Pastoral Sketches

This book is a collection of biographical sketches of people we meet in churches everyday. While a true sketch is done with a pencil, these are done with a wide brush to catchthe caricatures of ourselves. It really is a unique look into the lives of church-goers, and while humorous at times, it is also far too true to be entirely comfortable.



From the author's preface:
The book is a transcript of human character, a description of a part of the life procession that is seen moving in the ecclesiastical world or that is beheld from the Church by the ministerial eye.

So the volume was composed for a purpose; that it might accomplish good for others. The author feels that the book has a mission, so he opens the window and sends it forth over the waves of the world. Whether it returns with the olive branch or never comes back, it is attended with the prayer of the writer that it may cheer and brighten the hearts of thousands of readers, and be a blessing wherever it goes.



The Table of Contents are as follows:
CHAPTER 1: REMINISCENCES OF CERTAIN PREACHERS
CHAPTER 2: BAPTISMAL INCIDENTS
CHAPTER 3: THE INTERRUPTED MARRIAGE CEREMONY
CHAPTER 4: THE INDEFINITELY POSTPONED MARRIAGE
CHAPTER 5: SOME FUNERAL SCENES
CHAPTER 6: THE CHOIR
CHAPTER 7: STREET PREACHING
CHAPTER 8: A REMARKABLE MISSIONARY
CHAPTER 9: CERTAIN EXPRESSIONS AND PRONUNCIATIONS IN PULPIT AND PEW
CHAPTER 10: HOW PREACHERS ARE “TAKEN IN”
CHAPTER 11: THE CONFERENCE LETTER
CHAPTER 12: THE CONFERENCE COLLEGE
CHAPTER 13: A MARTYR
CHAPTER 14: GUY
CHAPTER 15: LITTLE JACK
CHAPTER 16: EMMA C.
CHAPTER 17: PROFESSOR S___.
CHAPTER 18: A PHOTOGRAPH OF A CLASS OF CONFERENCE UNDERGRADUATES
CHAPTER 19: THE SICKNESS OF ZIUNNE
CHAPTER 20: THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE