Show I 1 I 1 politics ios aud and the pulpit I 1 I 1 1 1 the I 1 independent 1 0 f naw york edited by rev mr fietcher fie echer the clergy in thiea thesal e days are favored witt with entirely too much faem publicans public ans th the press an and uthe effa era a as sto to what thy they ought and ight not to preach bor instance our wonder is ia not that i ministers pini do not preach better bette rbt but it thi thai t they prea preach eli at ill all A diffident nj young man and all young pien aen I 1 a are r e diffident with a subtle conscience balanced like scales in 0 a mint on 04 a aja 9 fine an edge eda that a mote will turn it how shall he ever kaw knel whis his own mind amidst advice that is ia not only so multitudinous i in a item items but so conflicting and contradictory our impression is that a young minister should put cotton into his eairs ears not into conscience his then in ih the exer exercise pise ot common sense sense preach in sueh a way as in his circumstances will do bot the li work jor for which pr preaching was wa a i instituted n we have po no doubt that a rigorous landlord baring sharked shacked it all the week screwing and d gri griping i ing i among his tenants would be better e pleased r mod on sunday to doze chrol an able gospel sermon ou on divine divin mysteries thin than to be kept kent awake by a practical sermon that among other things set or toe duties of af a christain landlord A bro bib ro k ker kercho 6 rw who ho hils has gambled on a magnificent scale all I 1 the week apes aos not go toi to church to have his practical swindling analyzed and measured by the new Te testament at spirit catechism is is what he wants doctrine aito i to his taste A mercha har fit chose whose juat bale of am smuggled U Z g led abol 9 safely stored ad an on saturday night and hi his I 1 b brother ra aber M merchant who on that sa same pie day swore 1 afaf j 1 a invoice dburl I 1 fir oa 01 the custom ajo housa they go to to church to hear bear a verinon sermon on faith on angels 1 on the he resura they have nothing ini invested ested ip in t tho 40 jq subjects they expect the minister to be bold and alij orthodox abuaf he be wants respectable merchants t to q pay anil dia pew pevy rents rent let him no not t vulgarize the pulpit by in traducing questions A christian b brother ans largely in w a distillery I 1 and is clamorous against lottino lofting down the puit to th the e vulgarity algar ay of tem temperance r 4 sermons q another ni man ap babi ba p tax letb titles ind and adga noss bloat t all 11 the t week ek to S see e e w who lupea can n besl be slap j I 1 ve bed 1 outdo out of a lot 0 11 A X ined mechanic 11 UW idt eltes hii hia craft 4 wah 1 f h tai tle e I 1 unscrupulous I 1 aws appliance af pf ev every cry mean 14 that fila will win vin he too tod wants doctrine on the sabbath Sab bathy not these secular uta ions ons men alen wish two departments in life the Ahe secular and the religious between them a high walland alland op opa qu quito is to be built they wish to do just what they please for f or six long days I 1 then stepping th the other side of th the a wall they wish the minister to assuage their fears to comfort their conscience and furnish I 1 I 1 them a clear cleaf ticket and ids insurance urance fo for i r be heaven 11 by bv sucha shrewd management 1 out our modern financiers are determined to show I 1 that a christien christian can cain serve two misters masters both 1 god and M mammon aih inon at the same time 1 I |