DON'TS FOR MINISTERS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 May 1913, Page 4

DON'TS FOR MINISTERS.

An English paper gives the following its part of a charge delivered at an installation h.v a Detroit pastor. It is full of suggestion:— Don't study without prayer. "Don't pray without study. Don t feed people with nnbakod dough. Don't toll nil you know in one sermon. Don't mistake philosophy for Christianity; cant for pioty, noise, for zeal; or crowds for success. Don't mistake length for profundity. nor brevity for wit. ■ Don 't lash the hack of the sinner instead of the hack of the sin. Don't offer to other people manna which have not tasted yourself. Don t let your harp have onlv one string. Don't try to make bricks without straw. More Don'ts for the New Pastor. Don t imagine that your predecessor accomplished nothing nor knew [ nothing. Tlio probability is that hi I was ahout your size. ! Don't he jealous of him. You will he glad to have them speak well of you when you have gone. Don t expect to wort a revolution m six months. Great.bodies move slowly and small ones are often still more slow. Don't attempt a revolution. To got this world a little nearer right is about all one man can expcct. _ Don t publish that your congregations are doubled, prayer meeting quadrupled, etc. If they are, be thankful, but publication may he premature. Tf all reports from the first six months were true and datios maintained the pro'blem of "the evangelism of tho world in this generation would ho solved in two yearc or less.

Don s imagine that the new place is so very new. There will he the same old difficulties. Folks are folks everywhere. Don t issue bulletins of victory 011 the clay of assuming command. HOW A JAPANESE BECAME A CHRISTIAN.

Among the very best writings from the gifted pen of that eminent Christian, tho Rev. Wayland Hoyt. was a little story concerning a young Japanese student who had heard of the "Beautiful Life." He askocl the minister to direct him how lio might find it. Mr Hoyt urged him to read the Bible; but the searcher wanted something else. He had read a little of the .Bible and also other good books, he a aid, hut* he would not be satisfied until be had seen n living example. He had known one old man, a carpenter,

who livod not for himself, But wlio was continually planning and 'working to 6ervo others, and that man wore a smiling face and was happy. But it was only tho merest glance of the "Beautiful Life" that the student got from this experience. He would now seo the "Beautiful Life" in all its fulness, no lcjss would satisfy his earnest longing. Thon, for the first time, ho "was led to read tho New Testament, which he had never touched in Ins previous readings. Many weeks after ho saw Mi Hoyt again. Ilis face was shining, his voice vibrant with delight. "I have found it!" ho oried. "Tho Beautiful Life! I have found Jceuß.!"