Life — March 31, 1910 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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OUR WIVES LIFE READ THE OTHER DAY ABOUT A MIGAMIST WHOSE FIFTY WIVES WERE APTER TIM, THIS PICTURE 1S MERELY A WARNING TO OTHPRS—AND TO HIMSELF, A Nice (?) Distinction Why Editors Are Unhappy ER son had married a fair lady friend, ECAUSE the largest part of their activities consists in The sort young fellows don’t write home about. expressing regrets to contributors. Ode ¥oorhed's "Le may Sone Hght, dede, Inthe end.” Because the reader who is not pleased makes more noise She said: “ The Lord's ways are past finding out than the one who is, The wotherveigheds“" Bat onehlap‘eannor diend: Because if they are radical they are accused of being o cranks, and if they are not radical they are accused of being The woman's not respectable!" “No doubt, owned by the trusts. . The comforter smiled back, “ but then, she’s—well, Because it's easy to get advertisers if they have readers, but they can't get readers just because they have advertisers Because they never know how an article will be receiv until it is published, and then it’s too late. My dear, she's perfectly presentable “The Graveyards of Ministers” Because they have been taught that the pen is mightier HAT ails New York as a field of ministerial labor? It than the sword and they are never able to prove it has been called the grav rd of ministers. The min- isters whose premature collapses have given it that name have had charge of the strongest churches, and have had, as a rule, OUT of the fallnesscof the packer the ‘mouth keepath quiet: liberal salaries fairly sufficient for their support even in New York. Yet the list of Protestant clergymen who have been used up in a few years by the demands of big New York churches is rather appalling, and the greatest churches when their pulpits become vacant have notable difficulty in filling them to their satisfaction. Of course the work of a big New York church is hard. Besides preaching it includes the management of a consider- able corporation, demanding therefore unusual executive gifts besides the qualities of a student and a preacher. The gifts of language, reflection and discourse do not often come in combination with a “considerable gift of executive direction, and when they do, to exercise an equipment of talents so di- verse and in a way conflicting calls for an amount of energy anid system that only belongs to exceptional men. The great lawyers of New York are suci men; but the ministry in this generation does not secm to get very many of them. New York probably get its share, but it does not seem to get enough. The trouble then scems to be that the Protestant ministry in this country at this time is not attractive enough to get the men of the exceptional combination of talent and power that the big New York churches require We have not determined as yet precisely what ought to be done about it, but something needs to be done. The predica- ment of such churches as the Fifth Avenue and the Brick (Presbyterian), the St. Nicholas (Dutch Reformed), and Grace Church is disquicting even to the secular interests. Minister- ing to the spiritual needs of the affluent in New York seems to be particularly exhausting. yet the town seems an attract held of endeavor for men rockribbed enough to he fit for it. “4 JUG OF WINE AND THOU comicbooks.com