative,\\nand will be glad to leave, even if he go\\nto obscurity and poverty. And when\\na congregation takes this way of cutting\\nthe knot one almost despairs of Chris-\\ntianity. The meanest merchant who\\never wrangled over a cent would not\\ntreat an old clerk as a body of Christian\\npeople will sometimes treat a poor and\\nworn-out minister. They have used up\\nhis youth and his manhood and his\\nenthusiasm and his energy; they have\\nhad the bloom of his mind and the\\nharvest of his soul. For them he lived", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "84 Church Folks\\nand thought; for them in the days of\\nhis strength he exhausted himself every\\nSunday, and has permanently worn out\\nhis reserves of life. All that they\\ncould get out of him they have got, and\\nnow, after watching for a year or two,\\nthey have come to the conclusion that\\nhis best days are done, and they make\\nhim a trumpery presentation and bid\\nhim go. Then they go, cap in hand,\\nto some popular young minister and\\nentreat his favor, declaring that their\\nhearts have gone out to him, and they\\nbelieve it to be God s will that he should\\nbe their minister. And he, in his turn,\\ncomes, and soon is to be heard declaring\\nthat there never was such a loyal people.\\nLet him wait a little while.\\nWhy Not Organize a Retirement\\nScheme\\nWould it not be better that each\\ndenomination should organize a retire-", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 85\\nment scheme upon a large scale with\\ntwo conditions The first would be\\nthat every minister should be removed\\nfrom active work at the age of, say,\\nsixty-five, and afterward he might give\\nassistance to his brethren or live in\\nquietness, as he pleases. The second\\ncondition would be that he receive a\\nretiring allowance of not less than half\\nhis salary up to, say, $4000. Should\\nany one say that such a law is arbitrary,\\nthen the answer is that surely any\\nminister would prefer to retire by law\\nrather than by force, and that he would\\nbe in good company, for he would share\\nthe lot of every naval and military\\nofficer and every civil servant and every\\nofficer of any great corporation through-\\nout the civilized world.\\nAnd the Church must not fall behind\\nthe State. Upon the personnel of her\\nministry must she depend for her visi-\\nble success, and her aim ought to be that\\neach congregation have a minister in", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "86 Church Folks\\nfull strength of mind and body, and\\nthat each man, after he has exhausted\\nhimself in the service of the Church,\\nshould be kept in comfort during the\\nremaining years of his life.\\nAged Ministers in Active Duty are\\na Hindrance.\\nShort of immorality and unbelief,\\none cannot imagine a greater hindrance\\nto the energy of the Church than a large\\nproportion of aged and infirm minis-\\nters in active duty. For this will mean\\nobsolete theology, the neglect of the\\nyoung, isolation from the spirit of the\\nday, and endless wrangling. Nothing\\nwould more certainly reinforce the\\nenergy of the Church than the compul-\\nsory retirement upon satisfactory terms\\nof every minister above the age of\\nsixty-five. For this would mean not\\nonly a reserve of good men upon whom\\nthe Church could depend in emergen-", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 87\\ncies, but a perpetual tide of fresh\\nthought.\\nAt present, congregations have a\\ngrievance against old ministers who\\nthink they are young, and old ministers\\nhave a grievance against congregations\\nwho do not respect age, and between the\\ntwo arise many scandals and breaches\\nof the peace. When the Church is as\\nwell managed as a first-rate business\\nconcern, then this standing feud will be\\nhealed, and no one will be so much\\nrespected and loved in the Christian\\nChurch as the faithful minister who has\\nserved her in the fulness of his strength,\\nand now in the days of his well-earned\\nrest enriches her with his counsel.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "VI.\\nThe Minister and the Organ.\\nSongs of praise are a part of public\\nworship with every body of Christians\\nexcept the Society of Friends, whom\\nI sometimes regard with envy and I\\nwish it to be understood at once that\\nI am not prepared to suggest their aboli-\\ntion. The saints of the Old Testament\\nhad a musical service which was enough\\nto fill the heart of a ritualist with de-\\nspair, and one can only faintly imagine\\nthe kind of life which the priest lived\\nwho was responsible for the Temple\\norchestra and had to deal with the play-\\ners on instruments. The New Testa-\\nment saints began without an orchestra,\\nand really seemed to have managed", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 89\\ntheir praise for some time on common-\\nsense principles, doing the best they\\ncould with joyful lips and singing\\nbravely in black prisons. But, like\\nmany other good people, they did not\\nknow when they were well off, and by\\nand by they invented the melancholy\\nchants which have been a drawback\\nto Christians of all generations.\\nOne sometimes wonders how the\\nFriends are able to look so peaceful and\\nwhy their w r orship is so delightful, and\\nI am tempted to think it is because they\\nhave no music in their service. Had we\\nnone, a frequent cause of trouble would\\nbe removed from many a congregation,\\nand the minister would hardly know\\nwhat to do with his time. Yet I wish\\nit to be distinctly understood at the\\nsame time that I regard music as a\\nnecessary part of divine worship, that\\norganists are the strength of the Chris-\\ntian Church, and that every person who\\ndoes not appreciate to the full his choir-", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "90 Church Folks\\nmaster and his choir is an ignorant and\\nill-natured Philistine.\\nWhy Consideration is Shown the\\nOrganist.\\nIf there ever is any trouble in the\\ncongregation about the music, and if\\nthe minister ever worries himself, let it\\nbe admitted at once that the congrega-\\ntion and the minister are alone to blame.\\nBut there are difficulties, and they may\\nbe mentioned in a spirit of becoming\\nhumility. For one thing, the organist\\nis an artist, and every artist has a\\nnature of special refinement which can-\\nnot bear the rough-and-tumble ordinary\\nmethods of life. With a man of com-\\nmon clay you deal in a practical,\\nstraightforward, and even brutal fash-\\nion, arguing with him, complaining to\\nhim, and putting him right when he is\\nwrong. But no man must handle\\nprecious porcelain in such fashion, or", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 9 1\\nthe artist will be instantly wounded\\nand will resign and carry his pathetic\\nstory to every quarter, for he is lifted\\nabove criticism and public opinion. It\\nis impossible to teach him anything;\\nit is an insult to suppose that anything\\ncould be better; it is best to accept\\nwhat he gives, and to recognize that it\\nis his sphere to do as he pleases and the\\nsphere of every other person to declare\\nthat what he does is, on every occasion,\\ntoo lovely for human words, and that\\nits effect is almost too much for ex-\\nhausted human nature. This is the\\ntribute which the congregation ought to\\npay to the most spiritual of artists, the\\norganist.\\nMusic is What the Congregation\\nWants.\\nOne really becomes impatient with\\nthe minister, who ought to know better\\nand yet forgets his own place, owing to.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "92 Church Folks\\na want of artistic appreciation and to\\nan overweening sense of his own office.\\nHe encroaches on the organist and is\\njustly punished. The minister ought\\nto remember and the congregation\\nmay assist him in remembering that\\nhis work is subordinate to that of the\\nartist, and that the rest of the service is\\nsimply intended to be a support and en-\\nvironment for the music. What the con-\\ngregation wants to hear is, not his\\nsermon, although I have never .known\\nan organist object to the sermon, pro-\\nvided the preacher did not occupy\\ntoo much time. Indeed, many organ-\\nists, I have reason to believe, welcome\\nthe sermon as a rest for their overstrung\\nnerves. What the congregation really\\ndesires to hear is the anthem, and the\\nsuccess of the day depends upon its\\nperformance. When a minister has\\nlaid this fact to heart, and taken care\\nthat the people who have been raised\\ninto a Heaven which cannot be de-", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 93\\nscribed by the singing are not unduly\\nharassed by his stupid words, he has at\\nleast escaped one rock of offence.\\nIt is also most provoking that a\\nminister will interfere with a selection\\nof hymns, and still harping on his ser-\\nmon, will select hymns which corre-\\nspond with its theme. Very likely the\\nhymns may suit the text perfectly and\\nmay be very popular with the people,\\nbut it is only the organist who knows\\nwhether the tunes in the hymn-book be\\nhigh or low class music. The tunes\\nmay be so popular that every person is\\nthirsting to sing them with all his heart\\nand at the pitch of his voice, but an\\norganist will be simply aghast at the\\nthought of a thousand people going at\\nlarge, as it were, in his province. It is\\na privilege, and a doubtful one at the\\nbest, that they should be allowed to\\nsing at all, but if it be granted, they\\nmust mingle trembling with their joy.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "94 Church Folks\\nOrganists are Doing Away with\\nPopular Tunes.\\nOne of the chief efforts of a really\\ncultured organist there are exceptions\\nis to extirpate popular tunes and to\\nreplace them with arrangements which\\nwill teach the congregation to keep\\nsilence. A case came to my notice at\\none time and when I hear of such\\nthings I do not know how my brethren\\nhave been made where a minister\\ngot into a white heat with an organist\\nbecause that eminent person had in-\\nvented a tune of his own for Rock\\nof Ages/ which was a dream of\\nbeauty and reduced the congregation\\nto distant admiration. Nothing is more\\nirritating to the musical temperament\\nthan to hear the people, who are always\\ninspired with an insane desire to make\\na joyful noise, get hold of a really fine\\ntune and make it afterward hateful to\\ndelicate ears. Nothing is more neces-", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 95\\nsary than to guard the congregational\\npraise from these follies and at once to\\nremove from use even the noblest tune\\nif the people have finally taken posses-\\nsion of it.\\nOnly ceaseless vigilance on the part\\nof the organist can secure the music\\nfrom the incursion of the congregation,\\nfor they are so determined and full\\nof mad ambition that they will even set\\nthemselves to master strange tunes, and\\nin the course of a month will drown the\\nchoir with music which was intended to\\nbe beyond their reach; and the wrong-\\nheadedness with which a minister will\\nsupport the congregation in this raid\\nupon another man s kingdom deserves\\nall the trouble which falls upon his\\nhead.\\nPeople Readily Subscribe to an\\nOrgan Fund.\\nThere were days and some of us\\nwho are no longer young can remember", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "96 Church Folks\\nthem when no instrument was used in\\npublic worship, and when every aid of\\nthis description, except a tuning-fork,\\nwas judged to be a return to the ele-\\nments of the Old Testament. But\\nthose were days of darkness. To-day\\nwe are living in a brighter age. A\\ncongregation may nowadays give so\\nlittle to its minister that his wife hardly\\n.knows how to get respectable clothing\\nfor the family, and may not contribute\\nanything worth mentioning to foreign\\nmissions and hospitals; but there is no\\nself-respecting congregation which will\\nnot now insist on possessing an organ.\\nPeople who will harden their hearts\\nagainst the most useful charity will sub-\\nscribe to an organ fund, and what can-\\nnot be secured by subscription will be\\nobtained by a bazaar with gambling.\\nWhen the organ is opened by a distin-\\nguished musician, who is brought from\\na distance, the congregation will regard\\nhim with awe as an almost supernatural", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 97\\nbeing, and will count the event of more\\nimportance than a revival of religion.\\nThey will be utterly overcome by the\\nextent and variety of sound which he\\nwill bring from the instrument, and\\nwhen he uses the Vox Humana mothers\\nof families can only look at one another\\nand shake their heads as if they were\\nhearing sounds from the other world.\\nWhen he subtly suggests thunder by\\nturning on the full force of the organ,\\nthe heads of the congregation will con-\\ngratulate themselves by signal, because\\nevery one can now see that they have\\nreceived full value for their money.\\neccentricities and demands of a\\nNew Organ.\\nAfter the recital is over the great\\nman will improvise for his own amuse-\\nment, and when it is possible for ordi-\\nnary beings to speak to him, a little\\ngroup of deferential office bearers will", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "98 Church Folks\\nas.k him what he thinks of the organ.\\nHe may give a patronizing and guarded\\napproval, but he will be careful to point\\nout the number of stops which ought to\\nbe added and the number of improve-\\nments in action which are absolutely\\nnecessary. He will, in fact, suggest\\nthat they have only got the mere foun-\\ndation of an organ, and that the com-\\npletion will take many a year and be an\\nendless opportunity for spending. Per-\\nhaps he may be good enough to say that\\nsome $1500, laid out in one or two\\nimprovements he rapidly sketches, will\\nmake the instrument respectable for an\\nordinary organist; but he may leave\\nthem under the impression that in order\\nto make it suitable for a master like\\nhimself the congregation would require\\nto concentrate its financial resources\\nupon the organ for the next ten years.\\nIf the congregation has been at all\\nlifted by the possession of its new\\norgan, nothing will so chasten vanity", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 99\\nand self-conceit as the visit of a musi-\\ncian who has taken a degree and has\\nseveral letters after his name; and if\\nany person depreciates his advice as\\nthat of a hypercritical player, and sup-\\nposes there will be no further trouble\\nabout that organ, his innocence is de-\\nlightful, and shows that he has never\\nhad anything to do with musical instru-\\nments in places of public worship.\\nWhatever trials the congregation\\nmay have had before with draughts in\\nthe building or questions of heating or\\ndifficulties in finance or disturbances\\nwith mutineers, all these things will be\\nless than nothing compared with the\\neccentricities and demands of its new\\norgan. If it be blown by hand, then it\\nwill be found so large that two blowers\\nare required, and so it will be proposed\\nto have a hydraulic engine. This engine\\nwill not go two Sundays out of four\\nbecause the pressure of water has failed,\\nand then some members of the congrega-\\nte", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "ioo Church Folks\\ntion will have to work the bellows if\\nthese have been wisely left for con-\\nvenience and before they have finished\\ntheir work deacons of a stout habit of\\nbody and unaccustomed to manual labor\\nwill have quite a new feeling about that\\norgan and will confine their compli-\\nments to the Hebrew language.\\nWhen Real Tribulation Begins.\\nBy and by it will be suggested that\\nthe organ should be played by electric-\\nity and the congregation, but especially\\nthe minister and the authorities in\\ncharge of the music, will now begin to\\nknow what real tribulation means. The\\nreadjustment, it is said, will take six\\nweeks, and be of a comparatively slight\\ncharacter; it will really take about a\\nyear, with some months thrown in, and\\nduring that time the congregation will\\nhave an opportunity of inspecting the\\ndifferent parts of its organ in the", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "Church Folks ioi\\nchurch hall and classrooms and passages\\nand outhouses, where it will be lying\\nin mysterious fragments.\\nDuring the interim the members of\\nthe congregation will have forgotten\\nthat it is impossible for educated people\\nto praise God without instrumental\\nmusic, and in sheer absence of mind\\nthey will be singing more heartily than\\nthey have done for the last ten years.\\nx\\\\s there is no organ, the fancy tunes\\nwill have to be given up, and the people\\nwill be allowed to worship God with all\\ntheir might. Ignorant strangers com-\\ning into the church, and not remember-\\ning that there is no organ, will say they\\nnever heard better singing in their lives,\\nand the choir will be insulted with\\ncompliments about the way in which\\nthey are leading the congregation, while\\nthere is really no high-class choir, one\\nor two excepted, which does not con-\\nsider it an impertinence that the con-\\ngregation should dare to follow it, and", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "102 Church Folks\\nwhich does not want to go its own way\\nalone.\\nWill be Six Months in the Doctor s\\nHands.\\nWhen the organ is finally reformed\\nand the day comes for its reopening,\\nthe congregation pretends to be de-\\nlighted, but it has a shrewd idea that\\nthe days of its liberty are over. The\\nmembers of the congregation may have\\nventured to follow afar off an organ\\ndriven by a water-engine with a choir\\nin correspondence, but they will not\\nhave the audacity to intrude upon an\\norgan played by electricity and assisted\\nby a still more elevated choir. If the\\ncongregation, however, be willing,\\nthrough a sense of politeness, to keep\\nsilent, the electric organ will have no\\nsuch scruples, for its extravagances will\\nbe endless. If it consent to play the\\nfirst voluntary, it will finish up with a", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 103\\nlong, melodious howl, for which no one\\ncan hold the organist responsible, and\\nit will give melodious toots during the\\nprayers which may be responses, but\\nhave not been arranged for; and then\\nin the middle of the Te Deum, through\\nsome fit of pure cantankerousness, it\\nwill take refuge in a stubborn silence.\\nFor six months after the opening\\nit will be in the doctor s hands, and\\nfor a year following will not have com-\\npletely shaken off the habit of a gay\\nand frivolous youth, and the congrega-\\ntion will be torn between two minds\\nsecret satisfaction when the organ is not\\ngoing and it has a chance of singing\\nfree, and a fierce desire to cart it away\\nand have it thrown into the nearest\\nriver.\\nWhat between building and renewing\\nthe organ and adding stops to the\\norgan and tuning the organ, the organ\\nwill cost every year in interest on\\ncapital and current expenditure enough", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "1 04 Church Folks\\nmoney to have kept a missionary in\\nforeign parts or to have supported a\\nminister in a poor district of the city;\\nand what it costs in anxiety to the\\norganist, who is apt to be blamed for\\neverything, and who has generally to\\nspend an hour in its recesses with his\\ncoat off before service, and to the con-\\ngregation in chronic irritation, would,\\nif reduced to money value and multi-\\nplied by the number of organ-ridden\\nchurches, clear the debt off every for-\\neign mission in the Anglo-Saxon world.\\nChoirs are Often Accused of\\nQuarrelling.\\nMy own experience of a choir and\\nalso of an organist has been altogether\\ndelightful, which is one of my singular\\nmercies of which I am not worthy but\\nI move about in the world, and I have\\nheard things. As a choir consists, it is\\npresumed, of a number of select persons,", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 105\\nmale and female, who have correct ears\\nand rich voices and are lovers of the\\nmost delicate and spiritual of the arts\\nthe most refined persons, in fact, in\\na congregation one would take for\\ngranted that the whole atmosphere of\\na choir would be full of gentleness and\\npeace. Rumors, however, reach one s\\nears that the power of quarrelling\\nwithin certain church choirs can only\\nbe exceeded by the high spirit of a body\\nof Irish patriots, and that there is\\nalmost nothing so trivial and invisible\\nbut that it will set a choir by the ears.\\nIt may be the place in the stalls or the\\nsinging of a particular part or a correc-\\ntion of the choir-master or a word of\\napproval to another chorister or a re-\\nmark dropped by one of the choir so\\ntender are the feelings of a chorister\\nanything or, for that matter, nothing,\\nwill hurt. He will sulk or make un-\\npleasant remarks or resign or drive\\nsome other persons out, and then on", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "106 Church Folks\\nsome great occasion all the members of\\nthe choir will resign and take themselves\\nso seriously that the event will be con-\\nsidered equal in interest to a war.\\nUpon the whole, the choir rather enjoys\\na crisis of this kind, for it gives stimulus\\nto the artistic temperament. But there\\nare some who do not enter wholly into\\nthe enjoyment. One of these is the\\nwretched minister, who finds himself\\nsome Sunday in the position of being\\nhis own precentor, and who has to be\\nthe mediator in every dispute; and the\\nothers are the members of the congrega-\\ntion, who are apt to be set on fire by\\nsparks from this musical conflagration,\\nand who are never perfectly certain\\nwhether they may not some Sunday\\nhave to do their own singing.\\nWhen the Old Tunes Were in\\nVogue.\\nTimes there are, but possibly they are\\nfoolish moments, when one remembers", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 107\\nwith fond and wistful regret a country\\nkirk where a precentor raised that\\ntime-honored old Scots tune Martyr-\\ndom with a powerful note, and a con-\\ngregation of clear-voiced and big-lungecl\\nmen and women took up the tune, none\\nkeeping silence, and sang the air glori-\\nously, with here and there a bass and\\na tenor, even, perhaps, an alto thrown in\\nto enrich the music. And there are other\\ntimes when one who ought to have known\\nbetter things has been much stirred in\\nhis heart by hearing the people sing at\\na mission service one of those tunes\\nwhich may not be very good music, and\\nmay lend themselves to loudness of\\nvoice, but which are well called revival\\ntunes because they quicken the people s\\nsouls and give expression to their joy\\nas for the first time they realize that\\nGod has loved them and has given for\\ntheir salvation His only and well-\\nbeloved Son.\\nIt is w T ell that the praise of God", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "io8 Church Folks\\nshould have every assistance of good\\ntaste and musical art in subordination\\nto the rights of the people, but it is best\\nthat men should sing with lips which\\nGod has opened and from hearts which\\nhave been redeemed at Calvary.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "VII.\\nThe Pew and the Man In It.\\nVarious changes have been wrought\\nin the interior of the church since the\\ndays of our fathers, but no change is\\nmore significant than the opening of\\nthe pew, which in its way has been\\nalmost as great a change as the lowering\\nof the franchise in England and the\\nabolition of political disabilities. One s\\nmemory recalls the good old days,\\nwhich we call good largely because they\\nwere old and are now hidden in a mist\\nof reverent affection. One sees the long\\nrow of family pews, each carefully\\nsecluded from its neighbor and shut in", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "1 1 o Church Folks\\nfrom the common street of the aisle by\\na door which was fastened inside by\\na robust hasp or, in the case of superior\\npews, by a little brass bolt.\\nWhen the Pew-Owner was of\\nImportance.\\nIf the tenant of the pew belonged\\nto the upper circle of the district, he\\ncovered it with cloth red or green\\nfurnished it with a cushion three inches\\ndeep which contained in its recesses\\nthe dust of twenty-five years and a box\\nfor Bibles with a lock, where the books\\nof worship could be kept in security\\nfrom a stranger s hand. There were\\nalso hassocks, of a substantial character,\\nnot for purposes of kneeling for no\\none in such a pew would have thought\\nof such an inconvenient effort but that\\npeople might have their feet comfort-\\nably propped. And there were even\\nsuch delicacies of comfort as an elbow", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 1 1 1\\nrest in the pew, so that one fortunate\\nsitter might be able to hold up his head\\nwith his hand as he listened to the\\nsermon.\\nIt was an interesting sight, and one\\ncherishes it in grateful remembrance,\\nwhen the local dignitary came in on\\nSunday morning to take possession of\\nhis mansion and to share in divine\\nworship. The pew-opener, a shrewd\\nold man brought up in the atmos-\\nphere of kirks, and whose very face\\nsuggested the most abstruse doctrines,\\nwho had been speaking on profes-\\nsional subjects with the deacons of the\\nplace, and had allowed fifty of the\\ncommonalty to pass without more than\\na faint nod and a reference to the\\nweather\u00e2\u0080\u0094 couched in subdued tones\\ncomes forward to receive the chiefs of\\nthe synagogue and to lead them to their\\nseats. He goes first down the aisle with\\nstately tread, looking neither to the\\nright hand nor to the left, followed by", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "112 Church Folks\\nDives s wife; after her the children;\\nfollowing them the stranger that was\\nwithin their gates, and, last of all, con-\\ntented and superior, Dives himself.\\nThe Pew Door was Fastened with\\na Hasp.\\nOn arrival at the mansion-house door\\nthe pew-opener, dexterously unlocking\\nthe door with one hand and wheeling\\nround on one foot, faces the procession\\nbehind the open door as it stretches\\nhalf way across the aisle and stands\\nthere after a little bow, looking straight\\nbefore him, deferential, yet not uncon-\\nscious of his place in the hierarchy of\\nthe church, and the members of the\\nfamily file in and take their places till\\nat last there is hardly room for the\\ngreat man himself. It will be enough,\\nhowever, if he can just sit down, for\\nin that case the influence of a heavy\\nbody will gradually make room for", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 113\\nitself, and the lighter bodies in the pew\\nwill have to give up as the service goes\\non till at last Dives is comfortably\\nsettled.\\nCertainly the door was closed with\\nan effort, and more than once during\\nthe service you heard it creak, and could\\nnot help hoping but that was in the\\ndays of one s boyhood that by some\\nfortunate chance the door would one\\nday give way, and Dives, who depended\\ntoo utterly upon it, might be landed in\\nthe aisle. The hasp, however, not to\\nsay the hinges also, was strongly made,\\nand the pew-opener saw that everything\\nhad been done for safety as well as dig-\\nnity, and then he processed back again\\nto the door, not unconscious that he had\\nacquitted himself with credit and that\\nhe had created at least a sensation by\\nhis ceremonious disposal of the rich\\nman and his family in their pew.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "ii4\\nChurch Folks\\nThe Pew-Holder Made Himself\\nComfortable.\\nDives unlocks the Bible box with\\na key which is upon his ring, and\\ndistributes the books as if he were pre-\\nsenting prizes to a school, while the\\nmother of the family gives to its young-\\nest members such provision in the way\\nof sweets as will sustain exhausted\\nnature through the next two hours.\\nThere were cases where Dives was\\nunmarried and had no other occupant\\nfor his mansion save his honorable self,\\nbut he was conducted in all the same,\\nand set himself with dignity at the end\\nof the lonely pew. And if you suppose\\nthat any stranger desiring a seat would\\nbe put in upon Dives, then you do not\\nunderstand the discretion of the pew-\\nopener; and if you imagine that a\\ncasual, dropping into that church,\\nwould himself try to break in upon that\\nmajestic vacancy, your imagination is", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 115\\nbold enough, but it has not yet mastered\\nthe expression on Dives s face.\\nPeople Then Went to Their Own\\nChurches.\\nStrangers did not in former days ap-\\npear in churches unless they were guests\\nwith some of the families, because\\nevery one had his own church, and he\\nwent to it through rain or shine, who-\\never preached and whatever was going\\non either there or elsewhere. People\\nboasted in those ancient times that they\\nnever wandered, and an absolute and\\nunidentified stranger might have stag-\\ngered the pew-opener, but being equal\\nto any emergency, he would have con-\\nducted him to his own pew, which, for\\npurposes of convenience, was near the\\npulpit, so that the wanderer might not\\ninterfere with any other person s prop-\\nerty and might be under surveillance.\\nThere was an appearance of solidity", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "1 1 6 Church Folks\\nwhen the church was full, and of\\nrespectability; there was also a sugges-\\ntion of dignity and prosperity, and it is\\nright to add some flavor also of family\\nunity and homely comfort which was\\nmost agreeable and comforting to that\\nold-time congregation.\\nOpen-Handed Hospitality of the\\nModern Church.\\nIf an old-fashioned person, and one,\\nperhaps, too much enamored of the past,\\nwith all its faults, desires to receive\\na shock, he has only to visit one of the\\nmodern churches of the extreme type,\\nwhich are usually called free and open,\\nas if they were public houses or pieces\\nof waste ground on which rubbish is\\nlanded. Openness has been carried to\\nits full length, for not only are there\\nno pew doors and no Bible boxes and no\\ncloth for your back and no cushion into\\nwhich vou can sink there may be a", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 117\\nmat and there may be hassocks and\\nhardly any division between one pew\\nand another, but perhaps there are no\\npews at all, only chairs, and you stick\\nyour hymn-book into a rack in the back\\nof your front neighbor s chair, who\\nmoves when you do so, and you kneel\\nagainst that chair if you are able to\\nkneel at all and then you push your\\nfront neighbor, which he naturally\\nresents. Of course, there is no pew-\\nopener, because there are no pew-doors\\nto open, and more than that, there is\\nno particular place for you to sit, be-\\ncause you can sit where you please and\\ntake a different seat at each service if\\nyou wish.\\nIn the Church of To-day All, Are\\nStrangers.\\nNo pilgrim nor stranger need be\\nabashed in the modern church, for there\\nis no other person there except people", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "1 1 8 Church Folks\\nlike himself; all are strangers, since\\nthey have no right to an inch of ground,\\nand all are pilgrims, since they need\\nnot sit twice in the same place. ]STo one\\ncan complain of any person s selfish-\\nness, since all things are held in com-\\nmon.\\nIf Dives, locked within his door,\\nsuggested exclusiveness, it may be said\\nfor him it was the exclusiveness of\\nhome, and within the pew there was\\na little community the original com-\\nmunity of life, which is the family.\\nAnd if something can be said for gen-\\neral free and openness on the ground\\nof Christian brotherhood and human\\nequality, one still clings to the belief\\nthat he is entitled to be with his own\\npeople his wife, that is to say, and his\\nchildren in the House of God, and\\nthat he is more likely to worship God\\nwith reverence when he has some slight\\nprivacy.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "Church Folks\\n119\\nThe Family Existed Before the\\nPew.\\nPossibly a visitor may feel more lib-\\nerty in a free and open church, but, on\\nthe other hand, the family is broken up\\ninto units at the door, and no mixed\\nmultitude can ever make so strong a\\ncongregation or one that appeals so\\npowerfully to the eye as the long line\\nof pews, let us say without doors and\\nfurniture, but each containing a family,\\nwith the mother at the head of the pew\\nand the father at the foot and the young\\nmen and women between. For the\\nfamily existed before the church, and\\nif the church is not to be a mere pos-\\nsession of priests or a lecture hall, the\\nchurch must rest on the family.\\nThe pew is a testimony to the family,\\nand ought to be maintained, with its\\ndoors removed, and it does not matter\\nwhether a man pay $50 a year for his\\npew or fifty cents. The church authori-\\nties should see that the householder", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "120 Church Folks\\nhas his pew, with room enough in it for\\nhimself, his wife, and the children\\nwhich God has given them. There is\\nno reason in the world why the rich\\nman should not pay a handsome sum\\nfor his church home. And some of us\\nhave never been able to understand why\\nan artisan should not give something\\nfor his church home also. Surely every\\nman wishes to do what is right in the\\nsupport of his church.\\nSunday Beggars and Monday\\nBeggars.\\nEvery self-respecting man likes to\\npay for his home, whether it be large\\nor small, and it touches a man s honor\\nto live in a workhouse, where he pays\\nno rent and depends on the public.\\nThere is no necessity that this home\\nfeeling and this just independence\\nshould be denied in the House of God,\\nbut it rather seems a good thing that\\nthe man who works and gives to pro-", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 121\\nvide a house where he and his children\\ncan live together in comfort and self-\\nrespect six days of the week should do\\nhis part to sustain the house where they\\nworship God on the seventh day.\\nHe is a poor creature who will allow\\na rich man to pay his rent for him on\\nweekdays, and I have never been able\\nto see where there is any difference\\nbetween being a beggar on Sunday and\\na beggar on Monday.\\nPossession of a Pew is a Test of\\nCharacter.\\nOne, however, wishes to add, and\\nwith emphasis, that the possession of\\na pew in the sense in which a man pos-\\nsesses his house is a test of character\\nand an opportunity for hospitality.\\nThere is one kind of man who not only\\nregrets that he cannot now have a door\\non his pew, but who would have it\\nroofed in if he could, who will resent\\nthe introduction of a stranger al-", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "122 Church Folks\\nthough there be plenty of room as a\\npersonal affront, and will order strangers\\nto be removed if, unhappily, they have\\nbeen placed in his pew by mistake\\nbefore he arrives. If he only occupy\\nhalf a pew, the officers of the church\\ndare not put in another set of tenants\\nfor the other half, because he will\\nquarrel with them as to which half they\\nare to occupy, as to who is to go in first,\\nas to a hymn-book that has wandered\\nout of its place, or about a friend they\\nbrought one day who infringed two\\ninches upon his share of the pew. It is\\nfair to say that the miscreant is no\\nworse in church than he is elsewhere,\\nfor he is a churl everywhere jealous,\\ncontentious, inhospitable, unmanage-\\nable.\\nOne Man Whose Pew is Open and\\nTree to Ale.\\nBut, as a make-weight to this abuse\\nof the pews, take my dear old friend", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 123\\nJeremiah Goodheart. He is now alone\\nwith his gentle, kindly wife, for the\\nchildren have made homes for them-\\nselves; but he .keeps the family pew,\\nand will on no account give up a sitting.\\nIt sometimes seems to the managers of\\nthe church that Mr. Goodheart might\\ntake a homeless family in, but they do\\nnot press the matter when they remem-\\nber how long he and his have had that\\npew to themselves, and how well he uses\\nthe vacant space. He has a number of\\nintimates who are now old and gray-\\nheaded, and who come from time to\\ntime to worship with him and his wife,\\nand feel that they are in right good\\ncompany. He has also an outer circle\\nof friends which can be numbered by\\nthe hundred, and its members are also\\nin the habit of dropping in to sit in that\\npew; and if he sees a stranger at the\\nchurch door, Goodheart must needs say\\na word to him of welcome and good\\ncheer. If the stranger happen to be", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "1 24 Church Folks\\na young man, he will take him by the\\narm and bring him down to his pew,\\nand the chances are he will ask him\\nhome to dinner and will tell him never\\nto sit alone in his lodgings, but to count\\nthis house his home.\\nThere is a Welcome Awaiting Him\\nin Heaven.\\nAnd Mistress Goodheart tells her\\nfriends with much satisfaction the size\\nof the joint they have on Sundays,\\nbecause, although their own sons have\\ngone, they never sit down without some\\nyoung men as guests, and Mr. Good-\\nheart made their acquaintance through\\nthe pew. If some family in the church\\nhas visitors, and extra sittings are\\nneeded, why, then, the children of the\\nfamily sit in the Goodheart pew and\\nare received with open arms. Bless his\\nwhite hair and genial face, he never is\\nentirely happy and never enjoys the", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 125\\nsermon unless he has his full contingent\\nof guests and there are times when he\\nbrings one too many, and then the other\\npew-holders contend as to who shall\\nhave him for their guest.\\nWhat he is in church he is at home,\\nwith an open heart and an open hand,\\nnever content unless his friends are\\ncoming and going, never angry unless\\nthey will not stay and have a meal with\\nhim, never so full of joy as when he is\\ndoing a good turn or going over old days\\nwith those to whom he is bound by a\\nhundred ties of kindly words and deeds.\\nAs he has dealt with all men, strangers\\nand friends alike, in his church and in\\nhis house, so will God deal by him, and\\nfor him we may feel sure there will be\\na hospitable welcome waiting where the\\nchurches of earth have changed into\\nOur Father s House.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "VIII.\\nThe Genteel Tramps in Our\\nChurches.\\nIt is no exaggeration to say that the\\nuse of money is a test of character and\\na revelation of a man s nature. There\\nare men who lose money by their\\nfoolishness Wastrels there are men\\nwho spend it on their vices Prodigals\\nthere are men who hoard it with jeal-\\nousy Misers there are men who lay it\\nout in well-doing they are the Wise\\nMen.\\nWhen I say well-doing I am not\\nthinking of that unreasoning and in-\\ndiscriminate charity which, whether it\\ntake the form of alms to a lazy vaga-\\nbond or a large benefaction for the", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 1 27\\ncreation of paupers, is a curse and not\\na blessing, a sin and not a duty. We\\nare not to read in a mechanical fashion\\nthe advice of our Lord to the young\\nruler to sell his possessions and give to\\nthe poor, for though that might have\\nbeen the only pledge of sincerity he\\ncould give in that day, it would be a\\ngreat calamity in our day.\\nIf a millionaire were to realize his\\nestate and to bestow the proceeds upon\\nthat residuum of our population who\\nwill not work so long as they can beg,\\nhe would do the greatest injury within\\nhis power to his fellow-men. If the\\nsame person used his means to give the\\nopportunity of honest work, whereby\\nmen could support themselves and their\\nfamilies, he would confer one of the\\ngreatest blessings in his power upon his\\nfellow-men.\\nWhatever may have been the case in\\nancient times, there can be no question\\nthat in our day the man who establishes", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "128 Church Folks\\na manufactory in a small town and pays\\nfair wages does ten times more good\\nthan tie who would use his wealth to\\nfound an almshouse.\\nHead as Well as Heart is Needed\\nik Givijstg.\\nWhen a man s family claims have\\nbeen properly met, and his business\\nenterprises have been soundly sustained,\\nperhaps the best two things a man can\\ndo with his superfluous wealth is to use\\nit to send the knowledge of God to those\\nwho sit in darkness, or to bestow the\\npriceless gift of education upon those\\nwho hunger and thirst for knowledge.\\nIt is unfortunate that many persons\\nhave not learned to give, but it is also\\nunfortunate that many people do not\\nknow where to give. The head as well\\nas the heart is needed in giving, and\\ngiving is a training for one s brain as\\nwell as for one s feelings.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 129\\nThere are congregations which bring\\nno intelligence to their giving, and for\\nany good it does half their liberality\\nhad better have been flung into the sea.\\nThey keep up mission-houses in poor\\nparts of the city, which are simply insti-\\ntutions for the propagation of pauper-\\nism, and the congregations they gather\\nare largely made up of people who\\nobject to work between meals. Reports\\nare published every year showing the\\nnumber present at the services and con-\\ntaining harrowing accounts of the\\nmisery which has been relieved.\\nCongregations aee Easy to Find.\\nAs a matter of fact, if you give an\\nable organizer $3000 a year to spend\\nin a downtown district, he will secure\\nyou at any time a congregation of about\\nfive hundred people; and if the mem-\\nbers of the mother church wish to go\\ndown and be present at an enthusiastic", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "130 Church Folks\\nmeeting, then all that has to be done\\nis for one of its wealthy members to\\nplay the host on that evening. The\\n^gathering, both in numbers and en-\\nthusiasm, will leave nothing to be\\ndesired, and the good people of the rich\\nchurch will go home feeling that they\\nhave a flourishing mission and are\\ndoing an immense deal of good, while\\nthe chances are that they have really no\\nmission in the religious sense of the\\nword, and that their money has done\\nincalculable mischief.\\nUpon the whole, the mission churches\\nmaintained on a principle of lavish\\nexpenditure by rich congregations corre-\\nspond exactly in their moral effect to\\nthe almshouses founded by people who\\nhave more money than they know what\\nto do with and not enough brains to\\nknow how to use it.\\nHad the money squandered on soup\\nkitchens and clothing clubs and such\\nlike schemes for the maintenance of", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 131\\nmendicants and their families been\\nemployed for the erection of a proper\\nchurch, where honest people among the\\npoor might worship God with self-\\nrespect, or of sanitary property, where\\nworking people might live in decency\\nat moderate rents, or for the creation\\nof a scholarship by which lads poor in\\nmoney but rich in brains could obtain\\nthe higher education, then social re-\\nformers would have cause to bless the\\nChurch, and the Church would be a\\nmeans of far greater good in the com-\\nmunity.\\nWhen the Minister Has a Soft\\nHeart.\\nA West End congregation does not,\\nhowever, need to go to the East End\\nto do mischief, for it can create, if it\\nso please, a nursery of genteel tramps\\nwithin its own borders. When a minis-\\nter and his people have the reputation", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "132 Church Folks\\nof a soft heart, and by that is often\\nmeant a soft head, the news spreads far\\nand wide, and there is an immediate\\naccession to the number of worshippers.\\nTradespeople of the lower class who\\nwish to push their business and do not\\nfeel sufficiently confident about the goods\\nthey sell; young men who have lost\\ntheir situations because they wouldn t\\ndo their work; families of women who\\nwould consider it beneath them to do\\nanything for their own living and are\\nadepts in what may be called genteel\\nraiding; incapable men of business\\nwhom no bank would trust with $50,\\nbut who hope to get $1000 by quoting\\nthe Sermon on the Mount all these\\ngather and sit down within the shelter-\\ning walls of this Christian asylum.\\nThey All Come to Benefit Them-\\nSelves Financially.\\nThey all come, according to their\\nown story, for the most excellent and", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 133\\naffecting reasons: because their last\\ncongregation was cold and they wished\\nto live in a warmer atmosphere because\\nthey have received benefit from the\\nminister s preaching and feel it to be\\na privilege to be under his care because\\nthey desire to do some good work, and\\nhave heard from afar of the zeal of\\nthis congregation; but chiefly on account\\nof the spirituality, both of minister and\\npeople, which has been as a loadstone\\ndrawing these simple souls to their\\nnatural home. Their real reason, to\\nput it in plain English, is that they do\\nnot care to work for their livelihood as\\nhonest folk do, and that they propose\\nto cast themselves on congregational\\ncharity. They have come not because\\nthey care one cent what the minister\\npreaches nor what he is, provided only\\nhe has no discernment, but simply and\\nsolely to beg. They are adepts in their\\nown department, and have brought con-\\ngregational begging to the height of", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "134 Church Folks\\na fine art. They do not borrow as soon\\nas they arrive, and the more skilful\\nmembers of the craft will never mention\\nmoney at all. Their desire, as they\\nexplain to the minister in his study\\nwith a diffidence and a delicacy which\\nimpress him very much if he be a man\\nof simple piety, is simply to have a\\ncorner in his church where they can sit\\nand drink in the pure milk of the\\nWord; and their only trouble is that\\nfor the first six months they will not\\nbe able to pay any seat rent nor to give\\nany contribution to the missionary\\nfunds.\\nThey Talk of the Days When They\\nWere Better Off.\\nThere were days when they were\\nbetter off, they explain, and then the\\ndelight of their life was liberality.\\nThere has been a great family reverse,\\nand vague allusions are made to a large\\nsum lost either through the misconduct", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 135\\nof a relative or through the failure of\\na bank, and now they are compelled to\\nlive most economically. Their straggle,\\nthe minister is allowed to understand,\\nis very keen; but it was not to talk\\nabout such things again to him, but only\\nto assure him of the blessing he had\\nbeen to them, and their anxiety to be\\nuseful members in his church. If they\\ncannot give, they are at least willing to\\nwork, and generally by an accident\\nchoose a department of Christian ser-\\nvice whose head is rich in this world s\\ngoods and known to be generous.\\nUnder the eye of such a chief there\\nis no end to the activity of our mendi-\\ncant friends. They will offer to do\\nanything. They will suggest new\\nschemes of philanthropy; they will\\ndrive the old workers crazy by their\\nfussing; and they will go some night,\\nat an inconvenient hour, with half a\\ndollar, which, it oozes out, they have\\nsaved for a good cause. As they are", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "136 Church Folks\\nnot able to give to the church funds,\\nthey make with their own hands some\\npreposterous offertory bags, which they\\npresent formally to the office bearers of\\nthe church, and which can never be\\nshown.\\nHow They Distribute Their\\nTrifling Gifts.\\nAnd as they have no other means of\\nproving their gratitude to the minister,\\nthey call one evening, the man and his\\nwife together, who are colleagues in\\nmendicancy, and ask him to accept\\na huge muffler, which will protect his\\nthroat from the winter cold amid his\\ninnumerable labors, and whose colors\\nand construction, if he wore the thing,\\nwould render him liable to deposition\\nfrom the ministry. Leading members\\nof the congregation are faithfully re-\\nmembered upon their birthdays and at\\nChristmas with cards emblazoned with\\npious designs and observations; and if", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 137\\na child be stricken with an anxious and\\npainful complaint like chicken-pox, the\\ninquiries of our mendicant friends are\\nregular and touching. They do not like\\nto trouble the mother, but they have\\nconceived such an affection for the little\\ndarling, whom they have watched in\\nchurch, that they couldn t rest without\\nlearning whether the sweet pet had\\npassed a quiet day. They do not wish\\nto be forward, and they do not forget\\ntheir changed circumstances, but they\\nhope it will not be considered an offence\\nto have brought just a trifle for the\\nangel in her sickness, and they ask the\\nmother to convey an unholy-looking\\npiece of candy to the little lamb. There\\nare mothers and mothers, but the chances\\nare that the mother will be considerably\\nmoved and, on the whole, well pleased\\nby this interest in her child, and al-\\nthough she will put the gift promptly\\nin the fire, she will not forget the givers\\nat Christmas time.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "138 Church Folks\\nWhen They Have Spun Their Web\\nSuccessfully.\\nWhen the spiders have spun their\\nweb of delicate filaments, and have\\nstretched it from corner to corner of\\nthe church, it is amazing how many\\nflies, not all of them simple, they have\\ncaught and how much spoil they have\\nobtained. The wardrobes of the church,\\nboth of men and women, are at their\\ndisposal, and every month you are\\nreminded of some old friend when you\\nsee our mendicant, and it is quite inter-\\nesting to trace the go-to-meeting\\nclothes of the congregation reappearing\\nin new circumstances. Their house\\nrent is paid, in turn, by a set of good\\nSamaritans, each of whom believes that\\nhe is the only one who has ever been\\nallowed to do this kindness, and who\\ndoes it under promise of secrecy, lest\\nshrinking natures, poor but proud,\\nshould be hurt, and that self-respect,", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 139\\nwhich is now, as they explain, their\\nonly possession, should be destroyed.\\nSome kindly doctor in the district gives\\nhis attendance, as is usual with those\\nmen, without money and without price.\\nMedical comfort in the shape of cor-\\ndials, jellies, fruit, delicate food, pour\\ninto the house with such a constant\\nstream that it is not wonderful that\\ndear little Alice does not recover\\nquickly and that the assistance of the\\nfamily has to be called in to use up the\\ndainties.\\nLater, little Alice, who has been\\ntaken around, elaborately wrapped up\\nand looking most piteous, to thank her\\nbenefactors in person, and who comes\\non most awkward occasions, has to be\\nsent, through sheer pity, for a month\\ninto the country, and the fond family\\nwho cannot bear to live without little\\nAlice they never can quite shake off\\nthe habits of past prosperity have to\\naccompany the convalescent.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "140 Church Folks\\nBorrowing From Every One They\\nMeet.\\nTime would fail me to tell of the\\nloans which they obtain from almost\\neverybody, rich and poor. Which are\\nasked in every case in circumstances of\\nthe last extremity and with a perfect\\nagony of shame; which is the first\\nmoney ever borrowed by the family,\\nand is to be repaid in the course of\\nfourteen days exactly; for which secu-\\nrity is offered in the shape of an\\nancient gold brooch the last heirloom\\nof the family. It is only after the\\nlong raid has ended, and the mendi-\\ncants have departed to another West\\nEnd church at a safe distance, that peo-\\nple begin to compare notes and add up\\naccounts, when it is discovered that at\\nthe lowest estimate the family have\\nlived upon the congregation at the rate\\nof $1000 a year.\\nThis calculation is, of course, ex-", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 141\\nelusive of what they earn for them-\\nselves; but, as a rule, this would not\\nswell the balance. If any form of work\\nbe suggested to the female mendicant\\nin reduced circumstances, she struggles\\nwith her emotions, but cannot conceal\\nthe fact that she is very much hurt. It\\nmay be foolish, she explains amid her\\ntears, but her poor father, who has\\ngenerally been in the army, had often\\nsaid that no daughter of his name\\nshould ever come to work, and she feels\\nit due to his memory to sustain this\\nnoble attitude, and one is so much\\nashamed at his brutal suggestion that\\nhe willingly pays an indemnity.\\nWhen the Mendicant is a Trades-\\nMan.\\nIt is of no use attempting to get a\\nsituation for a young fellow of this\\ntribe, since either the place you get for\\nhim does not suit his peculiar ability, or", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "142 Church Folks\\nafter he has been there for three days\\nthere is a difference between him and\\nthe manager of the office, which shows\\nthat the manager has not been accus-\\ntomed to deal with gentlemen; and, of\\ncourse, as the young man s mother tells\\nyou, her son could not forget the history\\nof the family.\\nIf the mendicant be a tradesman,\\nand you send him customers, for which,\\nindeed, he has been touting, the things\\nare so badly made that no one can wear\\nthem, and the price is so high that no\\none is inclined to pay it; and then\\nthe tradesman generally belongs to that\\nhigh and mighty class which will not\\ncondescend to make anything except in\\nthe good old-fashioned way; and espe-\\ncially will not, even at the point of\\nstarvation, lower the price. As a matter\\nof fact naked fact this high-spirited\\ntradesman does not want to work so\\nlong as silly people will support him.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 143\\nWhen the Minister s Eyes are\\nOpened.\\nBy and by even the kindliest of\\nministers, with the growth of intelli-\\ngence in the Christian church, will see\\nthrough this class, and will promptly\\nsubject them to a shrewd labor test,\\ndeclining to mix up together piety and\\nbeggary, and refusing to believe that\\nanybody has ever got any good from\\nhis ministry who will not work for his\\nliving. One also expects that a con-\\ngregation of Christian people, the most\\ncredulous body on earth, will pluck up\\ncourage and at the same time rally their\\ncommon-sense and refuse to make the\\nChristian society a dumping-ground for\\ngenteel tramps, and the Weary Will-\\niams of religion will have to find out\\nsome new way of evading the law that\\nif a man will not work, neither shall\\nhe eat.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "i 4 4\\nChurch Folks\\nAnd the money which has been saved\\nfrom these parasites might go to swell\\nthe fund for the comfortable support\\nof retired ministers.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "IX.\\nIs the Minister an Idler\\nNo man has more reason to be grate-\\nful to his public than a minister, for I\\nknow no servant who is more .kindly\\ntreated. While there are, no doubt, in\\nso large a body as the Christian Church\\ncensorious hearers and ill-mannered\\ncongregations, just as there are lazy and\\ncantankerous ministers, yet the average\\ncongregation is charitable in its judg-\\nment of its minister, patient under his\\nfailings, keenly appreciative of any\\ngood work he does, and most responsive\\nto all his good offices. There are not\\nmany substantial complaints which a", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "146 Church Folks\\nsane-minded and good-tempered minis-\\nter can bring against the average con-\\ngregation, but he has sometimes a\\ngrudge against his friends which he\\ndoes not express, but which often\\nrankles in his heart. It is not anything\\nthey say nor anything they do; it is\\nthe quiet and perhaps unconscious\\nassumption on their part that he has\\nnot enough work to do or that he has\\na considerable quantity of time at his\\ndisposal.\\nWere he to depend upon their words,\\nthen this suspicion would never cross\\nhis mind, because they have a trick,\\nand a kindly one, of saying to him on\\nMonday that he must be very tired\\nafter preaching two such wonderful\\nsermons, and he, being only human, is\\napt then to imagine that he is exhausted\\nafter such an intellectual output. At\\nother times they remonstrate with him\\nin a casual way, after the talk about\\nthe weather, because he has been over-", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "Church Folks\\nH7\\nworking, and tell him that they cannot\\nimagine how he is able to do so much.\\nAll this is friendly and comforting, and\\nthe minister has an agreeable sense\\nthat his work is appreciated, and that\\nhe is one of the austere toilers of the\\nworld.\\nThe Minister s Time is Not Con-\\nsidered.\\nAs he grows older, however, and\\nbegins to attach more importance to the\\nattitude of a person s mind than the\\nirresponsible words which fall from his\\nlips, he has an uneasy sense that people\\nare not so very much impressed by his\\nexacting labors and his crowded hours.\\nDelightful ladies, and all ladies are\\ndelightful, invite him to afternoon tea\\nand such like functions, where he will\\nbe the only gentleman present; or if\\nthere be another, he will be an elderly\\nman, long retired from business.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "148 Church Folks\\nWhile the minister thanks the lady\\nfor her thought of him, it comes to his\\nmind that her own husband will not be\\nat the pleasant little party nor her own\\nsons, because they are too busy, and she\\nwould not dream of asking a barrister\\nor a merchant or a doctor or a journal-\\nist, unless it were some great affair to\\nwhich all society was going. It would\\nseem to her absurd to take a busy man\\naway from his work, even to spend an\\nhour with her and other equally charm-\\ning women. The other men would not\\ncome because they could not. They\\nmust do their work. The minister is\\ninvited because, as his hostess assumes,\\nhe has no work to prevent his coming.\\nAnd she would be apt to consider him\\nsomewhat less than courteous, and cer-\\ntainly not obliging, if he refused; and\\nif he did so on account of his time\\nbeing occupied, even her charity might\\nfail her, and she might allow herself to\\nthink that he had some other reason.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 149\\nWas he not sitting in his study Why\\nmight he not as well be in her house?\\nAnd she would never understand it\\nwas his only chance that afternoon of\\nmastering a necessary book. Had he\\nnot passed her house half an hour\\nbefore, and if he could go out for\\na walk, why might he not have spent\\nthe time in her garden, and he cannot\\nexplain to her that he was going to\\nvisit a case of sickness.\\nSecretaries of philanthropic societies\\nwill ask him to go down from a distant\\nsuburb to the heart of the city, and\\nsecond a resolution at a public meeting\\nof eight elderly gentlemen and ceventy-\\nseven females of uncertain age, to-\\ngether with four genteel mendicants\\nwho have come to see whether they can\\nborrow five shillings from some good\\nSamaritan.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "*s\u00c2\u00b0\\nChurch Folks\\nFaddists of All Sorts Harass the\\nMinister.\\nIt was an excellent society, and it\\nwas necessary its committee should be\\nre-elected, and the minister said so at\\nthe length of ten minutes, but the bitter\\nquestion was in his heart as he went\\nhome, tired and fretted: Was this the\\nbest use he could make of his time,\\nand would the secretary, indefatigable\\nthough he was and full of push, have\\nasked a business man that is, a man\\nreally busy to have left his office in\\nthe heat of the work and spend three\\nhours of his time in going out to a\\nsuburb and saying what was of no im-\\nportance to people on whom it would\\nhave no special effect The minister\\nknows, and the secretary knows, and\\neverybody knows that the business man\\nwould have said no in the shortest form\\nof words, and no person would have\\nbeen indignant that he should say so,", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 151\\nand every person would have held him\\nto be a foolish man if he had gone.\\nSuch an expenditure of time is\\nimpossible except for superannuated\\ngentlemen and for ministers. And, of\\ncourse, if ministers are simply fiddling\\naway their time in the house reading\\nmagazines or looking out at the win-\\ndows, or if they are only gadding\\naround their districts paying compli-\\nmentary calls and talking about the\\nweather, it would be a good thing, if\\nonly for a change, that they should\\nspend an afternoon going and coming\\nto a meeting and convincing the audi-\\nence that they ought to re-elect the\\ncommittee.\\nFaddists of every description drop\\ninto a minister s study, preferring the\\nforenoon, because they are sure to find\\nhim at home, and explain to him at\\nenormous length that we are the descend-\\nants of the lost ten tribes; that moral\\nevils would be largely done away with", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "J 5 2\\nChurch Folks\\nif we ate carrots instead of meat; that\\nthe work carried on by some person\\nwhose name the minister can t pro-\\nnounce, at a place in Asia Minor of\\nwhich he never heard, and on the sole\\nresponsibility of the man who draws\\nthe salary in Asia Minor, is the most\\nimportant in the range of foreign mis-\\nsions. Were any one of these voluble\\npeople, and they are only three out of a\\nhundred, each with a bee in his bonnet,\\nto visit a merchant s office, he would not\\nlikely be allowed into the principal s\\nroom, and if he were, he would soon\\nagain be in the outer office.\\nThe effrontery of a faddist is amaz-\\ning, but it has limits and after a little\\nexperience the faddist leaves the mer-\\nchant alone, and, as a rule, he does not\\neven attempt the doctor, but he settles\\ndown as by an instinct and with a feel-\\ning of being at home in the minister s\\nstudy. If the minister be a really good\\nman, the faddist enjoys himself very", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 1 5 3\\nmuch, for he has got a helpless victim\\nbut if the minister be an imperfectly\\nsanctified man, then the faddist goes to\\nthe door almost as quickly as from the\\nmerchant s room, but the minister\\nknows that his life is in the power of\\nthe faddist s tongue.\\nMinisters Have Little Time for\\nThemselves.\\nWhat annoys the minister, and all\\nthe more so that he cannot express his\\nannoyance, is that all those people\\nbelieve that he does not really know\\nwhat to do with his time, and that it is\\nat every person s disposal. As a matter\\nof fact, the conscientious minister of\\na city church works harder than any\\nperson in the community, except a\\ndoctor in general practice, a journalist\\non a daily paper, and a seamstress\\nunder the sweater s lash. He may sit\\nas late as he please at night and,\\nindeed, must sit till, say, midnight at", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "154 Church Folks\\nleast in order to keep up with his\\nreading, but he must be up early in the\\nmorning, because a business man will\\ncome in to see him before nine o clock,\\nand by that time he must have opened\\nhis first mail, which will amoimt to\\nabout twelve letters, and if he thinks\\nit necessary and in a city it is neces-\\nsary must have gathered at a glance\\nwhat happened yesterday in his com-\\nmunity and in the world. From nine\\nto one he is at work preparing for the\\npulpit, for week-night services, for\\nclasses, and for miscellaneous church\\nand public work, as hard as he can, and\\nthe hour which he loses through callers\\nhas to be made up with interest late at\\nnight. He allows himself some food\\nat one o clock, although very often he\\nhas to take it cold, because some in-\\ngenious beggar knows that is the best\\ntime to find him, and in the height of\\nthe season he grudges the loss of his\\nmeal-time, and longs for the day when", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 155\\nAmerican invention, fertile in ideas\\nand parsimonious of time, will invent\\na liquid food which he can take in from\\na pipe while he is studying.\\nWhen He Returns Home After a\\nBusy Day.\\nIf he has not promised to second the\\nappointment of a committee of forty\\nmembers to manage a home for twenty\\ngirls, then he spends the time from\\nabout two to six visiting people who are\\nsick, or who have lost friends, or who are\\nin religious anxiety, or who are suffering\\nworldly loss, or who have just come to\\nhis church, or who are just leaving his\\nchurch, or whom he wishes to enlist\\nfor work, or whom he has not seen for\\nsome time and desires to keep in touch\\nwith. He returns home in the evening,\\nnot because his work is done, because\\nthis kind of work is never done and\\nnever can be done, even if he began at", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "156 Church Folks\\nnine in the morning and continued till\\nnine at night, but because no man can\\nstand more than five hours of visiting.\\nUpon his return and I confess this\\nfrankly the minister allows himself\\na little more food, but again it has to\\nbe kept for him, because another visitor\\nwho has missed him in the afternoon\\ndiscovers from a guileless waitress, who\\nhas just come to the minister s house\\nand has not yet learned the duties of\\na minister s servant, the hour at which\\nthe unfortunate man will get his next\\nmeal, and has been waiting for half an\\nhour to ask the help of the minister for\\na cause which in two cases out of three\\nis a mere excrescence upon philan-\\nthropy, and a cause with which the\\nminister has not the remotest connec-\\ntion.\\nPeople who do not .know might sup-\\npose that after the minister had taken\\nhis very modest meal he would be at\\nliberty to sit with his wife and children", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 157\\nin the family room and discharge one\\nof his duties as the head of the house-\\nhold as well as to enjoy the sweetest\\npleasure of the day. It is a rare thing\\nthat this unfortunate man has an even-\\ning to himself, because immediately\\nafter dinner he has to go to a service\\nor to a meeting at his church, and while\\nthe members of the congregation dis-\\ntribute themselves among the different\\nevenings, which is quite right, he must\\nbe present at everything, or if he is not,\\nthen that from which he is absent begins\\nto fail.\\nWhen He Hoped foe an Evening to\\nHimself.\\nIf he has an evening to spare, then\\nsome member of his congregation will\\nask him to come to a meeting on behalf\\nof something or other in which he is\\ninterested, and there are reasons why\\nthe minister cannot refuse. Likely as\\nnot that very gentleman had been saying", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "158 Church Folks\\nlast week that the minister was over-\\nworked and must not make so many\\nengagements, but when the time comes\\nthat he has an axe of his own to grind\\nhe will not have the slightest hesitation\\nin asking the minister to turn the\\ngrindstone. And indeed the public\\nwork of the minister is much increased\\nby his own people, who give the secre-\\ntaries and the faddists and the rest of\\nthe brigands letters of introduction\\nwhich conclude, I hope you will grant\\nMr. Tootle s request as a personal favor\\nto myself. The same gentleman may\\nonly do this once in six months, but\\nthen a hundred other people in the\\nchurch will do the same at intervals,\\nand so the minister is sold into bondage\\nby those of his own household.\\nWhy He Seldom Has an Evening to\\nHimself.\\nWere I a layman, and some paid\\nsecretary who has nothing else to do", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 159\\nas it sometimes appears to me except\\nto write unnecessary letters and get up\\nwearisome meetings and harass minis-\\nters, came to me and asked me to tease\\nmy minister into leaving his own work\\nand attending the secretary s meeting,\\nI would express my mind to the secre-\\ntary in the language which might be\\ngiven me in that hour by a kindly\\nProvidence, and one minister at least\\nwould be saved from the secretary. If\\nthe religious public has ever any mis-\\ngiving about the money which is spent\\non secretaries, and the usefulness of\\ntheir work, it may be some consolation\\nfor that public to know that as long as\\nthere are paid secretaries for philan-\\nthropic societies, no city minister will\\never be allowed to idle awav his time,\\neither in reading modern theology or in\\ntalking with his family.\\nSuppose, however, that by some\\nextraordinary mercy the minister has\\nan evening to himself, actually to him-", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "160 Church Folks\\nself which will come about six times\\nin the winter season and he proposes\\nto read aloud to his wife, or that she\\nshould give him a little music, or that\\nthe family should look over some art\\nbooks together, or for I am not hiding\\nhis little weaknesses that they should\\nplay a game together, his wife, his\\nchildren, and himself. The bell rings,\\nand the minister looks at his wife; he\\nknows what that means. It is at such\\nmoments that his belief in a personal\\ndevil, whose ingenuity is in keeping\\nwith his malignancy, is firmly estab-\\nlished.\\nNeither His Time Nor His Privacy\\nRespected.\\nIt is not that the caller would natu-\\nrally suggest Satan to a stranger, for\\nhe is simply a respectable, not very\\nbrilliant, citizen, belonging to the min-\\nister s congregation or perhaps to some\\nother minister s congregation, who", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 1 6 1\\nmight have called at some other hour,\\nand would have called at another time\\nif he had wished to see a merchant, but\\nwho breaks in upon the minister s\\nprivacy with the vague idea in his mind\\nthat as the minister had all the day to\\nhimself, his evening hours are at the\\nmercy of the public. As regards the\\nvisitor s errand, he might as well have\\nwritten, but he felt it would be better\\ndiscussed at a personal interview fif-\\nteen minutes would give ample op-\\nportunity. As it is, this garrulous\\ngentleman sits down for the evening in\\nthe minister s study, and when he goes,\\nfull of regret for having occupied so\\nmuch of the minister s time, the chil-\\ndren have gone to bed and the minister s\\nwife is sitting lonely in the empty\\ndrawing-room.\\nThere is no other man who suffers\\nafter this fashion, not even a doctor, for\\npeople do not saunter in and sit in his\\nconsulting-room when they ought to be", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "1 62 Church Folks\\nwith their families, and he wishes to be\\nwith his. Doctors have a hard life, for\\nthey are liable to be called out at any\\nhour and to be worked from morning\\ntill night, but they are at least pro-\\ntected from casual visits and twaddling\\nconversation by the simple fact that if\\na man comes to their consulting-room,\\nhe is not allowed to stay longer than\\nfifteen minutes, and he has to pay for\\nthe time he stays. Of course, a minister\\nis at the service of his congregation at\\nall reasonable hours, and at any hour\\nhe is ready for the service of the\\ndying and bereaved; but if every\\nstranger w r ho has no claim upon him,\\nand who comes to him about his own\\naffairs, had to pay a reasonable fee, and\\nthis fee were doubled if he came in the\\nevening, then a minister s children\\nmight come to know their father and\\na minister s wife would not have to\\ncomplain that she saw hardly anything\\nof her husband.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 163\\nMinisters Need Time to Eest and\\nThink.\\nWhen a merchant leaves his office\\nand goes to his home he would be\\nastounded if a cotton broker called and\\nproposed to do business. A working-\\nman has rest in his own home, but a\\nminister s home is a thoroughfare along\\nwhich all kinds of people travel. Why\\nshould not a minister s home be as\\nsacred as that of a merchant Why\\nshould he not have his periods of daily\\nrest as much as the barrister? When\\nwill it be understood by congregations\\nand by the public that if a man is to\\nkeep abreast with the thought of the\\nday, and master the best thought of\\nthe past, if he is to discharge aright\\nhis pastoral duties and take his proper\\npart in the greater movements of the\\ncommonwealth, his time must be\\nguarded from intrusion and his ener-\\ngies gathered in from the dissipation", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "1 64 Church Folks\\nof petty meetings When will people\\nunderstand that his work is as serious\\nand as exacting as that of any other\\nprofessional man, and that while his\\ntime belongs unto his Master, as well\\nas his talents and everything he pos-\\nsesses, it does not belong to paid officials\\nand garrulous callers When that is\\nclearly understood, then it will dawn\\nfor the first time on certain minds that\\nwhile the minister has many functions\\nto perform, one of them is not to be the\\nsubstitute in society for busy men or\\na talking machine at second-rate relig-\\nious meetings.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "X.\\nThe Minister and His Vacation.\\nThere is no wholesome and sensible\\nminister who does not wish to have the\\ngood will of every class in his congrega-\\ntion, but he especially covets the respect\\nand confidence of the young men. This\\nis not because they are wiser than their\\nelders nor because they are more spirit-\\nual, but because they are unconventional\\nand sincere to the last degree.\\nA woman, on account of her goodness\\nand reverence, will respect a minister\\nbecause of his office a young man will\\nonly respect him because of himself.\\nIf the minister be unreal, shifty, cow-\\nardly, or lazy, then although he had", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "1 66 Church Folks\\nbeen ordained twelve times and is as\\neloquent as Apollos and has a melting\\npulpit voice and a charming private\\nmanner, young men will see through him\\nand despise him and have nothing to do\\nwith him, and will refuse to go to church\\non his account, while, on the other hand,\\nalthough the minister be not very clever\\nand cannot preach deep sermons and\\nhas a habit of talking plainly and does\\nnot know many religious parlor tricks,\\nif he be straight and hard working and\\nfearless in thought as well as deed, they\\nwill go to hear what he has to say and\\nwill stand up for him when his back is\\nturned and will drop in to see him in\\nhis study and will consult him when\\nthey have got into a scrape. They are\\nnot judges of sanctity, and are apt to\\ndepreciate really good men because they\\nare sometimes weakly and effeminate,\\nbut they are infallible judges of manli-\\nless, and, above all things, they believe\\nin a manly minister. They do not ask", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 167\\nthat he should play games, for he may\\nbe growing old or he may be crippled in\\nbody, but they do ask that he play the\\ngame of life bravely and honorably.\\nThe true minister is perfectly satis-\\nfied to be judged by the young men s\\nstandard how he plays the big game\\nbut he is sometimes concerned be-\\ncause young men think that at one point\\nhe has a special advantage, and he is\\nthe last man to desire favors on the\\nfield. He does not want to be shielded\\nfrom criticism nor to be given into on\\naccount of his position nor to be petted\\nin any fashion, but to do his work and\\ntake his chances and suffer his reverses\\nand fight his battle like any other man.\\nAnd, therefore, the minister is justly\\nsensitive about one subject of criticism,\\nand that is his holidays.\\nLast summer, let us suppose, he was\\nspending the month of August in the\\ncountry, doing nothing worth mention-\\ning, except walk and climb and fish and", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "1 68 Church Folks\\ngolf and drive and ride and fifty other\\nthings he did when he was a boy. He\\nhad earned his holiday by eleven\\nmonths preaching, teaching, studying,\\npresiding, advising, comforting, rebuk-\\ning, visiting, organizing, and fifty other\\nthings he never thought he would ever\\ncome to do when he was a boy. His\\nconscience was quite at ease at the close\\nof the day, though he had not written\\na word, because there was no sermon to\\npreach on Sunday; and though he had\\nnot visited a person, because there was\\nnot a person to visit, and he congratu-\\nlated himself because through the\\nlength of the long idle days he was gath-\\nering strength of body and reviving his\\nmind for his winter s work.\\nA Visitor Who Was Warmly\\nWelcomed.\\nOne evening a bicycle came along the\\nlonely road at full pace and pulled up", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 169\\nat the gate, and through the garden\\ncame a rider, tslad in light undress,\\nbareheaded, his face burned to a choco-\\nlate color, covered with dust, pleasantly-\\ntired with his spin of forty miles, but\\nfull of health and strength and glad-\\nness. He challenged the minister to\\ntell the truth as between man and man\\nwhether he knew him.\\nKnew him! Upon the whole, and\\nmaking a virtue of truthfulness, the\\nminister admitted that he did, for this\\nwas the young fellow who sat at the end\\nof the front seat in the transept on\\nSunday mornings, and on Sunday even-\\nings kept order in an East End school\\nfor boys, and was always ready to look\\nafter some other young fellow, and was\\nas good a sort of man as could be made.\\nHe was taken with triumph and\\nshouting into the cottage, and after a\\nwash and a stupendous meal the minis-\\nter and he wandered along the hillside\\nand talked about many things, and came", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "1 70 Church Folks\\nback and sat in the garden amid the\\nsmell of the flowers, till they could no\\nlonger speak for sleep. In the morning\\nthey climbed the hill behind and viewed\\nthe country, and then the young man\\nwent on his way, and at the corner of\\nthe road he said farewell and as he did\\nso he mournfully shook his head, for he\\nwas making for the nearest railway sta-\\ntion, and the next day he would be hard\\nat work in the hot city. My last day,\\nhe said to the minister as they parted,\\nand it has been a jolly one, and al-\\nthough the young man did not grudge\\nthe minister the extra fortnight he was\\ngoing to have, the minister could not\\nhelp feeling that they had not parted on\\nequal terms, but that he was thought to\\nhave the best of it.\\nCounting Up the Vacation Days.\\nWhen that happy summer day had\\nbecome only a pleasant memory and", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 1 7 1\\nwinter held the land, the two were sit-\\nting together again in the minister s\\nstudy this time before the blazing logs.\\nThey were talking of many things\\namong others that garden with its\\nwealth of carnations and the minister\\ncharged the young man with his secret\\nthought, and declared that he believed\\nevery young man had the same idea in\\nthe background of his mind. It was\\nagreed to have a debate there and then,\\nand the minister undertook to prove\\nthat he had fewer holidays than a clerk\\nin an office, and that not for the sake of\\narguing a ridiculous position, but be-\\ncause he believed it to be the truth.\\nThe young man was delighted to take\\nthe opposite side.\\nIt was indeed a simple question of\\narithmetic to put two sets of figures\\ndown upon a sheet of paper and sub-\\ntract the lesser from the greater num-\\nber; the balance left would decide the\\ndebate.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "172 Church Folks\\nAs the minister had a city parish and\\na considerate congregation, he was more\\ngenerously treated than many of his\\nbrethren, and was allowed in the course\\nof the year a six weeks holiday, which\\nhe divided into a month at the close of\\nsummer, and a fortnight in the spring-\\ntime, when the heavy work of winter\\nhad been finished. And this made\\nforty-two days. Between January and\\nDecember he very occasionally had a\\nday in the country outside holiday\\ntimes, or half a day in the city, wherein\\nhe followed his own pleasure. The\\ncountry day very often meant golf, and\\nthe city half-day, hunting through a\\nlibrary and prowling among the book-\\nshops. Let such odds and ends be set\\ndown in all at eight days, and the min-\\nister s vacation amounted to fifty days.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 173\\nWhen the Total was Wkitten\\nDown.\\nWhen the minister himself wrote\\ndown the total his opponent felt that it\\nwas hardly worth stating his case. As\\nthe minister insisted and furnished the\\nyoung man with a sheet of paper and a\\npencil the debate seemed to grow into a\\ncomedy.\\nTwelve days is the rule in our of-\\nfice, and one is lucky if he gets away in\\nAugust, for he may be put off with\\nApril/ said the young man. And he\\nwas already deducting twelve from fifty\\nand wondering what the minister would\\nsay to a majority of thirty-eight.\\nDoes your furlough, questioned\\nthe minister, include Sundays in the\\ntwelve days The young man ad-\\nmitted it did not. And so the figure\\ntwelve was changed to fourteen, but that\\ndid not make any great difference.\\nIs your office open on Christmas", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "1 74 Church Folks\\nDay continued the minister. I\\nthink not nor on New Year s Day, nor\\nEaster Monday, nor Whit Monday. By\\nthe way, unless I am mistaken you\\nhave the day after Christmas, too, and\\nanother day at Easter time. We are\\ncoming along nicely; that makes six\\ndays you had not reckoned, and then\\nthere is a bank holiday about the begin-\\nning of August, which you avoid when\\nyou are arranging your yearly holiday.\\nWhere are we now Twenty-one days,\\nI declare three weeks. It is little\\nenough for a man who works so hard,\\nbut it is better than you had reckoned.\\nYes, it reduces your majority, but\\nit still stands at a respectable figure\\ntwenty-nine days more to the minister\\nthan to the clerk.\\nPerhaps, replied the minister,\\nbut what a shameful thing it is that\\nyour firm, which has such a good name\\nand does such a large business, should\\nwork their clerks the whole of Saturday", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 175\\ninstead of giving them a good half holi-\\nday. Nothing, I should say, would be\\nmore pleasant for a young fellow than\\nto be able to take a run into the country\\non his bicycle on Saturday afternoon,\\nwhen the flowers are just beginning to\\ncome out and the hedgerows have their\\nfirst green, or to have four hours skat-\\ning through clear, clean, bracing winter\\nair. I pity you, said the minister\\nwith sympathy, not having the Satur-\\nday half holiday. You are as badly off\\nas I am myself, to whom Saturday is\\nthe second hardest day of the week.\\nWhen the Minister Envies the\\nLayman.\\nThe minister arose and threw another\\nlog upon the fire, for he was a generous\\nman and also had some sense of humor,\\nand did not wish to put his friend to\\nconfusion.\\nNever thought of that, said the", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "176 Church Folks\\nyoung man ingenuously it is quite\\ntrue. I remember pitying you one day\\nwhen I was going to skate and came in\\nto see whether you would go with me,\\nand found you grinding at your second\\nsermon.\\nWell, said the minister, half a\\nday for fifty-two weeks comes to twenty-\\nsix whole days, and deducting the two\\nhalf holidays counted into your regular\\nvacation, that leaves twenty-five days to\\nbe added to the twenty-one, which\\nmakes forty-six, unless my poor head is\\nwrong in the addition.\\nOh n said the minister, I am\\nright, am I You stand now forty-six\\nagainst my fifty. I must congratulate\\nyou upon your minority. No minister\\ncomplains of his work, not even of the\\npush and anxiety of Saturday, but I tell\\nyou honestly, Dick, there are times\\nwhen he envies a layman his Sunday,\\nfor the Sunday is the layman s day of\\nrest and the minister s day of toil. On", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "Church Folks i yy\\nthat day most people have a little longer\\nsleep in the morning though very like-\\nly you rise at five o clock on Sunday\\nmorning to study Hebrew and then\\nthey have a leisurely breakfast for why\\nshould they hurry, it is not a working\\nday Between breakfast and church\\ntime they talk about all kinds of things\\nand turn over books and read letters\\nthat have come from abroad, and have\\nthe sense of being at their ease. If it\\nbe fair weather they take the longest\\nroad to church, walking through a gar-\\nden or a park, and they saunter church-\\nward with unembarrassed minds. The\\nfather sits with his family in their pew\\nand can give his mind to the worship\\nwithout distraction and without fear.\\nPerhaps he never thinks about the min-\\nister s wife, who sits like a widow in\\nher pew with her children as orphans,\\nfor the head of her household is that\\nday on his hardest duty, and has so\\nmuch to do in leading other people s", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "178 Church Folks\\nworship that he can hardly be said to\\nhave rest enough of mind to worship\\nhimself. Please don t interrupt/ for\\nthe young man was beginning to ask\\nterms of surrender.\\nOnce the Minister Had a Sunday\\nto Himself.\\nDo you know/ said the minister\\nas he looked into the dancing firelight,\\nthat some years ago I had a Sunday\\nto myself with my family, and I can\\nstill taste its sweetness. We started\\ndiscussions on Bible characters and\\nreligious subjects after breakfast, and\\nI found out for the first time what my\\nboys were thinking about. We hunted\\nup books which had been mentioned,\\nand I read favorite passages from the\\npoets and showed rare editions and bits\\nof binding which I kept locked up from\\nthe light and dust. We gossiped, we\\nloitered, we hung over treasures. We", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 1 79\\ntook tea in the garden, we talked of old\\ndays, we made plans for the future.\\nWhy, I walked with my family to\\nchurch, with no weight on my mind\\nand no reason for hurry. So keenly did\\nI enjoy the day that I resolved to taste\\nit to the last drop.\\nDo you think I went into the vestry\\nbefore service because it was my vestry,\\nand instructed the minister about the\\nnotices because it was my church Cer-\\ntainly not. I went in through the\\nfront door, like any other member of\\nthe congregation, and nodded affably to\\nthe officials as I passed. I walked up\\nthe aisle behind my family and sat at\\nthe end of my pew like any other head\\nof a household. After service I did go\\nto the vestry, and having been admitted,\\nthanked the preacher for his sermon as\\none of his hearers, and then went home\\ntalking about the service with my boys,\\nfor it was another man s sermon and I\\ncould enlarge upon its good points.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "180 Church Folks\\nThat afternoon, having time at my dis-\\nposal, I visited a hall downtown where\\na man with a gift of his own was teach-\\ning two hundred unskilled laborers the\\nelements of religion, and came home\\nmightily refreshed, and then we read\\nagain and talked, and my family and\\nI became almost intimate, because we\\nhad leisure and it was Sunday.\\nAt evening service I had the pleas-\\nure of picking up a young man at the\\ndoor who was waiting for a seat, and\\ntaking him to my pew, and explaining\\nto him that he might always have that\\nseat in the evening, and that I was glad\\nhe had come, as we were going to have\\na good sermon. He looked curiously at\\nme, and was about to say something\\nwhen I anticipated him and explained\\nthat I was not the minister of the\\nchurch that day, but simply a hearer\\nlike himself. I had more talk with my\\nfamily after service the pleasant ram-\\nbling but not unprofitable conversation", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 181\\nof people who were not tired nor over-\\nstrung, and so the day of rest closed in\\n.kindly fellowship and inward peace.\\nWe must all make sacrifices, Dick, but\\nthe hardest one that a minister has to\\nmake is his Sunday, for it is to the\\ninjury of his own soul and also of his\\nfamily. Be thankful for your quiet\\nSundays and guard them jealously for\\nthe rest of mind and body.\\nYou have proved your case, said\\nDick adding fifty Sundays and\\ntwenty-five half Saturdays, I make my\\nvacation ninety-six days against your\\nfifty.\\nThere is No End to the Church\\nWork.\\nIt is mean, said the minister, to\\ntriumph over a beaten foe, especially\\nwhen he is such a good fellow, but\\nfigures cannot quite represent the case,\\nbecause there is the question of the", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "1 8 2 Church Folks\\ndifferent kind of work done, say, in an\\noffice and in a study. I know that\\nbusiness is exacting, that it means a\\nsteady grind, and that it is full of sur-\\nprises and disappointments and the\\nchance of great reverses, but the busi-\\nness man has his own advantages. For\\none thing, there is a limit to his work,\\nand when he comes home in the evening\\nhe leaves his work behind him. But\\nthere is no limit whatever to the minis-\\nter s work. It is ever hanging over\\nhim, ever distracting his thoughts, ever\\nexasperating his nerves, ever reproach-\\ning his conscience. When he allows\\nhimself a social evening, he does not\\nmeet with the other guests on equal\\nterms, because they have written their\\nlast letter and discharged their last\\nduty for the day, and when they go\\nhome it will be to finish the last chapter\\nof a pleasant book and go to bed but he\\ntore himself away from half-finished\\nwork, and when his friends are sleeping", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 183\\nthe light will be burning on his desk,\\nBesides and, Dick, you cannot imagine\\nwhat this means the merchant .knows\\nthat he can do so much work in eight\\nhours, because he is dealing with affairs\\nbut the minister never knows what he\\ncan do, because he is dealing with ideas.\\nIt is the necessity of production, even\\nwhen the mind will not produce, which\\ngrates upon the nerves of a minister\\nand is apt to break down his health.\\nThe journalist writes every day,\\nbut he has something new to write\\nabout the literary man writes when he\\nis inclined; the minister has to write\\non an old subject although the great-\\nest which can engage the mind and he\\nhas to write whether his mind is bright\\nor dull. Possibly no man has moments\\nof such joy when he is inspired; cer-\\ntainly no man has such hours of depres-\\nsion when he has fallen beneath his\\nsubject. It is only by patient reading\\nand unceasing prayer that he can", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "1 84 Church Folks\\naccomplish his duty, and then he is ever\\nstrained to the utmost, and never knows\\nthe rest of the man who does his work\\nwith time and strength and ideas to\\nspare. When the minister in active\\nservice lies down to die he will be\\ngiving directions in his last conscious\\nmoments about a letter that had not\\nbeen answered, and sending explana-\\ntions to a family that has not been\\nvisited, and when his mind begins to\\nwander, it will be among texts with\\nwhich he has struggled and efforts\\nwhich he has made in vain.\\nLonger Vacations Should be the\\nExile.\\nHe ought to have two months every\\nyear, cried Dick, and when I am\\na deacon I ll see that my minister has\\na six months holiday in addition every\\nseven years, in order that he may begin\\nagain as a new man in mind and body.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 185\\nYou are a good fellow, Dick, and\\nyou re wise for your years, and if the\\nChurch treated her ministers after this\\nfashion she would reap all the gain.\\nFor every new idea which comes to the\\nminister s mind, and every new book\\nhe reads, and every new sight he sees,\\nand every new gallery he visits during\\nhis holidays pass into his words and\\ninto his life, and the thoughtfulness\\nand generosity of congregations would\\ncome back to their own souls with usury\\nof reward.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "XL\\nThe Eevival of a Minister.\\nIt was not that the minister had be-\\ncome too old, for he was still in the\\nprime of life; or that his health had\\nfailed, for he was stronger than in the\\ndays of his youth or that he had ceased\\nto study, for he was a harder reader\\nthan ever; or that he had lost touch\\nwith the age, for he was essentially a\\nmodern thinker. It was not that he\\nwas less diligent in pastoral work or less\\nskilful in organization, nor was it that\\nhe had quarrelled with his congregation,\\nor his congregation with him, nor was\\nit that the district had changed or that\\nthe church had been left without people.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 187\\nHe preached as well as ever he did, and\\nwith much more weight and wisdom\\nthan twenty years ago. There were as\\nmany members on the roll, and as much\\nmoney raised, and as much work done,\\nand the church had as great a reputa-\\ntion. It was difficult to lay your finger\\nupon anything wanting in minister or\\npeople, and yet the minister was con-\\nscious and the people had a vague sense\\nthat something was wrong. The spirit\\nof the congregation was lower, their dis-\\ncharge of duty was flatter, their response\\nto appeals was slower, their attendance\\nat extra services was poorer. There\\nwas less enthusiasm, less spontaneity,\\nless loyalty. After fifteen years of ser-\\nvice in the same place, addressing the\\nsame people, and saying, of necessity,\\nthe same things, and moving about in\\nthe same district, the minister, without\\nany fault on his part, but simply\\nthrough an infirmity of human nature,\\nhad grown a little weary. He had lost", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "1 88 Church Folks\\nfreshness, not of thought nor of expres-\\nsion, but of spirit; and there was not\\nin him now that buoyancy of soul and\\nthat hopefulness of tone and that per-\\npetual joy of speech which once had\\nattracted people and won their hearts.\\nAnd, on their part, the people had lost\\nfreshness toward him; not respect for\\nhim nor gratitude for his past service\\nnor appreciation of his present work,\\nbut their sense of expectation from him\\nand their affectionate delight in him\\nand their joy in speaking about\\nhim. Their pulses were not stirred\\nwhen he preached, nor did a visit from\\nhim make an event, nor would his\\nabsence make any great blank in their\\nlives. There was still an honest affec-\\ntion between the minister and his\\npeople, but it had lost the passion and\\nromance of past years. It was now\\nundemonstrative and well regulated;\\nperhaps a trifle too sober and calm to\\nbe called affection.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 189\\nThe people had grown so accustomed\\nto their minister, his appearance, his\\nvoice, his way of thinking, his tricks\\nof manner, that they were able to criti-\\ncise him and note his faults with much\\naccuracy. He did not care to be contra-\\ndicted, and was apt to be irritated when\\nhis plans were opposed he was too fond\\nof certain lines of thought, and did not\\nalways preach to edification; he was\\napt to be too much with a few friends,\\nand did not hold himself sufficiently at\\nthe disposal of all; he gave too much\\nattention to outside work, and some-\\ntimes neglected his pastoral duty; he\\ninsisted upon using his leisure time as\\nhe pleased, and did not seem to remem-\\nber that he ought not to have had any\\nleisure time; he was apt to grumble\\nwhen extra duties were put upon him,\\nand was not always gracious when asked\\nto do more than his own work. Ten\\nyears ago no one had dared to hint at\\nthose faults, for he would have been", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "190 Church Folks\\ntorn in pieces by his fellow-members, as\\nan evil-minded and unreasonable man.\\nThe minister was very much then what\\nhe is now, but his faults then were lost\\nin high spirits and earnestness and\\nkindly feeling and devotion to spiritual\\nduty. He was perfect then in the\\nglamour of the morning light he is an\\nordinary man now whose imperfections\\nare clearly seen in the glare of noonday.\\nThe minister is also able now to look at\\nhis people from a distance and to judge\\nthem with an impartial mind, while\\nonce they were to him altogether lovely,\\nwithout spot or blemish or any such\\nthing, and you might have more safely\\ncriticised a bride s appearance to her\\nbridegroom during the honeymoon than\\nhave found fault with this man s con-\\ngregation. Whether it be that his eyes\\nare clearer or his heart is colder, he is\\nunder no delusions now; and although\\nhe would not say such things in public,\\nhe knows quite well wherein his people", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 191\\ncome short. Some of. them are hope-\\nlessly bigoted in their own views, and\\nare not open even to the best light,\\nwhich he is apt to think is his own.\\nSome of them are so liberal that they\\nhave hardly any faith, and he forgets\\nto remind himself that for their lack of\\nfaith he is responsible. Some of them\\nare so worldly that the highest appeals\\nof religion have no effect upon their\\nlives, and some of them so ungenerous\\nthat they will hardly support the best\\nof causes. He feels keenly that young\\npeople whom he trained and loved are\\nno longer true to him, but prefer other\\nvoices, and are as enthusiastic about\\nothers as once they were about him and\\nhe misses little acts of kindness, which\\nare no longer rendered him, and which\\nhe valued, not for their own value, but\\nbecause they were the sacraments of\\nfriendship. He still believes his con-\\ngregation to be better than any other\\nhe knows, he still remembers their", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "192 Church Folks\\nloyalty in years past; but the days of\\nfirst love are over, and his heart is\\nsometimes heavy.\\nOne evening the office bearers of the\\nchurch had been meeting, and when\\nthe business was done they drifted into\\ntalk about the church life and about\\ntheir minister. They were, upon the\\nwhole, a body of honorable, sensible,\\ngood-hearted, and straightforward men,\\nwho desired to do their best by their\\nminister, and not to vex him in any\\nway; who always took care that he had\\na proper salary and a good holiday;\\nwho would never complain without\\nreason, and who would never dream of\\nasking any man to resign, and setting\\nhim adrift after a long service without\\na pension. But they were not satisfied\\nwith the state of affairs, and after much\\ntalking up and down, suggesting, hint-\\ning, indicating, qualifying, it was\\nalmost a relief when Mr. Judkin, their", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 193\\nchairman, and a strong man in word and\\ndeed, gave expression to their minds.\\nThere is no man/ he said, I\\nrespect more thoroughly than our min-\\nister, for he has worked hard and made\\nour congregation what it is. He is well\\nread and a good preacher, and no one\\ncan say a word against his life or con-\\nduct; but there is no question, and I\\nthink it is better that it should be said\\ninstead of being felt in secret, that\\nsomehow or other our minister is losing\\nhis hold upon the people, and that the\\ncongregation is not what it used to be\\nin tone and in heart. My impression,\\nbrethren, is that while it might be a\\nrisk for us, and very likely we would\\nnever get any one who could do for us\\nwhat our minister has done in the past,\\nthat he has finished his work and both\\nsides would be better to have a change.\\nAnd when Mr. Judkin looked round he\\nsaw that he had been understood, and\\nwas encouraged to continue to the end.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "1 94 Church Folks\\nOur minister has so good a position\\nin the church and his reputation is so\\nhigh that he could easily obtain another\\ncongregation if he wished. In fact,\\nI have reason to believe that he has had\\nopportunities of making a change, but\\nhas always refused to entertain the idea.\\nThere is no man in the congregation\\nwho would ask the minister to leave\\ncertainly I shall not but I am not sure\\nbut that a new beginning would be the\\nbest thing for the minister, and also, I\\nam bound to add, might be a good thing\\nfor us. One thing I would like to say\\nmore, and that is about the finance. We\\nare not a poor church and we will\\nalways be able to pay our way, but we\\nhave a pretty heavy debit balance, and\\nthere was rather a poor response to the\\nlast appeal from the pulpit. If the\\ncongregation were in good heart, the\\nnecessary $2000 could have been got\\nin a week.\\nThere was a pause, during which", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 195\\nseveral brethren conveyed by looks and\\nnods to Mr. Judkin that he had ex-\\npressed their mind and then the silence\\nwas broken by Mr. Stonier, who was\\ndistinguished in the congregation and\\noutside of it by extreme parsimony in\\nmoney matters, an entire absence of\\nsentiment, and a ghastly frankness of\\nspeech. It was felt when he took up\\nthe speaking, that if Mr. Judkin had\\nplaced the nail in position, Mr. Stonier\\nwould hammer it in to the head, but vou\\nnever can tell. This/ said Mr.\\nStonier, is a conference, I suppose,\\nwhen any man can say anything he\\npleases, and there are no rules of order.\\nFor myself, I did not know that we were\\ngoing to sit to-night in judgment on the\\nminister, and I didn t know that Mr.\\nJudkin and the rest of you were going\\nto ask him in some roundabout, gentle-\\nmanly, Christian, high-toned fashion\\nto look out for another place. Oh, yes\\nthat is just what you are after, but you", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "196 Church Folks\\nare such a set of pussy-cats that you\\nwon t speak out and say what you\\nmean! For myself, I ve been a seat-\\nholder in the church for fifteen years,\\nand when I came here the church was\\nnearly empty, and now it s quite full,\\nand the minister has done fifteen years\\nhard work. Now, I do not set up to be\\na philanthropist, and I never gave a\\npenny for the conversion of the\\nJews, nor to the Society for Supply-\\ning Free Food to Street Loafers, nor\\nto any other of the schemes you gentle-\\nmen advocate. I am not what is called\\na large giver, but I hope I m an honest\\nman and I tell you that if I had a man\\nin my office who had served me fifteen\\nyears and done his work well, and I\\nproposed to get rid of him because I\\nwas tired seeing the same man always\\nat his desk and the same writing in the\\nledger, I should consider myself a\\nscamp; and I thank God I never have\\ndone such a thing with any of my staff.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 197\\nIf you can find any man who has been\\nin my office and been dismissed because\\nI wanted to see a new face, then I ll give\\n$100 to Timbuctoo or any other mission\\nyou like/ No one expected to earn the\\nprize, for it was well known that al-\\nthough Mr. Stonier was as hard as\\nnails to miscellaneous charity, he was\\nan excellent master in his own office.\\nAs regards the deficit in the church\\nfunds, if that is the ground on which\\nthe minister is going to be dismissed,\\nI m prepared to pay the whole sum\\nmyself; and I do it, mark you, as a\\ntoken of respect and gratitude grati-\\ntude, see you, gentlemen, for fifteen\\nyears honest work. No sooner had\\nthis outspoken man sat down than Mr.\\nLove joy, the kindest and sweetest soul\\nin all the congregation, who had been\\nvery restless for some time, ventured\\non speech.\\nI do not wish to argue with my dear\\nbrethren who have spoken, for Brother", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "198 Church Folks\\nJudkin is too strong for me, and no\\nperson could reply to Brother Stonier\\nwith his handsome offer. Most gener-\\nous, and just like his kind heart, of\\nwhich I have had experience for many\\nyears in my little charities; but that s\\na secret between Brother Stonier and\\nme. What I want to say is that I love\\nour minister for what he is and for what\\nhe was to me in the time of my great\\nsorrow. When I lost my beloved\\nwife he brought the Lord s consolation\\nday by day to my heart, and our pulpit\\nwill never be the same to me without\\nour minister. And that was all that\\nMr. Love joy said.\\nIt seemed, however, to touch a hid-\\nden spring in every one present, and\\none after another the office bearers\\nspoke. They seemed to have forgotten\\nthe matter before them and the delicate\\nsuggestion of Mr. Judkin. One rose\\nto say that the minister had married\\nhim, and he never could forget the", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 199\\nmarriage address; another had lost a\\nlittle lad quite suddenly, and he did not\\nthink that his wife and he could have\\nendured the trial had it not been for the\\nminister s sympathy; a third had\\npassed through worldly trials, and it\\nwas the minister s sermon that had kept\\nhim above water and a fourth, who, as\\nevery one knew, had passed through\\nfearful temptation, wished humbly to\\ntestify that he had not been that night\\nan office bearer in a Christian church\\nwithout the minister s help in time of\\ntrouble. Others looked as if they could\\nhave spoken, several murmured sympa-\\nthy, and one deacon surreptitiously used\\nhis handkerchief, and at last Mr. Jud-\\nkin rose again and proved himself a\\nman worthy to lead and to guide a\\nchurch.\\nBrethren, he said, I expressed\\nthe feeling that was in my mind, and\\nI am thankful that I gave it expression,\\nfor it has relieved me, and it has done", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "200 Church Folks\\ngood to you. I now withdraw what I\\nsaid I was a little discouraged. Brother\\nStonier is quite right, and he has braced\\nus up and if he clears off the deficit, for\\nwhich we are all much obliged, I shall\\nbe very glad if you allow me, brethren, to\\nrepaint the church this fall, for the col-\\nors are getting a little faded, and I would\\nlike to do it as a sign of gratitude for\\nwhat the minister was to my wife when\\nour son was hanging between life and\\ndeath. Mr. Judkin s example set the\\noffice bearers upon a new track, one\\noffering to supply the Sunday-school\\nwith new hymn-books, about which\\nthere had been some difficulty; another\\ndeclaring that if the mother church was\\ngoing to be repainted, he would see that\\nthe mission church should also get\\na coat; a third offered to pay the\\nquarter of a missionary s salary to take\\nthe burden off the minister s shoulders,\\nand three other office bearers appro-\\npriated the remaining quarters, till at", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 201\\nlast there was not a man who had not\\nsecured the right, personal to himself,\\nof doing something, great or small, for\\nthe church, and every one was to do it\\nout of gratitude to the minister for all\\nhe had been to them and all he had done\\nfor them during fifteen years. And\\nfinally Mr. Lovejoy melted all his\\nbrethren by a prayer, in which he car-\\nried both minister and people to the\\nThrone of Grace, and so interceded that\\nevery one felt as he left the place that\\nthe blessing of God was resting upon\\nhim.\\nThe week-night service was held on\\nWednesday, and, as a rule, was very\\npoorly attended. On this week the\\nminister had come down to his vestry\\nwith a low heart, and was praying that\\nhe might have grace to address Mr.\\nLovejoy and a handful of devout and\\nhonorable women without showing that\\nhe was discouraged himself and without\\ndiscouraging them. There were days", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "202 Church Folks\\nin the past when the service had been\\nheld in the church, and Mr. Judkin\\nused to boast in the city about the at-\\ntendance; and then it descended from\\nthe church to the large hall but of late\\nthe few who attended had been gathered\\ninto a room, because it was more cheer-\\nful to see a room nearly full than a hall\\nthree parts empty. The room was next\\ndoor to the vestry, and the minister\\ncould tell before he went in whether\\nthe number would rise or fall above the\\naverage thirty. This evening so many\\nfeet passed his door, and there was such\\na hum of life, that he concluded there\\nwould be forty, which was a high at-\\ntendance, and he began to reproach him-\\nself for cowardice and unbelief. He\\nwas looking out the hymns when the\\ndoor opened, and Mr. Love joy came in\\nwith such evident satisfaction upon his\\ngracious face that the minister was\\ncertain some good thing had happened.\\nExcuse me interrupting you, said", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 203\\nthe good man, but I came to ask\\nwhether you would mind going into the\\nhall to-night The room is full already,\\nand more are coming every minute. I\\nshould not wonder to see a hundred,\\nperhaps two/ and Mr. Lovejoy beamed\\nand quite unconsciously shook hands\\nafresh with the minister.\\nYou may be sure that I shall be\\nonly too glad, but what is the\\nmeaning of this Do they know that I\\nam preaching myself And the min-\\nister seemed anxious lest the people\\nshould have been brought in the hope\\nof hearing some distinguished stranger.\\nOf course, they know, and that is\\nwhy they have come, responded Mr.\\nLovejoy with great glee no other\\nperson could have brought them, and if\\nyou didn t preach to-night, it would be\\nthe greatest disappointment the people\\never had; but I must hurry off to see\\nthat everything is right in the hall,\\nand in a minute the minister heard the", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "204 Church Folks\\nsound of many voices as the people\\npoured joyfully from the room into the\\nhall, and even in the vestry he was con-\\nscious of a congregation. As he was\\nspeculating on the meaning of it all the\\ndoor opened again and Mr. Love joy\\nreturned.\\nWe hadn t faith enough/ he cried\\nwe ought to have gone to the church\\nat once. Brother Stonier said in his\\nusual decided way, i No half measures,\\ninto the church with you; but I was\\nafraid there would not be enough. I\\nwas wrong, quite wrong, the church will\\nbe nicely filled from back to front, for\\nthe people are coming in a steady\\nstream it s just great to see them. I ll\\ncome back for you when they are all\\nseated but give them time, it s not easy\\nmoving from one place to another as\\nwe ve been doing to-night but we ll not\\nmove another Wednesday, we ll just\\nsettle down in the church as in the", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "Church Folks 205\\nforme? days, and Mr. Lovejoy left the\\nvestry walking on air.\\nWhen the minister went in the\\nchurch was almost full, and he had some\\ndifficulty in giving out the first hymn,\\nfor it came upon him that his people\\nhad seen that he was discouraged and\\nthat this was a rally of affection. The\\nprayer was even harder for him than\\nthe hymn, although his heart was deeply\\nmoved in gratitude to God and tender\\nintercession for men. And then when\\nhe came to the address he threw aside\\nwhat he had prepared, for it seemed\\nto him too cold and formal, and he read\\nthe One Hundred and Twenty-sixth\\nPsalm slowly and with a trembling\\nvoice, and instead of commentary, he\\npaused between the verses, and the\\npeople understood. When he read the\\nlast verse He that goeth forth and\\nweepeth, bearing precious seed, shall\\ndoubtless come again with rejoicing,", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "206 Church Folks\\nbringing his sheaves with him he\\nhesitated a moment, and then pro-\\nnounced the benediction. After a min-\\nute s silent prayer he lifted his head\\nand found the people still waiting. Mr.\\nJudkin rose, and coming forward to the\\ndesk, thanked the minister audibly for\\nall his work; and then they all came\\nmen, women, and children and each\\nin his own way said the same thing;\\nand the story went abroad that Eichard\\nStonier, who came last and said nothing,\\nhad broken down for the first and only\\ntime in his life.\\nTHE END.", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "OCT 161900", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "Deacidified using the Bookkeeper process.\\nNeutralizing agent: Magnesium Oxide\\nTreatment Date: Oct. 2005\\nPreservationTechnologies\\nA WORLD LEADER IN PAPER PRESERVATION\\n1 1 1 Thomson Park Drive\\nCranberry Township, PA 16066\\n(724)779-2111", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n012 077 444 A", "height": "4534", "width": "2846", "jp2-path": "churchfolks00wats_0232.jp2"}}