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Show Pampered Paupers. A venerable clergyman, who is chiefly occupied by the cares of family real estate es-tate in this city, was heard to remark to a brother clergyman on an elevated railway rail-way train that there were sixty clergymen clergy-men of his denomination living in New York without a ministerial charge. Some dally with life insurance work, others dabble in literature, while not s few live on their wits. The speaker attributed at-tributed this spiritual surplus to the mistaken zeal of societies for the increase of the ministry, which offer to impoverished impover-ished young men a support through college col-lege and the theological seminary, and thus bribe them to take np a calling for which they have no taste and are neither morally nor intellectually fitted, . i "It is a free lunch route to the altar," be said, "and nothing better could be expected of it than that it should produce pro-duce a race of clerical bummers. The pampered pauper finds too late that he has made a mistake in climbing up into the pulpit, whereas if he was really fitted for the work ha would have managed man-aged to get into it without anybody'i help." New York Snn. ! |