After jackets and sacks have been provided for the eight or ten children of the parsonage, the father and mother must watch the table with severest economy.

Coming in suddenly upon the dinner-hour of the country clergyman, the housewife apologizes for what she calls "a picked-up" dinner, when, alas! it is nearly always picked up.
Congregations sometimes mourn over dull preaching when themselves are to blame.

Give your minister more beefsteak and he will have more fire.

Next to the divine unction, the minister needs blood; and he cannot make that out of tough leather.

One reason why the apostles preached so powerfully was that they had healthy food.