A R IMITIVE PASTOR.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1579, 4 March 1887, Page 4

A R IMITIVE PASTOR.

A late minister of Crosamichael, in Galloway, wu one of those primitive pastors, formerly Damerous in Scotland, who did not disdain to illustrate their subjects with snch images and allusions as were within the comprehension of their homely hearers. Jn fact his seimons were very much in the style of an easy conversation, interspersed with occasional parentheses, applicable to individuals, or to the circumstances which arose before his eyes in the church, as the sleeping of the aged and the fat, or the ogling of the young and the amoroup, or aDy impropriety of a similar venial nature. To give the reader an idea of this gentleman's manner in the pulpit, we may recount what he said one Sunday morning, in reading a verse from the book of Exodus. " And the Lord said unto Moses—steek that door; I'm thinking, if ye had so sit beside the door yoursel', ye wadna be sae ready leaving it open; it was just by that door that Yedam Tamson, the bellman, gat his death o' cauld; and I'm sure, honest man, be didna let it stay muckle open. And the Lord said unto Moses—put oot that doug, wha is't that brings dougs to the kirk yaff-yafflng ? Let me never see ye bring your dougs here ony mair, or 111 put you and them baith oot And the Lord said unto Moses—l see a man aneath that laft wi' his hat on; I'm sure ye're clean oot o' the soogh o' the door; keep aff your bannat, Tarnmas; and if your bare pow be cauld, ye maun just get a grey worset wig like mysel'; they're no sae dear; plenty o' them at Bob Gillespie's for ten pence." He again began the verse, and at last made out the instructions for Moses in a manner more strictly •Mordant with the text and witn decency,