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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 6, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 38.

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MINISTERIAL FITNESS.

By Editor

IRENÆUS, in the Observer, relates the following, which we doubt not, for we have seen people who judged of the qualifications of a minister on equally high grounds:—
“I was visiting a great planter in Kentucky, near Lexington, while attending the Presbyterian Assembly. He wanted me to see a couple of colts six weeks old, and when they were brought out I said, ‘Morgan colts.’ ‘Why,’ he exclaimed, ‘do you know a Morgan colt when you see it?’ ‘Certainly,’ said I, ‘or an Eclipse colt.’ ‘Well done,’ said he, ‘I never saw a minister before that knew a Morgan horse, or any other, at sight. Why, sir, you can have a call to any church in Kentucky!’ ”