HUNTING A MINISTER'S FAULTS.
MR. SPURGEON puts into the mouth of "John Ploughman" the following homely bit of wisdom, which we commend to any reader who may have magnified his pastor's imperfections: "I never knew a good horse that had not some odd habit or other, and I never knew a minister worth his salt who had not some crotchet or oddity. Now these are bits of cheese for cavilers to nibble at; the first is too flowery, the second is too dull. Dear me, if all God's creatures were judged in this way, we should wring the dove's neck for being too tame, shoot the robins for eating spiders, kill the crows for swinging their tails, and the hens for not giving us milk. When a man wants to beat a dog he can soon find a stick, and at this rate any fool can have something to say against the best minister in England."