The One Thing that did Not Change.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 181, 4 December 1886, Page 2

The One Thing that did Not Change.

The Rev.— _ (or "Father". , aP X ,waB, wa8 called) was life-Jong pastor of the Culc r ffa . tional Chutch in , i*a«sachuFe*<- H e waa a man of gieat eobriety of deportment yet was noted for a dry humour, vbich! though chiofly exercised in private 'r.me time* cropped out in public. Hie people werefond of him, and when the fiftie. h year of his ministry was 'Completed nj. A Iq a grand celebration in honour of the • \ent He preached a sermon on the occaein. la this sermon he made an extensive revn w of the half century that had passed em.-« his ordination. He spoke first of the char, ». es he had witnessed there in the town, ij waB a very different town from what it wo- when he came there. Then there was 0.,,v one houee that had a carpet, and no house that had a piano, or even so much as a mtk..{ -on &c, &c. Next he spoke of chanpen i.*, "the btate, illustrating in a variety of vvtye the contrast between the Maseachus.^f- o f former times and the Massachuser.te J the present. Then he spoke of the county m the same strain, and finally of the \, .irld, showiug how fifty years had in the <v t, o£ both wrought wonderful transform,)* ions 11 But," he added, " there is one thir v m y dear friends, that has not changed -' that through all *heee fifty years gone bv nas been the same. Empires, as I haip described, have risen and fallen ; kings have been born, and reigned, and died ; great men have had their day, and pace. h, \ rom the stage, to be succeeded by othet y reat men, who in their turn have sunk f.om view. There is one thing, I repeal . ihat has not changed [pause and stillnet- ] and that is my salary. It waa cix hm,,U-ed dollars fifty years ago; it is six hun-ired dollars now.— " Harper's Magazinr- for September."