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able summer resort not a thousand miles from 

 New York, because he found that his love of 

 working his own garden was looked upon with 

 surprise, to use no stronger term, and he was 

 made to feel that his parishioners considered the 

 dignity of their church endangered by their 

 pastor's curious fancy for digging. In England 

 it had been his custom to raise his own vegeta- 

 bles. Here it was not thought dignified for the 

 pastor to work like a common laborer, hang- 

 ing his coat on a bramble bush, and one of his 

 vestry-men hinted that the church might be 

 able to squeeze out enough money to provide a 

 gardener for the pastor. The pastor did not 

 want a gardener, and he gave way to some one 

 else who would keep his coat on and his hands 

 clean. It may be said that instead of resign- 

 ing his place, this victim of the Philistines 

 should have preached a few sermons upon the 

 dignity of manual labor, recalling the fact that 

 Christ was a carpenter; but the depth of such 

 prejudice is beyond the plummet of argument. 

 The commonplace mind is never tolerant of 

 other views. For years manual labor, because it 

 does not bring in much money, has been looked 

 upon as the work of the inferior man ; the am- 



