Burdette’s Resolutions.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 456, 22 March 1890, Page 6

Burdette’s Resolutions.

I will wear easier shoes than I did last year.

If I find that I have to wear spectacles, I will.

I will nob read one-half the advertisements in the Sunday papers. I will think less about money, and reach out after more of it.

I will remember only the good things in the sermon.

I will try bo do without the things which I really do not need and can’t get, and give the money to the Missionary Union. I will not envy the poor their possessions. If I have time I will get up at the ringing of the rising bell. Under any circumstances I will always arise before breakfast.

I will not believe anything I read in the newspapers until I see it contradicted the following day. When I find I cannot do as I please I will do as I have to.

I will (try to) answer ail my letters. I will give up lying, even though I have to sell my trout-rod and dog. I will endeavour to take more interest in base-ball. I will follow the advice of some eminent clergyman and go to the theatre oftener, in order to counteract the evil influences of the prayer-meeting.

I will not indorse for anyone except members in good standing of the Astor and Vanderbilt families, and 1 11 even then be a little particular as to which member and for how much.

I will not be foolishly timid or reticent about- asking other people to endorse for me; that’s altogether quite a different thing entirely. If any man offers to discuss Civil Service Reform, infant baptism or Browning with me, and nobody is around, and the place is lonely, and the hour late, and I think I can do it, I will maul him so that he can’t think of anything but court plaster and arnica for three weeks. As much as lieth in me, I will leave peaceably with the choir, the Finance Committee*the Pew Committee and - the trustees.