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Men Who Run The Church

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
June
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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'This, ' sald the returned missionary to the poor heathen whoin he had brought over, 'Is a church. ' And the poor heathen greatly admlred the church. Hy and by he asked: 'Who Is the fat man with the big watch scal, who Iooks at the church as though he ■ thought some of putting on a 950 bay ; wimlow and ralslng the rent $500 a year?' i 'That is a Trustee. ' said the returned missionary. He does m st of the praylng, I supprse?' said the poor heathen, who, In hls bündness, knows Vi-ry little about the way we do these tilinga ''o, ' sald the roturned mlsslonary, 'he doesu't believc n praying; he is a Uob I nrrsdll man. an I believes that nobody knciw nothtag, aI1' "'at they know that hè knows that they know he knows they don 't. He is not i inemberof t 'e church, but he is a go d, clear-heated business man, goud manager, strong on real estáte deals, and so he's a trustee. Dosen't take much of a htïstian for a trustee, except In the country. In town a church only wants a good business man for a trustee.' 'And wii i is the man who stands in the du, and gluren at the people as they pass In and trie to keep them out." asked the poor heathen. 'That is the saxton, ' replied the missionary. 'He doesn't believe in opening the church for rellgious services at all. He says the eh'urch was built to have swell j weddings in, and that for preachlng and prayer meetings and other side shows of that nature the trustee should hire a hall. ' "A ho is the very young man who pushes people out of the way that he may have room to pass In, and stoops very low as he enters the 20-foot door, and sits directly under the stceple lest he should strike hls hcad when he stands up." 'That, ' said the returned missionary, 'Is the new superintendent of tho Sundayschool. They are all that way at first. By and ly, when he has forgotten every line of hls beautiful speech when thore are distinguished strangers present, when ho has startcd tho wrong tune to an entirely strange hymn and corrected himsell by striking the right tune in a key so high that tlie Chimes of Normandy couldn't ring a sicon I bass to it; whon he has i tlunked, f.iir, s ,uare and i utright on tho Brst ten questions in his question-book, he wlll know less by a tun than he does now, and be a god, useful, earnest and humble superinteudent. He's only young and now, like an Auuust iiersimmon. ' 'Here c mes the ownei ot the church,' the poor heathen sa:d. 'He Iooks as though he had deelded to make pemmican of the sexton and trustee, and nothold any service to-day.' o, that is not exactly thcownerof the ch-.rch, ' the ret niod missionary said; that is the teadet of tho cho r. ' Who is that ii ('(■;, timid little man who is trying lo creep In without lettine; the sexton sec hiin, and who ha i just taken o V bis hat to the leader ■ f the choir. ' 'Oh, that is only th pastor of the chureh, ' h' returned missiona y replied. 'Willyou g insiile?' And the poor heathen said he would, I because rath-r guessed from their Iooks Í the sexton and th leaJer of the choir had maile up tlu'ir minds lo settle that mornn which o the two should tako the

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