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THE CITY SIDE; OR, Passages from a Pastor's Portfolio.

GATHERED BY

CARA BELMONT.

"At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray."

BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON AND COMPANY. NEW YORK: J. C. DERBY.

1854.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & Co., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Stereotyped by HOBART & ROBBINS, BOSTON.

PREFACE.

A WHILE ago, the authoress of this work spent a month in the study of a clergyman, who was, at the time, absent on a missionary tour. Her duty was to transcribe certain documents which were to enter into an historical work, which has not yet been published. While thus engaged, she found the port-folio of the minister, in which were a number of facts on which she has based the following chapters.

It has become common in our times to present the "Shady Side" of ministerial life, altogether, and the young are deterred from entering the sacred calling from the fear that want and starvation will soon stare them in the face. This work aims to correct this notion, and show that the ministry, though it has its dreary spots and its shady sides, has its allurements and its attractions; that there are churches that do not feel it necessary to starve their ministers in order to keep them humble. Without appealing to worldly ambition, its humble mission will be to cherish Christian emulation, and make the ministry appear desirable.

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It has also become common for churches to expect as much of the minister's wife as of himself, and, in the recent works of this kind, she is made to figure conspicuously at sewing circles, visiting the sick and the poor, attending public meetings, and, in some cases, appearing "much more of a man than her husband." Our object is to present the minister himself. His companion will be left at home, where she belongs, attending to her family. Park-place church did not ordain her, and they never will accustom themselves to call on her for services which should devolve on others.

The authoress is sure, that however poorly she may have succeeded in her work, the object she has in view will commend her little book to every Christian heart, and that the motive which prompted her to intrude upon the public will gain for her pages an attentive perusal.

CONTENTS.

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