Introducing Millers and Ministers

Millers

Today we’re introducing a miller, a man in a line we take pretty much for granted in our time of “refined” products. There was a day when his kind wore clothes covered with flour dust and carried bran cake in their hair. The milling industry has the longest continuing run in history. It reaches back before written records though it didn’t come to America’s shores until Dutch wind mills became popular. Some of those lumbering leviathans stand as scattered landmarks, but the behavior of both the mills and millers has changed along with everything else.

There’s a considerable span between the old-wind-powered grist grinder and the modern rollers that put water-powered plants along the old mill stream. With this advent of modern mechanism, millers were too plentiful and many grain grinders left that old mill stream to its romance and song. To bring us up-to-date on a story with an interesting background, we have with us:

Ministers

Businessmen expect to get what they pay for-except when they hire a preacher; then they expect $15,000 value for $1500.
Recently when no minister was available for a convention invocation, one of these businessmen, acting as Chairman, began:

“There being no clergyman present, let us thank God!”
This parishioner’s idea of a good sermon is one that goes over his head, and hits one of his neighbors.
Generally speaking, congregations expect a great deal from their ministers. They expect these men of God to save their souls, maintain their churches, and do it all on meager donations. An enterprising pastor, discouraged by the poor offerings, hit on the successful plan of posting a “Buy Now, Pray Later” bulletin.

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