THE MINISTER'S WIFEThis is the month of Church Conferences when the Ministers come in for their Annual Meetings and to listen to sermons, and reports, and Bible expositions, and to exercise what sales-resistance they can in regard to the books artfully displayed on the Literature Table. They are clean-cut men who look as if they shave every day, gray-haired many of them, and spectacled, but alert and well-groomed.
I have not seen one who looks overfed or lazy, or in any way resembles that poor sawdust thing, the bazaar-opening "parson" so often featured in modern fiction. They look like men who could do with more money, more books, a new car, and more time to associate with other men, but they are not apologizing to anyone, and not envious of anyone, for they know the magnitude of their w
