Show I OUT OF PLACE J A dispatch tells of ft a pre preachers preacher's hers her's ad advertisement inthe in inthe inthe the East wanting a a. pulpit to preach in during the hot lot months Certainly a preacher has as much right to o advertise fora for a pu pulpit pit in which to to- save souls as s a shoemaker has to adv advertise for a place in which he can repair air soles But alt there thele i is a difference difference all the e same and the preacher who has to advertise for a parish ought to seek some other occupation I Jesus Christ Christ never put such a want ad in any I paper in Jerusalem or Capernium or or Damascus He c could uld find a pulpit anywhere in the sands of the valley valley val- val ley eyon on the m mount any mount any p place ace was good enough for him lim And if he had no no shoes he was content to g go o barefoot Again Agai he lie did not claim to be a graduate from any theological school he school he merely went bout about t doing good The more education a preacher has th the e better letter but belt it is not an essential Father Fathel Taylor when he took charge of the seamen's chapel in Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton could not read He was wont to have a friend frien d read the Bible to him until he struck uck a paragraph h that suited him and then he proceeded ded to preach And the profoundest scholars and most eloquent speakers that filled New Engl England at the time thronged ged ed t to he hear r him im and were were spellbound u d at hi his s marvelous and convincing oratory But it may be said All men are not natural or orators tors True enough hut but real r al oratory is not essential essential essential es es- to a cl clergyman It It helps But a a. preachers preacher's influence d does es not come nearly so much from his head lead as from his heart A A. preacher with a good gift sift g of or of oratory and a fine education often fails He t always fails unless his heart is all involved unless 1 lesi his ais highest dream is to be of service to his fellowman fellowman fellow- fellow m man n regardless of himself And d the ma man who does not want more to direct his fellowmen into a better life than to secure for himself a a comfortable place r ray y be o a g goodman d man and may ay do a great deal oi Qi good in III the world but he will never be a successful preacher Let this advertising preacher preacher go out among the poor and give his whole le life to their service service ser ser- vice and h he may never be a St St. Patrick but his reward reward reward re re- ward will certainly come |