An Ideal Clergyman In Actual Life

The correspondent of an English paper thus sums up the good qualittea of a clergyman in St. James Parish Pontypool. Speaking of representative men, Ralph Waldo Emerson says: "I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty ; he has bilt to open his eyes to see thmgs in a true light and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections and keep a vigilant eye on many sources, He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. Ministers of the Gospel are geuerally believed to inhabit a higher sphere of thought than other men. The clergy of the Church of England as by law established have many special opportunities of dweiling ir. learned leisure and lettered ease, apart from the fierce tumult of the busy workaday world. And even ovei those of her sons on whom the hardest labor falls, the Church seems to exercise an influence of refihement and culture. The piety, leaming, and genius of her distinguished ministers, from Jeremy Taylor to Dean Stanley the noble traditions of her afllictions her trials, and her triumphs ; the sol emn beauty and pathos of her liturgy all these must exert an assimilative influenceon the minds and hearts o lier clergy.