CHAPTER XIV.
THE SEXTON.
King David, it is evident, once thought something of becoming a church sexton, for he said, "I had rather be a doorkeeper," and so on.

But he never carried out the plan, perhaps because he had not the qualification.
It requires more talent in some respects to be sexton than to be king.

A sexton, like a poet, is born.

A church, in order to peace and success, needs the right kind of man at the prow, and the right kind at the stern--that is, a good minister and a good sexton.

So far as we have observed, there are four kinds of janitors.
THE FIDGETY SEXTON.
He is never still.