Show ministers not deadheads tho the recent controversy over the propriety ot of a ministers mini luiB bringing suit buit for the payment ol of funeral fees mow a T troy preacher to remark that hollas ho has attended atten I 1 ea several funerals and taken many hard colds ila as a bonse qu quencie encia riding several miles in extreme extrema heat beat and extreme cold through wind and storm many daja dais of 0 time and often paying something for or traveling el esiena out see tint but liia his never received a peony for or such services nothing having ever been offered ofle red in ia more than three or four our cines cases and nine tenths ol of the tha funerals Iune iala were vero of persons persona who wale not members of lis hia own church and their surviving friends would not even do him tho the com compliment I 1 to go and bear ua him preach or 01 any other minister for that matter the preacher continues cosi in ia this thib indignant strain etrain 1 I recall one instance in stanca ins neighboring rity city when I 1 was VM sent bent for in ohp middle ol of the night to visit A 8 man who was wan supposed to bo be dying he kept me by hit his bedside it largo larga part of two dale daja tad ond laig hta and at length I 1 wont to at tola his in a town some boma twenty miles milea STAY la in another I 1 was vw sent bent lor for to soothe a crazy man and actually spent a whole day with him when then 1 I was waa moro more than thai half nick bleb myself tay toli trying with same success imcoe sn to catch bli bit mind and aad turn tura his bh thoughts from his bis sille Bil monts cuts I 1 am boat beat for by wives to lefohn drunken hus hns landa hands sent for to husbands and wives that have parted gersoni I 1 nover never saw and know nothing about sent tor for to help people got get work and tor for many other which I 1 will flot enumerate tor for services of this kind I 1 luva never a penny cald add never desired 1 it I 1 do not refer to these matters to complain comp liin viat t bat the rain min later inter is ia called upon for far such bach services I 1 lam am glad to perform then them without nit honl pay and am aiu cone olous that many persona who aro are not minia tero perform per torra like services it is ant delight to help suffering offering humanity la ill every poe way I 1 only didik you to understand that ministers perform far more such gratuitous sery leps thou any other clasi of our citizens awl dually lettl glas nt I 1 we worry it grest many hopeful cu cullee without pay 11 and standard newport vermont |