Ministers’ and Deacons’ Children.
The children of ministers and deacons have a champion in Rev. Asa Bullard. Incredulous of the wholesale crimination of this class of juveniles, Mr. Bullard has made full and pains-taking inquiries that seem fairly to explode a fallacious libel. He says: “In four hundred and forty-eight families of ministers and deacons, there were two thousand one hundred and one children, over fifteen years of age, of whom one thousand four hundred and fourteen were hopefully pious, ninety-three were in the ministry or fitting for it, and only thirty-four dissipated! And all the remaining children, with very few exceptions, were respectable and useful citizens. Can results like these be obtained from the same number of families (taken impartially as these were) of any class or profession of parents, especially of those who are not professing Christians? How false and unjust, then, the proverb that ‘ministers’ and deacons’ children are worse than other children!’”