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Show PREACHED HIS BEST CANDIDATE THOUGHT HE MADE AN IMPRESSION. But He Should Have Heard the Comments of the Flock He Was 8o Anxious to Shepherd. Tho candidate has dono his best. Ho believed that It had made a fieep Impression on tho church, before which ho was "candldatlng." He might havo changed his mind had ho heard the following comments on his effort by the people as they passed out of church or lingered for the afternoon aft-ernoon tea sort of chatter that obtains ob-tains In some of our modern churches: "Well,. how did you like him?" "Fairly well, but bo ain't no way up to whnt dear Pastor Elder was." "Did you notlco that ho said 'oyo-thcr?' 'oyo-thcr?' I always hate to hoar a minister min-ister Fny tb-t." "Ills dellv'ry wa'n't none too good I could not make out some of his words." "1 didn't J-iat like him having tint pink rnso In his buttonhole. Looked n little vain, to me. I like to see n minister min-ister dross rather soberly." "Didn't hi' cont lit uwfully? : 1 yoi: notlco thnt tho sleeves woro tco long? And bis trousers were too short. I think that n minister's dress hns n lot to do with the Impression ho makes." "I can't bear to soo a man with his hair parted In the middle, and If be should be called to us I wouldn't make no bones of telling him so." "Wasn't some of that poetry he quoted beautiful? I do love to hoar a minister express himself In poetry." "Seemed to mo he wasn't very deep . When you come to think It over, he didn't say much I hadn't heard beforo." be-foro." "Seemed to mo ho was rather sing cong in his delivery Didn't Pastor Fourtherly havo n beautirul delivery? Ho never snld much of anything, but his delivery was so beautiful that 1-3 held you with It." "I didn't like the way be hammored the pulpit wl h his fist. I llko to seo a minister calm and dignified In tho pulpit pul-pit Always makes more of n lusting Impression." "Did you notice tho way ho began so .iiany his sentences with 'And'? And I was just reading the other day thnt one should never begin a sentence sent-ence with 'and.' " "I didn't like the way ho rolled up his eyes. It seemed so sort of sanctimonious." sanc-timonious." "It didn't seem to me there was much real spirituality in his sermon, and I don't llko a sermon unless It Is downright spiritual." "I don't believe that ho Is the man for us." "Seems to me that he's better suited suit-ed to Eome church whero they don't really expect much of the minister." "If they called him I think thnt 1 should tuke my lettor to somo other church." 'Wasn't ho just splendid I think his sermon was Just lovely! Scorns to me ho Is just tho man wo aro looking look-ing for!" "I wouldn't want It said as coming from mo, but 1 havo hoard that ho didn't resign of his own accord tho Inst pastorate he had. If his resignation resigna-tion wns nsked for. seems to me wo ought to know the reasons why. -Puck. |