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A CLERGYMAN’S TEMPTATIONS. . ..... , —_ 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|'., COI.VTV OFKICKKH. 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. All white ministers in the County, of every denomination, are requested t. send in their appoint ments for publication. .Vo charge whatever. HIM HOTEL FOR. JACKSON AXI) BROAD STREETS, AUGUSTA, GA. Thoroughly Renovated. Remodeled and Newly FurniNhcd. 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