Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1911 — PREACHED HIS BEST [ARTICLE]

PREACHED HIS BEST

CANDIDATE THOUGHT HE MADE AN IMPRESSION. But He Should Have Heard the Comments of the Flock He Was So Anxious to rr; * Shepherd. The candidate has done his best. He believed that it had made a deep impression on the church, before which he was “candidating.” He might have changed his mind had he heard the following comments on his effort by the people as they passed out of church or lingered for the afternoon tea sort of chatter that obtains in some of our modern churches: “Well, how did you like him?” “Fairly well, but he ain't no way up to what dear Pastor Elder was.” "Did you notice that he said ‘eyether?’ I always hate to hear ‘a minister say that.” “His deliv’ry wa’n’t none too good I could not make out some of his words.” “I <fldn’t just like him havifig that pink rose in his buttonhole. Looked a little vain to me. I like to see a minister dress rather soberly.” “Didn’t his coat fit awfully? Did you n'otice that the sleeves were too long? And his trousers were too short. I think that a minister’s dress has a lot to do with the impression he makes.” “1 can’t bear to see a man with his hair parted In the middle, and if he should be called to us I wouldn’t make no bone 3 of telling him so.” “Wasn’t some of that poetry he qupted beautiful? I do love to hear a minister express himself in poetry.” “Seemed to me he wasn’t very deep. When you come to think it over, he didn’t say much I hadn’t heard before.” “Seemed to me he was rather singsong in his delivery. Didn’t Pastor Fourtherly have a beautiful delivery? He never said much of anything, but his delivery was so beautiful that he held you with it.” / “I didn’t like the way he hammered the pulpit with his fist. I like to see a minister calm and dignified in the pulpit. Always makes more of a lasting impression.” “Did /you notice the way he began so many his sentences with ‘And’? And T was just reading the other day that one should never begin a sentence with ‘and.’* : “I didn’t like the way he rolled up his eyes. It seemed so sort of sanctimonious.” “It didn’t seem to me there was much real spirituality in his sermon, and I don’t like a sermon unless it is downright spiritual.” “I don’t believe that he is the man for us.” “Seems to me that he’s better suited to some church where they don’t really expect mu«ih of the minister.” “If they called him I think that I should take my letter to some other church.” ‘Wasn’t he just splendid. I think his sermon was just lovely! Seems to me he is just the man we are looking for!” “I wouldn’t want it said as coming from me; but I have heard that he didn’t resign of his own accord the last pastorate he had. If his resignation was asked for, seems to me we ought to know the reasons why. Puck.