Show how it started by JEAN NEWTON CALLING HIM THE PASTOR PASTOR 1 a prosaic sounding word and one in whose story we would look for the severe flavor of early religion rather than the element of poetry let such Is the persever ance of language e rarely find what we expect and in the origin of this terra it 1 used today as another name for the minister we find no thou bots nots theology but a po betic metaphor pastor Is derived from the latin pastor which comes from meaning to pasture or to feed and who would not find poetry in the term which describes the minister as one who will feed us it we will but go to him one may presume that it Is hardly necessary to explain the metaphorical ph orical reference spiritual feeding of his floca |