The question of going is for each to consider ; but
all who go must take all the burden that attends the
journey. So is it with the ministry. To change
denominations is to change the place and keep the
pain. What our Lord and his Apostles endured
must be the common lot of all who preach. We
wish human nature was better; but it is not. It is
hard to feel the want of appreciation — a whole
week spent on a good sermon, at which men nod

' and women go to sleep. But Paul preached to
drowsy ^ hearers. The trump of doom would not
keep some people awake. We are told that one
sleepy hearer under a sermon of St. Paul's fell
from a window and broke his neck. We have the

^ apostolic gift of putting people to sleep, but not
the gift to mend broken necks. I have seen men
asleep on the jury under the impassioned eloquence
of Eufus Choate. I saw a man fast asleep during
the singing of Jenny Lind, and he paid twenty-five
dollars for the choice of seats.
The ministry, as a profession, has its advantages.
It gives a noble social position from the start.
