Show PET PEEVES OF PREACHERS mon alen of the cloth have their troubles trouble just as have their lower placed brethren I 1 have met a number of types in my ministerial mInIster fil meanderings ings let me quote you a few those hardheaded hard headed gentlemen who call upon me to display my backbone by giving them thein my active support to la their pet quarrels the backsliding back sliding member who tears fears lest I 1 be not religious minded enough for his people the loud and insistent propagandist who thinks I 1 am insincere because I 1 do not shout our common beliefs from every street corner the man who never attends a service who wonders if my sermons are up cp to the mark the person who sees nie me only luring during meals and who therefore assumes that I 1 have nothing to do but est eat the fastidious critic but slovenly sloT eDly dresser who objects to the shape of my shoe and the length of my coat those who believe they have the right to give we me orders on the ground that they supply some of the money that pays my salary the mothers who think it undignified nt of me to seat myself near girls other than their own daughters the near flatterer who thinks my sermons good and wonders where I 1 got them indianapolis star |