CHAPTER IX.
BEEFSTEAK FOR MINISTERS.
There have been lately several elaborate articles remarking upon what they call the lack of force and fire in the clergy.

The world wonders that, with such a rousing theme as the gospel, and with such a grand work as saving souls, the ministry should ever be nerveless.

Some ascribe it to lack of piety, and some to timidity of temperament.

We believe that in a great number of cases it is from the lack of nourishing food.

Many of the clerical brotherhood are on low diet.