The Curate Of Cumberworth And The Vicar Of Roost Tales By The Author Ofthe Owlet Of Owlstone Edge Ie Francis E Paget Etc

Author : Francis Edward Paget
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781978179219
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book The Curate of Cumberworth and the Vicar of Roost Tales written by Francis Edward Paget and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE AUTHOR TO THE READER. Good Reader, If anyone should tell you that these tales are a mere libel on the Clergy, beneficed and unbeneficed; that the object of that which is entitled, "The Curate of Cumberworth," is to represent our Curates as a body of men opinionative, self-satisfied, jealous, meddlesome, -- assuming as a matter of course when they enter upon a parochial charge, that whatever is, is wrong, and liking nothing heartily which they have not originated themselves: and that it is the design of " The Vicar of Roost" to portray our Incumbents as self-seeking, self-indulgent, domineering, insincere, I pray you not to believe a syllable of the charge, but to read and judge for yourself. "Read" (if I may make the words of good Bishop Sanderson my own) "without gall or prejudice. Let not truth fare worse for the plainness. Catch not at syllables and phrases. Study to seek the Church's peace." "'Tis an ill bird that bewrays its own nest." A parson writes this volume who commenced his ministry in a curacy, and finds himself at its close in a benefice. Erom his own experience, therefore, he can sympathise with the difficulties of either state, and knows (as no layman could) the temptations and infirmities from within, and the sore trials of faith and patieDce from without, which beset all, of whatever rank, who are exercising the office of the ministry. And therefore, in no censorious spirit, but as fully conscious that he himself is more liable than most to be met with the retort, " Physician, heal thyself," has he ventured to write upon the subjects broached in the ensuing pages. Depicting scenes and persons, possible, indeed, but, it is to be hoped, not very probable, his purpose has been (by the instrumentality of sketches, -- out of drawing, -- over-coloured, -- exaggerated, -- grotesque if you will, ) to point out the tendency to which certain tempers and dispositions, if unchecked, will lead; and the manner in which they will interfere with, and mar Ministerial exertions. It is the further object of these fictions to remind those whose destiny calls them to work together in the same parish, that there is constant need of mutual consideration and forbearance; that Curate and Incumbent have alike their infirmities and frailties, errors of judgment and deficiencies in conduct; that each needs allowance from the other, patient treatment, and charitable construction of motives....