Choosing A
Wife From
My Flock.
When I was a tadpole that U
0 ea', neither a layman any longer
nor as yet a clergyman, but wrig
gling in that intermediary state en
joyed by student of theology 1
learned wisdom from old Professor
Love joy.
"My dear young gentlemen," he
used to say, "three things are too
wondtrful for me: the way of a
minister who meddles with his
choir, the way of a minister who
antagonizes his church treasurer,
and the way of a minister who picks
a wife from his own congregation."
That was tweuty years ago, yet
1 can still see the twinkle in Pro
fessor Lovejoy'a eyes as they peep
out from over his steel-rimmed spec
tacles when he came to this remark
urged me in the same delightful dl
rection. At times 1 came perilous
ly near forgetting Professor Love
joy's advice. 1 never passed the
empty parsonage mitbout reminding
myself what an adorable borne It
would make. Besides. 1 wan lone-
Iv. i missed my old friend. Worst
of all, 1 realized that 1 was more
or less of a captive in the farm
house. The family "owned- m
or assumed that they did, which
came to the same thing and for
the sake of my parish work 1 need
td independence. A minister ought
never to be umned" except by his
entire flock.
Then, too. there were fresh, girl
ish faces looking up into mine. Sun
day after Sunday faces that re
snonded. 1 grew tenderly loud of
them, and i am sure my wife will
forgive me when 1 confess that they
are a dear and beautiful memory
to this day. How well 1 came to
know those girls! It is a wonder,
1 think, that none of them got a
strong enough hold on my heart to
drive Professor Ixivejoy s Instruc
Hons dean out of my head. Per
haps, had 1 stayed in the village
that very thing would have hap
pened granting, of course that la-
about ministerial matrimony. Hut
it was a short-lived twinkle. The'mie or Susie or Jennie found me
good soul laid aside his notes and half as Interesting as I found them,
went at us extempore in downright Luckily, I remained only a year,
earnest. As my irrelevant rooiu-'conipleting the time I had engaged
mate put it. "the old chap talked for and then moving on. to a town
to us like a father to a sick pig. ot something over twelve thousand
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case. I wrote upon the taoiets ot
my heart a solemn commandment :
"Thou shalt not take unto thee a
In this I obeyed another of
the old professor's maxims: "To
be sweet, a first pastorate must be
hort.
wife from thine own congregation." The change was to my advantage
When I emerged from the tad-pole in various ways. It doubled my
state and got to be a full-fledged j audience, gave me more sophisticat
parson, with a little white belfry to ed listeners, and kept me in contact
my church and as many as eight ser-with cultivated people. Incidentally,
mons in the drawer 1 called my ' I had a salary eighteen hundred
"barrel," 1 found out what an ex- dollars. If 1 liked. I could marry,
ceedingly tough commandment I but no one urged me to. My new
had bound myself to keep. Not that parishioners had too much delicacy
the girls of my parish set their for that, and I believed that hard
caps for me: uot at all! They ly any of them cared whether 1
were nice girls, much too womanly married or not. My predecessor had
for that. And even had they not been a widower for nine years. The
been, forewarned is forearmed, and parsonage was rented. The church
1 had steeled my heart against the got on successfully without a minis'
most captivating smiles and the en-
dearest of glances. The thing that
scared me was my discovery at
the very outset that my congrega
tion wag determined to furnish me
a wife. Hardly a day passed with
out their hinting. Some of them
went further, pointing to this girl
ter s wife and could continue to.
As for gossip, there charming towns
folk had other things to busy their
minds with: I could come and go
as I choe, and never shake like
the poor terrified creatures in "Lives
of the Hunted.
This had the natural effect. No
I was In no way responsible my
self; and if responsibility was in
volved anywhere, it rested hence
forth with my people, who ought to
stand by me. What right has anyj
organization. Christian or pagan, to:
ipoil a man's existence by depriving
tiini the one sole thing he wants
end has to have especially when it I
U a beautiful, sacred thing, and
good for the soul? The church
would survive, in any case. That
enough of me would survive to be
worth the space 1 took up, if I let
ay profession wrtck my hapiness, 1
seriously doubted.
Along toward four in the morning
1 reached a conclusion. I convinc
ed myself that the church would
itand by me: I even believed that
the old Professor would agree with"
tue. if he understood the circum
stances. My people were broad
minded. They were generous. They
were above gossip. They were alii
ready to respect my independence.
They seeintd not to care whether
their pastor was married or single.
I loved them and they kiiew it.
Surely, they could not help loving
15. r -noltody could! So, if ever a
minister had a right to be true to
hist best impulses and disregard
consequences, 1 was that minister.
I threw myself on my bed and fell'
:' sleep. j
According to the clerical calendar
the next day should have been lllue,
Monday, Instead, it was a rosyj
Monday, an exceedingly rosy Mon-
day, or 1 spent it with her and hor
mother in a sail boat up the river.
I had never been so hapy in all my i
life.
Within a few w eeks the story of j
our engagement leaked out, and my I
woes then began. To my horror, 1
found about seven-eights of my
flock arrayed against the dear shep-'
herdess I had selected for them. I
w.us furious at the time, though both
She and I have since come to np
predate how natural and how hu
man their opposition was. .My l,l0-1 w 1 1 i
pie recalled only too vividly thei
days when She had worn her hair
down her back and climbed trees:
they could not look up to her:
was like the case of the prophet!
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or that, calling over her perfectly longer dragged toward matrimony by
evident merits, and assuring me that the hair of my head. I conceived a
she would "do." It was dear that huge and highly jubilant resolve to
these benevolent schemers were not marry only of course I would not
laboring in the interest of my wives, j pick a wife from my own congre-
They told me frankly that they were
laboring in my own Interest and In
that of the church. 1 "needed a
help-meet"; of the chunh "needed
to have the parsonage occupied."
Now, 1 was enough like other
young fellows of twenty-six
meant to marry, yet it struck
that a preliminary love affair would
not be out of place, and so far 1
had escaped falling in love. Imag
ing swooping down on an innocent
creature who never did you any
harm In her life and saying to her.
"lllrl, by order of the committee and
intending no discourtesy, I am forc
ed to propose. Will you be my
wife?" Besides, 1 objected to hav
ing my own very precious future
looked after by outsiders. Though
gation. 1 was sorely tempted to
though or rather, 1 was tempted to
try. The chance of failure made
the adventure appear the more en
ticing. These were very different
young ladies from the country lasses
I of niv first parish. My city breed-
tne Ing no longer gave me the advan
tage. I had come among equals
and more than equals. Hut while
riskiness appealed to the man In
Hie, It acted just the opposite way
on the minister in ni What If one
day Deacon Bradford should be say
ing to Deacon Kldriige, "Brother,
our beloved pastor has received the
mitten!" On the whole, then, I
determined to stitk by Professor
l.ovejoy and his precept.
I suppose there is nothing on
a minister, I thought 1 ought to earth much more ridiculous than a
do the choosing myself. "Down with young man looking for a wife, and
the bosses!" 1 cried. Hut what it cannot be denied that I was look
especially worried me was my sal-ilng with both eyes and a search
nry. Say all you like, a help-meet light. Of course I found no wife.
Is a help-eat, and 1 had just six A girl catches a man at that trick,
hundred a year. and backs away. I must avoid be-
Still, I could see why tny people ing too specific, else i might tell of
felt as they did about the parson- several slight skirmishes outside
age. There It stood, bleak and my conreation. I took them a good
tenantless, its fireplace cold, its deal to heart at the time, for n wife
blinds shut, its door locked a con- hunter readily imagines himself in
stant reminder, by contrast, of the love.
hospitable home it had been and of Then, all of a sudden, came a rev
the warm, welcoming, joyous parish elation. One Sunday morning while
the organ was playing.
center It ought to once more to be
come. It belonged to my people,
and at present It was worse than
dead property. .Meanwhile, here was pew from the front. I knew
I, with a study in the farmhouselan instant that she was the Girl
The Girl
walked up the middle aisle with her
mother and sat down In the fourth
in
al-
whfre I hoarded and not by nnyjthough I had never set eyes on her
means a pastor easy to git at. If .before. She was back from a year's
they came to see me, my parishion- trip abroad.
erg had first to squirm past the Now, when I call lur The Girl,
farmer's wife. No offense to that I mean this: All others dwindled
agreeable dame, yet I must say that 'to nothing; my responsibilities
she was gifted with rare fluency IdwIndUd to nothing: If you had re
and persistence of speech. minded me of Professor Uivejoy, I
Later on I found out what my neo-should have felt like smiting you
pie meant by nij "needing a help
meet. They wanted two ministers
for one salary. This was reasona
ble in the sense that a yard of
silk at the price of half a yard Is
"reasonable." It was reasonable In
on both cheeks. And I was not
thinking of Her as a possible minis
ter's wife, either, i wag thinking
of Her as a girl I would leave the
ministry for. if necessary, provid
ed only that She would have nte.
another sense also. Time out of. Yes, that was Just what was in my
mind our little church hnd paid Its mind at the moment, and thank
preacher, and got the services of God it Is still there! I could find
its preacher's wife free. She hadlother fields of Christian usefulness.
but I knew I should never find
a not lur girl I could bring myself to
marry.
How I knew It? Well, that is a
story by Itself, and a long one.
The problem that pertains at pres-
tatfjht the Bible class, played the
organ, managtd fairs and sales, vis
ited the slrk, and been a blessing
to the parish in a thousand ways.
Better still, she hnd policed hor husband.
Personally. I thought I could po-'ent Is how I ever managed to pull
lice mysilf. but here I was mlstak- through the service that Sunday
en, and I soon realized my mistake. morning w ithout giving an lutlma'
I was not a skittish persm. or. lion of an utter, uhjnct idiot. Never
more than normally "stuceptible." ( the-U ss, I did pull through, per
I walked circumspectly. And yet .haps because the wondtrful blue
thlg was InsuficUnt. A country ryes seemrMl o say, "Oh, don't
parson must not only avoid flirta- let anyone find out!" Honestly, I
tlon; he mcst have at his side a : fancied they said that; and I think
living, visible preventive of filrtn- proper to admit It, as It will show
tlon. Otherwise, gossip sets in and you the mood I wag in.
In the ministry the things people) After the benediction I stepped
say of you count f ir very nearly i down from the pulpit, as my cus
ng much, one way or the other, ns torn was, to shake hands with my
the kind of man you really are. people, and her mother introduced
Within two months Pame Kuinnr had. me to Her. That afternoon 1 call-
tion, and said they would like to
jjjmeet her. I thought it queer. Still
queerer was ineir sinning requetii,
a moment later, that we take a lit
tle walk with them. Then it struck
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the prospect of her promotion from . . T., l" "77v ' .,"
the ranks to a position of leader-1 '7' . , . i
ship annoyed the women who were!f'"'"'n- As or my fiancee words
leaders already; they could have '
i lirriis ur llie Kiun in nrr i
yielded much mote gracefully to a
stranger coming in from outside,
but It displeased them to have to
yield at all. Then, too. It appiared
that my alliance with her family
and her set made me s.'em less a
servant of the parish in general.
Finally, there was a side of the
matter that I hate to sptak of. but
v.-HI, because It belongs to the story.
Years later I learned to my astonish
ment that several benevolent match-j
makers had had designs on me and
resented my escape. j
Now you are not to suppose that ;
anything shocking or sensational j
took place in our church. Far from
ll! My parishioiit rs treated me
with entire courtesy. Congratula
tions poured in. Hut they were
formal, perfunctory, carefully word
ed cotigrattilations.eldetitlv- thought
out beforehand and quite lacking In
exuberance. They hurt. They made
me angry. They grieved her. They
disturbed her mother. .My Indlgna-
the captivating diffidence in her
manner, when the stateliest of the
three committeemen said to hfr, "I
suppose 1 ought to tell you that
we have something on our minds
and want your advice. We need a
minister at our church in Spring
field. Do you think this young man
will do?"
That I accepted the call I need
hardly add, any more 'than I need
add that when she and I were mar
ried, a few weeks afterward, It was
good Professor lovejoy who came
four hundred miles to ti the knot,
or that she has been for eighteen
happy years the chief source of my
ministerial success. There is, how
ever, a thing 1 ought to add, as it
surpristd me at the time and I In
fer that it reveals a side of human
nature that people often overlook. It
was this: The minute 1 announced
my intention of leaving, all hostili
ty vanished. I was not teased to
stay, hut expressions of regret were
tlon grew. I could no longer trust ""V,.., .V -T.T.... J...i i "L'J
myself to preach without notes; , , h h d ,
wrote my sermons, trying my best,,, ... .. , .
to put into them the warmth, the : C.:' I " I I 'i "
kindness and the devoted enthusi-
Iceivable way; it has been a pleas.
"KUUI- . !.!, .1.
asm that had died out of my heart. " "1 .I IT I i,:.
Of course I failed. A curious aloof-' ' .., " "T 1. . V " 1 X,"V Z' ""
ness had come over my people. If''"' . " . .' -
enilurf me to look Into the farpg . ,r. . , . ...... ,13U
had once lighted up so grate- ' (relllturenevertheless." As for
fully and were now listless. No mat-, . ,.,, ,..j , ..,
ter how faithfully I tolled over my1 , '"": " " ' ",,
manuscript, they were like dried; ft PaSor fi?
leave when I took them Into the ?..,,,,,
pulpit. Preaching, you know, de
pends as much on the listeners as
on the speaker. I'tiless they do
their part, he ran never hope to do
World.
I'nsighlly Face Spots.
Are cured by Dr. Hohson's Ecze-
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l.l.. , .. i .. i i .. .. in t . ' ui villi ineiii , w iiivii iietuo nil bkiii
his. .nd when i went calling I nieti , v.' ,,,. i ..
receu r , ' . n, .P n J 1 been troubled by itching, burn-
received, politely entertained. But .,. nr ., Bliln h' ..' . nut
had slipped away. I felt that I was , HobHon., Kctema ointment, on
being held at arm s length. Thl." g(mg Rd , utterinK ttopn
made me self conscious. In a word, ... ..,,.. .. 'h ' T . i.... ,... ....
,1.1,. . . .. . ,.. .. lliniumit. lltrutlliK ursiiis mat, icii
L f i come i."' , P!"W i,rH,"' I minute. Doctors use it in their
prH'lsHy as Professor Lovfjoy ' ,, rw0lnmend . Mr.
i.i, . , i.. i V i , , . Alleman, of Llttletown, Pa., says:
hp?I , iVTi . ? ' C0' Si' Had eciema on forehead; Dr. Hob-
her m i8 " Ver, Kfa Ointment cured It In
her, and oh! but I was sorry I did,1, t ., n..,. , ...iio...
t-n-u mm. uifiiueu nridrii, mur
me paying court to three different
girls. In whom, ns a matter of fact.
1 had only a pastoral Interest. True
I had railed twice In etch Instance
but I had called twice on every
mr mher of my parish.
Though I was a good deal vexed.
I could understand how naturally
these suspicions got talked around.
Anything that people desire to see
and expect to see. they easily con
vince themselves that they do see.
To my parishioners a minister was
"a marrying man," and no lad in
our pretty village ever thought of
bringing in a wife from afar; he
marled the nearest girl; consequent
ly I would pick a wife from my own I
cd. That evening I walked home
from church with her. That night
I pared the floor of my boarding
house room till the hcurs began to
grow big.
Consider it. I had repudiated a
resolution, staking everything on
what I had been taught to regard
g a professional blunder, and risk
ing grave damage to my career. All
this I realized, cheerfully enough.
The torment of it. was the question
of right and wrong. What business
had I to pick a wife from my own
congregation, when the choice would
make trouble in iny church?
Well, what business has a man
to get struck by lightning, or to
congregation, and it only remalned.be drowned at sea, or demolished
to guess which girl I would favor. by a railroad train? This affair
But while pressure from without was not of my seeking, nor could I
urged me toward matrimony, there have prevented it. It was a gplen
was also pressure from within. It did accident. It simply happened.
eMM h "T"" """.or money refunded. All druggists,
child. She said there would be a; h ' , B(. i.felffer
smash, sure ns fate, and that ltlL.m, 1 lllA L, 11a
would be her fault. She said she(Lou, So)d E J u Co
had spoiled my career. She cried, '
on my shoulder till her mother , -i .... . i. i.
., , . . , . , . rHinieuuuv risrti iu remain i uni in
heard her and came running in to r.n . u.,.,1,1. ...... -.m
see what the matter was. I , ' . ,j . u. ,,,
Quite a wone we hat!, dUruftMlnjr . . n..i, ...mi
..ti,i. i . .it ia , ill l-ii(t; iinu nirii mr niniiiK
our plight-I protest ng I would re-; 8ubsrtptu, list right now.
sign, sha Insisting 1 must n t, and,
her mo'lnr vehemently entreating , .. ,, Tiin in l
us to be patient, as she "knew" ev-; lv .wivunc
erj thing would turn out right In he Mo have found olt
. ' r., ano'her that A SINGLE DOSK of simple
week be ore making up my mind. I mi,.klnorn bark gly(.erine, etc., as
,r. t f,ol,01lnK V'n, 'Y .,a fanT" compounded In Adler-l-ka. the u'er
. !.?,h ' h ,KP ttt Lhf,1,e pa? r n.an lK)wel and stomach remedy, re
? . nJ h U Wk" rom '",,e- l'-ves constipation, sour atomach or
I had expected a somewhat dlmin-: ,h. '.,,',, ivsstavti.y
gas on th stomach INSTANTLY.
This simple mixture became famous
Ished congregation, but never the
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lead as I climbed the puip'l stairs.
Presently she can e up the aisle,
beaming encouragement at me, but
when she reached her seat I saw
her lip quiver. I looked away, over
me rows of deserted pens, and as I
looked I noticed something unusual.
Three stately old gentlemen, entire
strangt rs, were being shown In. At
least I could preach to them. And
certainly I could preach to the hand
ful or my own parishioners who had
come. For tluse must he friends.
My heart went out to thorn. It was
like old times.
I was myself again, and when I
stood up to preach I wholly forgot
that 1 had brought along a manu
script. I forgot everything but my
message and the belovul few who
were there to receive It. I was
once more a true mlnlsfr of God.
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shone, and so did othrs particu
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