Show POPULAR AUTHORS the preacher finds ready sale for his books in his parish bent on an errand ot mercy a city prowler made his way into a strange neighborhood what impressed him most was the bookstore windows in every one for blocks around were stacks of a new book he had never heard of by a writer of whom he bad levei heard who la this man he finally asked why Is he so popular hereabouts he la the pastor of the presby terlan church down in the next block said the stationer every bookseller in the neighborhood Is making a specialty of his book that Is the usual way of doing things when a clerga man brings out a new book anybody else might appear n the publishers catalogue every month without arous ing local pride but with the preachers it is different when a minister turns author that old saw about the prophet being without honor in his own coun try is disproved with a vengeance every spring there Is a considerable literary output by the pastors of new york churches tho first place where these volumes are put on sale la the bookstores near the church where the minister preaches and usually the largest sales aro made there |