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April 26, 1924 
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Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks 
By Rev. George B. Gilbert 
Wilkes-Barre. —Here the Parson is, 
way up in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Up is 
right, as it is one long climb up here, 
amidst most beautiful scenery. How the 
double tracks of the Lehigh and New 
Jersey Central curve and wind along the 
Lehigh River all the way up. The Par¬ 
son had a full day—the first one of a 
week’s speaking trip out here. He was 
12 hours on the journey here, then a bite 
and 33 miles in a flivver to the first meet¬ 
ing ; part of the way over terrible roads. 
This first place seemed typical of so 
many—far too many. A mere handful 
in church of a Sunday morning, no Sun¬ 
day school, no social life, no playing to¬ 
gether, nothing for boys or for girls. A 
minister blowing in and out again from 
some outside town, coming to preach and 
never staying to practice. Havir.g no 
basement or parish house or Grange hall 
here this large church could easily be 
divided off by curtains and made into a 
community house. It would be a shame 
to saddle the expense of more buildings 
on this community with the cost of up¬ 
keep and all. But at the mention of re¬ 
consecrating the building to the welfare 
of God’s children for whom Christ died 
—one woman at least had an expression 
of a thousand thunder clouds. We no¬ 
ticed a gang of young fellows get up and 
go out a little before meeting closed. We 
one condition, and that is, that you hang 
me first.” 
Public Halls. —A type of Grange 
hall or church parish house frequently 
found in Luzerne County was quite new 
to the Parson. It would be a two-story 
affair, with the hall upstairs and horse 
and car sheds right under the hall. These 
sheds would not occupy all the first story, 
generally about two-thirds of it, the rest 
including the stairway and perhaps a 
furnace room. In this way the sheds 
really cost nothing at all except the 
boarding on three sides. Any hall might 
just as well be up one flight as on the 
ground floor. At one place the man 
wanted to see the Parson and ask his ad¬ 
vice about building a new hall. He said 
there were four halls right around there 
now. Yet they were losing their young 
people all the time. The movies and the 
dance halls in the neighboring city at¬ 
tracted them. Just now two of these 
Summer outdoor dancing pavilions were 
being built right in that vicinity—yet 
there were four halls right there. Even 
the Granges here do not have a bit of 
dancing after the Grange meeting. So 
this man says that now they are going 
to work to raise money and build still 
another hall where they can have moving 
pictures and dancing under their own 
supervision. The Parson does not know 
Picking up potatoes is not so bad with plenty of company—Shelley and “Ta” are 
on the left. 
got finally started towards home—a flat 
tire. A brand-new tack was sticking 
right in middle of shoe and tube. Such 
places need a social life so much. No 
games, no playing together, no eating to- 
gether, no community spirit. At this 
place were very few subscribers to The 
R. N.-Y., while at the next two places 
nearly every family "seemed to take it. 
The people said this was because at the 
local fairs in the latter place, there had 
been a representative of the paper who 
took subscriptions. 
Tiie Difference. —At one place where 
we went there had been working for some 
six years a broad-minded, public-spirited 
minister. This minister cared more for 
boys and girls and men and women than 
ho did for carpets and chairs and ancient 
church traditions. There was such a fine 
spirit among the people here—such a 
•fine crowd to talk to. So many had come 
to hear their former pastor—for he was 
the other speaker with the Parson—that 
they could not be seated in the hall. This 
minister used to have the boys come Sat¬ 
urday afternoons for ball games and 
athletics, etc. He found some of the men 
complained that their boys played ball on 
Sunday ; then when they wanted the boys 
to work on Saturday afternoon he told 
the parents that their boys had to play 
ball some time, it was their inherent 
right, and that they could let them come 
Saturday or shut up about their playing 
on Sunday, so they let them come Satur¬ 
day. This minister would have a supper 
for the boys after the ball game, and 
then a social for all of the parish on Sat¬ 
urday evening. If you ever hear a min¬ 
ister fussing because the young people 
don’t go to church, you just ask him if 
he gives the young people a fine social on 
every Saturday night, with plenty of 
snappy active games and lively music? 
He will say he has to get ready for Sun¬ 
day on Saturday night, but you tell him 
that if he cannot get up a sermon in six 
whole days he had better let it go al¬ 
together. Then too if he spent Saturday 
afternoon and evening with his young 
people he might find many things of real 
interest to preach about. 
Hang Me First. —The amount of time 
wasted composing dull sermons is some¬ 
thing worse than tragic. Wasn't it 
Beecher who used to say it was aston¬ 
ishing how many people went to church 
in spite of the sermon? The Parson has 
no small sympathy for the man who was 
going to be hung and his minister being 
present asked him as he stood on the gal¬ 
lows if he had anything to say. He said : 
“No,” he had nothing to say. “Then.’ 
said the minister. “Do you mind if I say 
something?” “Not in the least, not in 
the least, talk all you want to, but on 
a Grange in Connecticut that does not 
have dancing after the meeting. Prac¬ 
tically every Grange man the Parson met 
on this trip remarked the same thing. 
“Somehow our young people do not seem 
interested in the Grange any more, and 
very few of them come.” 
New Jersey Again. — On his way 
home from Pennsylvania, the Parson 
went down into New Jersey. Not being 
allowed so much as a Virginia reel for 
a whole week proved a terrible damper 
for the Parson’s system. His joints 
were getting incredibly stiff; it was most 
as bad as rheumatism. But they got lim¬ 
bered up down in Jersey all right. It was 
a great social we had down there on that 
Saturday night. Some folks say you 
mustn’t have things going on Saturda> 
nights, as the people will be too tired to 
get out on Sunday morning. In this case 
the people must have gotten rested, for 
they certainly all piled out to church the 
next morning. Such a fine congregation 
as we had; the church was practically 
solid full, and so many men—more men 
folks than women folks. The Parson 
hopes to come down and supply this 
church—it is a Presbyterian church—for 
a Sunday in August. The whole family 
will come down and we will pull off 
some great socials with the whole orches¬ 
tra to furnish music. We will put up 
in the parsonage here and it will be a 
real vacation. You remember that church 
where the Parson talked out both the 
minister and his wife. Well, the next 
Sunday, the superintendent of the Sun¬ 
day school (a good friend of the Par¬ 
son’s) kindly remembered the Parson and 
his mission work in his prayer before the 
school. But he got a call-down from that 
minister all right. “To think you had 
the nerve,” said he, “to pray for that 
man.”' ??o the Parson got beyond pray¬ 
ing for already. 
Hopeful Signs. —As some one has 
said, there is really a reformation going 
on in the c-hurch today. Here and there 
a church branches out and begins to 
prosper. It is when a church begins to 
care more for boys than for benches, 
more for people than for pews. When a 
church really tackles the problems of 
human wreckage that are all around it 
instead of twaddling about ordinances 
and traditions and consecrating buildings 
to God who doesn’t need them instead 
of dedicating them to God’s children 
who do need them, when a church does 
that, it will grow ; there are no ifs nor 
ands about it. A Methodist parson from 
Maine writes, telling that the place where 
he is was a dull place to live in six 
months before but now he has or is 
about to take in 16 young people into the 
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