Gets Ideas For Preachers

The Cincinnati Times-Star has found a man who holds the position of agent íor a popular preacher in that city. lie v.-;is a college gradúate and had studied law, theology, horses, music, the drama and had tried the newspapers, all without success. Then he made the discovery that the preachers were the hardest pushed of all professional men for ideas to incorpórate into thcir sermons. The oíd, oíd story is all right as a foundation, but so many changes have been rung1 on it since the yemjl that it takes an extraordinary man to coneeive an original view of it. "Sow this," said the agent, "is what I do. A preacher hires me to wander about town and report to hkn little incidents or queer Ideas t '.uit strike me. He takes thee and weaveS thetn into sermons. Forinstance. a preacher who has a large congrogation with much visiting to do could not. if he Irve so inclined, visit all the pobli'c meetings, the resorts of gamblcrs and drunkards, the factories and slums of the cify. 1 am the eyes through which he sees these things, and using my information he speaks learnedly and intelligently of all phases of life and sets bis eongregation a-wondering where he (feta time to seo so much. He is thus enabled to interest every element in his OOngregation, appearing to the sportiuf men ;is a sport, to the athlete as an enthusiast in athletiCB, to the musician as a musieian. and to the theater-goer as one well versed in the plays of the day. I also teil him what the people are saying about him, and so he is able to talk to the different classes in a way that leads them - ignorant of my offices as a (JO-between - to think him really wonderful in reading theirthouglits. I am liberal in my ideas. (Jne month I serve a Methodist, the next may look at the same things with Baptist eyes, or Presbyte'rian, or may do service for a heretic. 1 am at present working for a preacher in this city whose sermons are very much noticed by the papers, and who is noted for his original ideas, whieh I furnish, but for which I am well paid."