If by occasional fasting for a day our Puritan fathers in New England became so good, what might we not expect of our ministers if we kept them in perpetual fast?
No doubt their spiritual capacity would enlarge in proportion to their shrinkage at the waistcoat.

The average salary of ministers in the United States is about six hundred dollars.

Perhaps by some spiritual pile-driver we might send it down to five hundred dollars; and then the millennium, for the lion by that time would be so hungry he would let the lamb lie down inside of him.

We would suggest a very economical plan: give your spiritual adviser a smaller income, and make it up by a donation visit.

When everything else fails to keep him properly humble, that succeeds.