Show POPULAR LArl AUTHORS the preacher Preach ci finds ready sale for his books in his parish bent on an errand of mercy a city prowler made his way into a strange neighborhood what impressed him most was the bookstore ivin windows dows in every one for blocks around yere were stacks of a now new book he had never hoard heard of by a writer of whom ho he had never heard who Is this man ie he finally asked why is ho he so popular hereabouts ile he Is the pastor of the presbyterian church down in the next block said the stationer every bookseller in the neighborhood Is making a specialty of his book that Is tho the usual way of doing things when a clergyman brings out a new book anybody else might appear in fir the publishers catalogue every month without arousing local pride but with the preachers it is different when a minister turns author that old saw sav about the prophet being without honor in his own coun try is disproved with a vengeance every spring there la Is a considerable literary output by the tha pastors of new york churches the first place where those these volumes are put on sale Is the bookstores near the church whore the minister preaches and usually the largest large st sales are made there |