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A CLERGYMAN’S TEMPTATIONS.
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A Voimir tlfrK)innn‘N Temptation!*—
liUoliitc llii I'Hrluhoiippi-PrtMbm
*r Inal Mortals. niial the Woiih-ii
Should linina lt.~Wo<Hl Ailrlr*.
.Film Iftr tfnnitfi South.
Wi cx-lquaeopal minister. arid how n
lirilliant lawyer in Now Vork. was recently
npproai horihy a reporter on the subject of
bis bavin" retired from the ministry under
some suspicions as to his moral hearing,
when he expressed hinisc If fully anal freely,
lie said he had left the ministry because he
felt unfitted for it. and found the ordeal of
pastoral visits unpleasant. The pay was
small, the charge critical, and clergymen
wore l-lxt most envious men in the world.
The preaching he liked. It had all the ex
citement of tluc political stump, with the
added rlrarm that he spoke by authority,
and nobody could contradict him. Then,
too, it was ronl pleasure to look down into
scores of fair young faces every Sunday
and find them fixed upon you with a sort
of hunger that is paid to none but the
preacher and the Almighty.
“nut was there any real trouble —any
impropriety?” he was asked again.
“There was trouble enough, to he sure;
about impropriety, it would he difficult to
draw the line and say whether there was
any' or not. lam disposed to-day to talk
freely about this matter, and I might not
do it agnm in years. Perhaps it is because
1 feel like preaching a sermon, with myself
for a text, bet me say just here that few
know the extent of temptation to which a
young clergyman is subjected. Ho comes
out of the Theological Seminary at the age
of twenty-two, perhaps (as 1 did), with a
most charming ignorance of the world. At
once he is sent to take charge of a church
and look after the lives ami consciences of
several hundred people. He goes straight,
into the confidence of all these families.
At any hour of the day he can ring the
bell and he will be a welcome guest. His
privileges are many and manifest. It is
thought no harm in him to kiss the mar
ried ladies. The young ladies are sent to
his study to he fitted for confirmofion and
to pass hours alone with him there in
prayer and religious conversation. Of
course Uis expected that he will he enough
of an anchorite not to notice whether a
lady's cheek is fair, her form beautiful, her
manners fascinating. Tit his ministerial
capacity he is not a man, only a priest or
preacher. Now, to no other class of men
are such privileges extended. If 1 gentle
man calls at an unseemly hour it looks
strange; not fto in a clergyman. If any
other than the minister takes long walks
or holds lengthy confabs with married la
dies or misses it is noticed at once. Hut a
parish always insists that a minister shall
call often and especially on the ladies. The
men usually prefer to be absent when the
“dominie” is nround. Unless a young
man’s head is very level, indeed, what can
you expect hut that it will be turned by
such privileges and duties as these?”
WINE AND WOMEN.
“ Everywhere, too. hospitality is forced
upon the minister. Unless ho be a teeto
taler the beer-barrel is sure to be tapped,
or the decanter brought out. while he is on
his rounds, and then see how the poor man
is situated? lie sits with wine-glass in
hand, and the flush slowly rising up in his
cheeks, while his charming hostesses gaze
at him with an admiration which will soon
drive him into conceit or desperation. His
tongue will chatter all sorts of worldly
nonsense, and the first thing he knows it
will start off nn some forbidden theme,
and his entertainer of the moment will he
shocked, or she will join in with him. and
two souls will thus be thrust into the broad
road of temptation. It is a mighty hard
tiling, as 1 have found, to talk of spiritual
matters on such occasions. They don't
seem to he seasonable. In fact, it is apt
tof upset a man entirely, and there has
always seemed to me to be something rad
ically wrong in the system which allows
such unrestrained intercourse between
strangers to exist. Take a villain and give
him such opportunities, and he will plant
more tares in a year in one small congre
gation than a whole century of prayer can
uproot or obliterate.
A PRETTY WIDOW.
“You think I am letting myself out?
"Well, perhaps I am. Perhaps, after all, it
will he just as well if I give you an inci
dent or two from my own experience.
There was a very pretty young woman in
one of my own congregations who lost her
husband while 1 was there. At the third
visit my stock of scripture applicable to
such cases had run out, and I was sitting
on pins and needles, trying to think of
some commonplaces to suit the occasion.
As I thought, 1 looked at her sitting be
side me with downcast face, I could think
of.nothing else. I gazed with silent admi
ration, and at length she looked up and
read the whole story in my eyes. I took
one in mine, and with the other drew
hcr.to me, held her in my arms, and kissed
her. It was all wrong, of course, Did I
tell you that I was married? No? Well,.
I was inarrifd at the tirf e, and had a fain*
ily, too. As I left the house, Mrs. S. re
marked that she was grutefiil for m v sym
pathy, and I stammered out something in
return. That night I scarcely slept any
for the sin of kissing ray parishioner. Yet
bow could ! forsake her? I must call in
.common decency. To make a long story
short, I continued to call. The pretty
young widow met me with a kiss, and we
sat and chatted hand-in-hand, and looked
a pretty strong platonic atlection in each
othcr'R eyes. Yet all this was dohe with
out design, simply because the opportunity
j brought it about.
A FA lit MAIDEN, TOO.
| “This same bewitching widow got me
into a fearful scrape, or rather, she nearly
ilid it. After awhile sip* assumed a sort of
ownership of myself ami my conscience,
and affected to get very jealous of a young
lady of the congregation who lived a little
way out of town, ami occasionally passed
the night with my family. The latter wns
very pretty, very ifrch in her ways* and
was a general favorite with us all. The
widow had reason to be jealous, in a meas
j ure, for it happened that one day on enter
! ing my study the young lady sat there
reading, and on entering put on my hat.
and looked roguishly. 1 demanded the
forfeit—being privileged as a clergyman to
audacious—and took it. As my lips met
hers my kisses were returned with interest,
i The widow found it out somehow, and
charged me with my perfidy to her affec
! tion. Of course I had plenty of denials at
I her service; I declared with vehemence
i that my lips had never touched the lady’s
I checks. She mignt have believed me had
she not met us riding out to the young
lady’s house a few days afterward, when
T was taking toll of her lips on the road.
I pleaded guilty, but recommended myself
to the mercy of the court. Like another
Adam. I pleaded tepiptation. Now for an
other instance:
TOO MANY EYES.
“ A lady came to our little city fVom the
North, and carried all hearts by storm.
Her conquests availed her nothing unless
she could carry a minister’s scnlp at her
waist also. AA'cll it dangles there. She
carried off a ring from my finger, and wo
man-like. exhibited the trophy to half a
dozen intimate friends. The senior war
den. a worthy police magistrate, heard of
it the next moaning, and came to sec me
the same night. It was not much use to
make a denial, and vet no great harm had
been done. lie tmly thought that his pas
tor had been making a fool of himself, and
the pastor thought so too.
AN OLI) MAID’S LOVE.
“ T have told you these facts to illustrate
the evil manner in which the clergyman is
permitted to he made the idol of the neigh
borhood and the fetish of womankind. To
tell it subjects me to some evil suspicions,
which T care nothing about, and to a sus
picion of self-conceit, which 1 am anxious
to avoid. Remember, however, that 1 tell
you this simply as illustration; and re
member that my successes in love were
<luc to my clerical garb and not to me. The
veriest scrub in a surplice receives much
the same adoration from his Hock. The
homeliest man. and the least interesting
that I ever knew in the ministry, was some
years ago rector of a young ladies’ semi
nary in Colorado, and he distinguished
himself and disgraced his cloth by eloping
with the prettiest of his teachers. Had he
not been a clergyman, it is not at all likely
that she would have looked at him.
“ The position of the shepherd of the
flock had its penalties as well as its pains.
At one place there was a furiously homely
maiden lady who Was nearly twice my
years, who was strongly suspected of in
sanity, and who made violent love to me.
Every other day there came to me an epis
tle from this lady, on one subject or an
other. Sometimes she sent poetry that she
wished corrected. Days that she did not
write she came to the house. She laid in
wait at the church-door after all services.
Asa nuisance, she was a complete success.
One day she said : ‘ Why do you always
have your wife or sister in the room when
I call?’ With fearful audacity I replied:
‘ Miss Lucy, if you are in love with me. I
wish you would tell me so, and spare me
long interviews in future.’ Without a word
she bounced out of the room. Apparently
the cure was effected. In two days she
returned. She was a thorn in my side
while I stayed there, and a very ugly one,
too.”
OUTSIDE THE SURPLICE.
“ Did you tiud that it made a difference
to you when you had left the ministry—
that is, in regard to your friends?"’ queried
the reporter.
“ Certainly it did. Rumor had a thou
sand tongues to magnify my fault. Bish
ops passed me by with a dignified nod, and
the clergy lost all their cordiality. As for
the ladles, they-never forgave my aban
donment of the surplice |r t|e common
garments of mankind. Ui<b detr,friend, at
whose house I often stayed, never gave me
another invitation there, and scarcely
,seems to remember me when we meet.
Yet I remember going to her house, when
I went to lecture there, in her ljusliand's
absence, and being royally entertained.
After 1 had retired, there came a knock at
the door, and my hostess entered, lamp in
hand, tucked me snugly in. poured a goblet
of mulled wine /lown my throat, and
pressed a warm kiss on my lips as die bade
me good night. ? felt that the comforts of
this world were intended for the saints of
the Lord, and that I was one of them.
Only one who has been a clergyman knows
how terribly he falls in woman’s estima
tion when lie leaves the ministry for any
other profession.
“MY OWN IDEA OF CLERICAL PROPRIETY
is that the intercourse of a clergyman vith
his flock should he conducted rigorovsly
on the same principle as the gentlemen.
He need see a daughter only in her mother's
presence, and other ladies he can see at t ie
church itself, where everything is open to
the public inspection. Sickness is, of
course, another affair. Hut the unrestrain
ed roaming of a clergyman through Ins
flock at all hours and under any circum
stances breeds temptations that must in
fallibly try the weakness of poor human
nature.”
Hurt Comity lirecUr|'.,
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Ordinary —Fred. Strithriuton.
Clerk Superior Court • —(\ A. \Vt*bb.
Sheriff — W. A. Holland.
Tax Heceioer —J. M. Thornton.
Tax Collector —S. T. Fleming.
Treasurer —.J. (1. Itolio.
Surreyor —ll McLane.
<'arimer —lC. Phillips.
School Commissioner —Chan. XV. Seidel.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor —John 11. Skelton.
Secretary and Treasurer —XV. X". Holland.
Councihnrn —J. 11. Henson, John Peek, James XX".
Williams, J. 11. Scott.
Hurt County Religious Directory.
METHODIST.
Rev. XX'. T. Norman, I’astor.
Hrthesdfi —Ist Sabbath in oar.h Month.
Hartwell— j2nd “ and Saturday before.
Ml. /.ion —’2nd “ at 4 p. in.
Cnkeehury —3rd Sabbath in each month.
Providence —4th “
Rev. John QciRLAN. Pastor.
Fellotrship — Sabbath in each month.
lied wine —
Macedonia — “ at 4 p. m.
BAITIST.
Rev. 11. M. Barton. Pastor.
Sardis—- Ist Sabbat hand Saturday before, monthly.
Hartwell —oh “ * f" " it
Rev, .T. T. XV. .XMtUNoN, Pastor.
Milltown —2d Sabbath and Saturday before, monthly
Rev. L.XV. STKCHRNS. Pastor.
Hendry's —2d Sabbath and Saturday before, monthly
Rev. James H. MoM UI.i.F.N. Pastor.
Line —3rd Sabbath and Saturday before, monthly.
Heed Creek*— 4tli “ “ . .
Rev. I. 11. Goss. Pastor.
Cross Hoads —4th Sabbath and Saturday before.
Rev. John I). Adams. Pastor.
Cannon's —2d Sabbath and Saturday before, monthly
Rev. J. R. Eari.k, Pastor.
Sardis —2d Sabbath in each month.
ltev. Thomas Chymes.
Shoal Creek —2d Sabbath and Saturday before, mo'ly
VRESHYTEKIAN.
Kev. John Ji. Morton. Pastor.
J’lrasaiit Hill —3rd Sabbath in each month.
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