The minister must be something as well as do something. He must
consistently make an impression upon everybody he approaches
that he is in something unlike the ordinary run of men. I do
not mean that he should be sanctimonious, for that repels; it
must be something in his own consciousness. My father was a
clergyman. One of the most impressive incidents of my youth
occurs to me. He was in a party of gentlemen, when one of them
used a profane word unthinkingly. With a start he turned to my
father, and said, “I beg your pardon, Dr. Wilson.” My father
said, very simply and gently, “Oh, sir, you have not offended
me.” The emphasis he laid upon that word “me” brought with it a
tremendous impression. All present felt that my father regarded
himself as an ambassador of someone higher; their realization
of it showed in their faces.--WOODROW WILSON, _The
Churchman_.
(76)
=Ambidexterity Favored=--See ASYMMETRY.