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MANCHESTER WOMAN’S CLUB 
“Trp MInistry oF Mirth” SuBjEct 
oF LECTURE BY: Rev. W. H. 
BRANNIGAN. 
{ Bare Manchester Woman’s club held 
the seventh meeting of the season 
at the Congregational ch apel Tuesday 
afternoon with a large attendance. 
The President, Mrs. Carrie Knight, 
made one or two announcements of 
meetings and lectures to which the 
members of the club had been invited, 
and the Glee club opened the program 
by the singing of “Come Where My 
Love Lies Dreaming.” They gave as 
an encore, “A Bird in the Hand.” 
Mrs. Alfred Hooper was the accom- 
panist. 
The speaker of the afternoon was_ 
Rev. William H. Brannigan of Way- 
land, who delivered a bright and 
amusing lecture, entitled “The .Minis- 
try of Mirth.” It is seldom that a 
purely humorous address has as much 
to give its hearers as had that of Rev. 
Mr. Brannigan, and it is a conserva-. 
tive statement that he succeeded in his 
object, which was, as he frankly said, 
to entertain his listeners and to make 
them forget their troubles and per- 
plexities in these troublous and per. 
plexing times. — 
answered. 
At the outset the speaker averred 
that the sense of humor is a posses- 
sion for which to thank God, and that 
the ministry is rich in that possession. 
There are perils and dangers in laugh- 
ter, however, especially in the minis- 
try. It was in connection with this 
point that Mr. Brannigan told a story 
about Sidney Smith, ‘‘the mad wag,” 
of England, who had a brother a8 
sober as he was merry. The brother 
was also a clergyman and a very 
popular one, and of them both Smith 
said that they contradicted the laws 
of gravitation, for his brother had 
risen by his gravity, while he, him- 
self, had fallen by his levity. 
Henry Ward Beecher was one of 
the cheerful type of preachers and 
there are probably. more anecdotes — 
clustering about his head than about 
any other figure in the ministry. One 
Aas is told of an experience of the 
Brooklyn preacher when he went to 
New Haven to deliver an address at 
Yale. He dropped into a little barber 
shop and the barber observing that he 
was a preacher, although not recog- 
nizing him, asked, “Going to the lec- 
tuner” 
Wry: BRCeCHet ‘said, “Hm—who is 
going to speak?” “Henry Ward 
Beecher of Brooklyn,” the man_ 
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man, “I guess I will go.” “I hope you e! 
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will have to stand, ” was the barber’ Ss} 
next remark. KO dear,” “sighed - c 
Beecher, “that is just my luck, 1 ale. — 
ways have to stand when I hear that — 
man speak.” Henry Ward Beecher 
was foremost in chasing gloom out of © 
the somewhat morbid religion left us 
by our New England forebears; his 
was truly a ministry of mirth, 
Rev.. Edward T. ‘Taylor aebetter = 
known as Father Taylor, of the 
Sailor’s Bethel of Boston was also a 
humorist, although of a different — 
order. His humor, however, was — 
not merely to amuse, but also for the 
purpose of enforcing a moral lesson. 
One of the favorite stories told about 
this clergyman is that he liked to say 
that there were three kinds of poor,— 
the Lord’s poor, the devil’s poor and ~ 
the poor devils. The Lord looked af- 
ter his poor, the devil looked after his 
poor, but the poor devil had to look 
after himself. 
Of quite a different character was ~ 
the humor of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 
who was also a minister at one time. 
A story is told of a Second Adventist 
who was at some pains to inform — 
Theodore Parker and Emerson of the 
approaching end of the world, When 
Emerson was informed of the fact, — 
he shrugged his shoulders and said _ 
in his gentle way: “Well, never mind, 
we can do without it.” 
Phillips Brooks is said to have de- 
fined the difference between the — 
ancient and the modern church as foi- 
lows: The ancient church tried to — 
save its members from going to the 
lions; the modern church is content if 
it can save its members from going to 
the dogs. | ‘ = 
A. story of the career of Samuel 
Moody, at one time pastor at York, 
Maine, has. been wrongly” accredited % 
to Dwight Moody, the great evangel- 
ist. A certain congregation had ace . 
quired the habit, much more com 
then than now, of going 
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