| Show WHAT ABOUT MINISTRY 2 Z NEED BRAINS FOR SUCCESS Thera is a thrill I in the power to help people 11 i You k a-k I j 1 3 S 4 Jp ny fly Rr REV J N r FlEECE President Pastor It If you think or your boy thinks that he ho should be bo it tr minister It Is i well that there should hould be a clear understanding ot of certain things It will wilt mean hard work both day and night Tho world does not need ministers who have an a developed developed over root ot of laziness It will ivill take tako uncommon ability f for r people In lii a community need to have a 0 minister who possesses brains and personality as ns well as goodness goodness It will Involve long and careful preparation 1 A short cut to the ministry Is to be avoided 11 as liS truly as a short-cut short to surgery The chances are good that It wilt will mean comparative poverty rather than considerable wealth No o man deserves to succeed or orwill orwill orwill will succeed in the ministry who makes money getting his object DEPTH OI 01 OP It If your boy has not enough brains to become a 11 lawyer on abil ability ity enough to succeed In then in the name of ot religion keep him out ot of o the ministry But Dut It If ho lie has enough robust manhood enough of pur- pur purpose purpose pur purpose pose enough personality and ond pow pow- power power power er to succeed in a dozen other oilier call call- callIngs callings ings thon then It Is possible that he be may become qualified to bo be a worthy minister tt tf the gospel A boy who has not mischief enough ever to 10 do wrong probablY lacks lacs life to do much good Adolescent piety over is no sign of a divine lne call to this profession rhe normal rather than the ab- ab abnormal abnormal ab abnormal normal Is n II qualification qualification tion A good healthy religIous life lICe on the part vart of o your boy Is In larGe degree produced by the example of othis his hii parents At any ony rate In the thelong thelong thelong long run It will have iti it J final In- In In Influence licence fluence S You should strive to Imbue him himy iy y l precept and with those flue fino qualities which ichic's are universal universal- universally universally ly Iy desired absolute honesty clean clean- cleanness cleanness cleanness ness of ot mind consideration for tor others a n spirit ot of o co operation co-operation co operation And and willingness to sacrifice for tor the common good CATION TIO Give him tho the best education he heI I can get and ond use a n good goot preparatory preparatory preparatory tory courso course for tor Co c ego a n good cot cot- college col college lege course preferably In the lib lib- liberal libera lib liberal era eral arts orts and a 11 three or tour four four ear course of of Instruction In the tho best theological seminary you ou can find This Involves about seven years ot of study beyond the high school period It if ho lie Is worth ho probably can earn part of ot his way ivay during this period and can corn com command com command mand scholarship aid from various Institutions In every denomination den there Is large opportunity for capable earnest well qualified men A good living Is to be bo had Imme Imme- Immediately Immediately Immediately at the tho close ot their studies There Is always room at the top POWER POWEll TO HELP The salaries of ct preachers like those of ot teachers are not large It is true that not a II few tew men In our country as a whole receive as S high a salary as ten twelve and fifteen thousand dollars a II year These same men in certain other professions probably would earn times these theo amounts Most ministers have been able to live with considerable comfort to educate their children and to provide reasonably for tor old age Our greatest cc compensation measured how how- however however however ever is not to be measured by tl- tl fi financial returns but In terms of personal joyIn satisfaction there la Ia a jo Joy In the tho work a thrill in the tho power to help people a spiritual satis satis- satis satisfaction satisfaction faction In the ministry ot f religion which money annot measure Happy the man whose whoso life lICe Is a success In this high calling |
