The Express.
London, England, 1856-09-09 00:00:00

9, 1858. (Stamped id. Additional) [TWOPENCE.

We are aessetaseed to look grave whoa ths alt
mysteries ead namie.*ye are misfit mei
it•Mense these m sem lin
WWIRi
I IWMK far essememt helps le amolis
lis the eepreastation of dogrel dramas, where Gad
the lather Our Beam the Holy Spirit, the Dull,
Adam end Iwy and, Y abort, all the prinsipel psF
smarm lumen or empsommal, mentioned in Scrip
tam, were_lineght on the siege. We are liable to
entertain eiseerd doable as le the piety at the writers
of these Meads travesties of the sacred narratime,
mod to lama ever the mamas of the intellect al
these Who email find entertainment in them. We is
is net*, OMNI lestractive in them than in the awhd
analool hawses the devil sad the baker, which wee
CVirthe soneindieg seem of the " pistils
podatmemeeme milk Is Cbrielates ot
Maisel iree anaemia. Is Protestent conanies
r=smaili fry' is partionlirove ad*
ilandihrity with holy wank and Mier.
Wo have fait ea meek aversion to imieMilleat turned
late • theatre as tome a theatre turned fate a ithereli.
We hold ea opinion grounded se mai on principles
of good taste as of religion, that it is almost as
offeesive to esen_siergyman perform in hie paph as
to hear motors iambi Heaven is a theatre.
nks, however, is net quite usivinally an
Lt say person who wishes to manes lineal! of
lit WA of this, take his station opposite to Inter-
mi boat 'ming, at about a few minutes be-
have is Oise. We may opposite. beams, name he
arrives some ins beano the her mentioned dime
will be se standing roes as the pawn* his
whY the antrum is the Hell amide. •Colz the
ism amm, and a ism mum of hymn beings pears
in. There is no interrepasa now to the ccatinsom
stream until half-pest its Mime, when the whole of
the vest hall, with its galishoiornettlearen. be
filled with the closely puked If the men
tater his not taken are to astir befits thisftte
will have bat small chance of Sabi even .
ram Suppose him to have mimed early
_an7airi g
have
found a asst. He via naturally leek aressi
Ida to seas the features of the seem. Thy
on remarkable each to mite atteatim
the minds of the most lietlw.Stretchimr he meg
to the beak are Armando of plumes evidently owe
for the appearance of some cm. Towering up Ms
platform as seats are all crowded. Nearly all the
eyes in this multitude are directed to the front of
the platform. The breathless in only broken
oecesionally by the strunle is the body of the hell,
el three who are endeamaring lepis or mantels a
position. Soddenly even this neW is steppe& •
short equarely-beift mu, with *rob( eyes, with
thick bleak hair parted down die ttitLy with a
mellow countenance only redeemed from heaviness

txtittrioodionsos of die eyes, edressas den the
towards the met of Maser. • esterase
of short combs, indicative of the yells( added
te the illesgeseeed impatience of the seermhig, or
moms to **stranger that the truism of the amain
bee essestesmil. He will he told with a steeds dm
pre of awe lc those whom he sake for iris maths,
that the pasts jest arrived is Ike Rev: a IL Sm.
gees. He will per
pargeoa ilitaLheo:ra,anin oddities*? this
mmt
Cries-i., Lund
that he is etilmed Is
Ngslitm is the evening at his IWO is
Ism oa aosonat of the least
el sum* gsgvigustialls pore than a mere hordes
lississila mks Seek to beer hist; that
ilselephall has bats taken for the purpose of ding-
*Mom he • slight degree the disappointment expo-
themililist that sable_ will be done to afford Wee.
Ise sad natal Ste ore lapel which is is content-
Odes is built, and with* is inteoded to bold 15,000
prisem
!b ionise aummesses with a hymn, read first
thressimal by the malleter, and then sung by the
allot of the multitude of voices
Watlanales• Is eery floe. The minister then
shaper, messmanying the reeding with ex-
*Sims remarkable only foe the design, tone in
wilek are delivered, and a strange treat of
of those Meant. of aramolvisul
1.11. e white are as among of in the study the
111e.rfn that of any other ()Antal book. A hymn
mod prayer follow and thee comes the menace, in
which those peculiarities which have made Mr. Spur-
geon famous come oat in fall forte.

The first this, which strikes the spectator is the
way in which the speaker waked himself at home
with his congregation. He is "hail fellow well met"
with them directly. He addresses quoting to this, he
ensure them questions foully. and he oontrives Islet
hearers tut how much wiser they are to be sitting his
there than anywhere else. No phrase is too homely
for him, no allusion too absurd. He compliments
their understanding, at the sumo time that he tells
them he is not going to overtax it. Evelything that
he says is to be so plan that those who roe may
read. " Das to mesh so that there shall be no
mistake about it," he tells them in so many words.
He likes to um the platelet of words too. "There
are sense ministers who are mealy mouthed, afraid
to speak oat. These." be tells them, "are Brea
Brunetti =Jujitsu." leader to explain his alludes
he relates the old story of Bramwell confoning to haw
iog own eaten apes when taxed with eating vegetables.
A tumult of laughter follows this veryncoel rimy. Me
is not at all averts to press a pas into his suds%
"A mu," be says, "sits down in salfoofferesy,
thinking I an' do all that. Oh. blessed day when
God directs his shots against that. I know I hogged
that old idea a long time, with my cans," ono;
cans ' bat I loud my 'cans' would hold no water,
and suffered all I put I. to run out." We have already
spoken of the free and ahoy way In which he alludes
to ministers of other deecominadeu and other shades
of belief than his own. He dose not always outset
himself with a sneer. He reptant. the mist use
of the damned coeds( up from the pit and appeals,
to a minister on his deadobed. 'Wig to him. "I some
to thee often trembliesten assout el Ws, I embed dies
the road to heaves, mad Shim Mdlet my. 'De seek mad
such good works,' sod I did them. and I am bawd."
Thee follow other, sod then the =blister dies. and
"hears his pariah esme bowling after him into hell."
The ministers who are such especial objects of Mr.
B 's aversion, and when he impales se hew
eimsly for his own sellikeiliestien sad the ammo
mat of his congregation, are those. be it neimeleed,
who refuse to peach the extreme Calvinism r erbieb
he delights, for the simple roux that they meet
interpret the Holy Scriptures so he interprets thew II
For this they are ailed unfaithful, and sentenced to
M howled after in bell by the seek which they bus
ruined. It is not oar purpose bus to enter into a
theological controversy ea the peonliar merits of Cal.
vials= or ArceinianWit, bat we have surely a
right to demand that when the former do:trios is
rushed, it should to does with some regard to
=decency. Mr. Surgeon's hearses may have
accustomed to that gentleman% mode of en-
fusing his doctrines, bet no on. who has not under-
goes the discipline in which they have boon exercised
can listen without a shedder to such phrases as
" Christ never intended to are the damned.* Surely,
the decency of religious worship is violated by each
entente, us these :

Os sad try my Ilavlear I If 1w era yes away therm'
M ys swab% kiss, tell it is the pit that ClW,heersayit art
Met .
If yesyrs were kit, God's balm weie.il bo es auk tar-
abbid as U die sweetest ear won Me;.
Tim M talks of u wean OW if hs Pages
after t M ',Unpile. Is performed. Ice.
Bit most striking hiatus of Mr. Sperm's
oafs's is Ow Aron dramatis elorsest rrliisit is
Sesmiesst. Hs is sow so hippy as vbs. ha
ass Imindse a story sr NM imyioary faddist
hr Ili lessee of his houses. Os these carsolovii Isi
wait speed lowa the platform, throws himself isle

various attitudes, gestieolata, mire hi. you., and
ream Wm% or whims, as the nee may demand.
For issestestAa may be talking of Adam's fall and
the redemption el Adams's densadants, and he will
do his ogee Noweedy either on the toiling or a remote
east tithe hall, and eall oat soddenly, in a load
antesuling odes
Adam ; when art thou I have a controversy
with thee, man t Now, Adam. what haat thou lost
for me r

Then looking round rather knowiagly upon the
congregation, hi muctinase—
" Olf," answers Adam, "I have loot say mown."
Here follows a long speech from Adam. in which
he expiates the glories of the crown be bad lost. Let
la have the reply—
themA Adam, thou haat lost me way crown hut
P Never ;mind, Adam ; Christ puts a crown ou
my heed; &e.
Adam next eoadmess to laving log his mitre,
Paradise, sad the image of Clod, enlarging at each
answer ea the merits of each. To all them oonfee.
Mona Mr. Bpsrgeao answers jovially, with a Wad of
rollicking joy tbst is difficult to desseibe.
Or, he will be talking about Death. and will in-
terrupt himself with a start, and an ezelamatice—
" Death ! I me bin there—Oh, Death I—Oh,
foolish Death. Thy coal* fa broke.," dm.

At mother time lie will dramatise the stone between
Marl Moradose and Chskt in the home of Simon.
He km an time lighten hesitation in potting a long
weak in the mina el the limner. Ho dole not at
all ample to report iflaverestioss between other
rwhoa he tinniness into his dramatis somas.
earm. bajada mit be wee slim in pommel= of ths
fall aad tree gospel nerredve, and that what the
Evangelists have basal down to is were maim
abridgments. The minds of all the psv oas,, snored
or profane. who are smatissed la the sly Scriptoria
are open before him like a bait. He kaows their
*Woes end their thoughts. Tim knowing is a rather
and spears§ d the way in while the gnashes. is
semitone& to treat two of the poems or the Holy
Trinity. He is addnedng a thoughtless sinner:—

Than set like that sass si es,, whose pleayelas shoed at
the heed of Ow Wig t hobs, hi was a daiaty beet, bat
thew aft set, ler drolly owe kle head wee a sword our
Wa%Lints. Bo art they steam Let thy sup be
it pleasures be blab, lot thy seal be elevated.
awl dna sword / Tha ant tine dos singlet la the
theatre. bee up sad leo that sword ; the seat time *es
eft la a tovere, look at that swami ; whits ant la thy bad-
men that sesseest the raise of Owl's Gospel, look at that
sward. Tbs. thee east it wet, it there. Brea sow
ye way her God whew to Gahrhl,—Gatirial, that sea le
*dew is Ws seat lit As hall ; he is hearitip but be h as
though be heard set. Vashositse thy blade; set the slitter-
tag sword oat through that hair ; the weeps" Gabriel,
bin tad arils his suet sad body. Step ?hes
stop I bare tbs mesa a Bids while. Give Ida yet sa hew,
that he may impost. Oh, let Ilse mot die. Tsui, he has
bees here thee tea or a doom alight% sad be has Wooed
without a tear. Bat stop; peradventure he way repeat yet.
Jesus backs up soy entreaty sad he arise, Spare dimyet
another year, tin I ft about him, sad hung bin, sag I
though be sow southus sir posed, be say pet brieg forth
bolt, that he as sot be hewn how. sad oat late the Ira"
I auk thee, 0 Ged, thou nut sot out bin dews bralsbt;
but taserrew say be lie lest day.
We may be wrosg, bet it strikes es that the pro-
fanity of the last sindinies his Woken been equalled,
MIS in the &emus el the meat extravagant 'snide'.
Ths preceding patien is bad essegh ; the iaventice
Wes Ive Galled Christ; the intrusion of the
himself late the nese, " bseked up" by the
are menstrines; bet the Clean of having
oltleinei roughs far a day for a slaws is simply im-
pious.
We
b=gall seisms with specials.. of this
pulpit , hut we have given enough to show
the nature of .Spargeon's preaching. We might
have brought forward instances of his utter ignorance
of soy theology except that current among the sect
to which he belongs; and of his ladies's/I misinter-
pretadons of Scripture, wessiowd by his want of
even a moderate acquaintance with Oriental customs
and forms of language. Mr. Spurgeon—and possibly
his don—would tell se that the knowledge
to which allude is the knowledge whisk " puffeth
up," mere " human learning." If he or they
ever attain to eves a small pwdoa of this
knowledge, they will look with astonishment
on the DOMMDS• that the one has spoken and the
others have listened to. We are, however, not at all
I disposed to deny that the great benefits oldie
may be conveyed to the minds of ootigngationsgairyl
pious men with only an inflaitedinally small ruction
of this knowledge. We will not &ay that the
richest towers of holiness may Boorish an ground
which has not been scientifically prepared to Ma,.
them. The greatest theologian of die day has said
that doubtless many au old woman lee felt the pre-
' •
mous value of spiritual troths acre deeply than he
himself when be tries to expiate them. It is not
want of knowledge for which we condemn Mr.
Spurgeon: it is the daring sentoption which be
makes of exclusive knowledge; the sunning flattery
wwhisk he insinuates that hi. hearers
almost the only proper persons to share this
knowledge with him; hie reckless denaseistioas el all
who differ with himself; and lastly, his audacities vio-
latices of propriety in his dramatic repressatatices.
We have a right to reproach him with these things,
because they have the worst effete., upon his hearers.
A congregation that constantly listens to the spiri-
tual dram-drinking that Mr. Spurgeon encourages
will become not only bigotted bet greedy after
stronger doses of excitement. What suited them
tree will fall fiat upon their palate. The preacher
will be obliged to booms more and more entrees-
pat as his audience becomes more aid more enact-
ing, sad the end may be an extensive development
of dangerous fanaticism.

DIPOITANT TO BEM CATTAINII.--LIVIRPOOL,
MONDAY.—A dickies Offprint imparts...l to the skipping
interest was gins is lb. Pikes Court to-day. It will be
~...bored that is Italy last Ns New York packet ship
law W.bb, from this port to New York, with migrant',
wee drives where la a pale of wiadl at Aralweh, ea the
Welsh awn, two days atter leaving Liverpool. After belay
salaarrior a considerable period, she was floated of, aad
breech% beck to Liverpool. tip= her arrival here, it was
dissevered that after she had rased the impolite of the
cornmeal Akers at Ws port, whoa she had a fall crew
shipped, she lamest% sone of skull, mad pat to sea short.
headed. The wee were hired for the purse of pushy the
vowel through the governseat din. A "reassutiss was
at sass tontine& by the Board of Truk sad the ease
Wed bar. Kr. Masedeld wad Captain berg, who
✓icarial Way their Manion of lailletiag • dee of 2601.
spas Os mobil' (Bryn). The in would bars beau
mash awn IMMO but fur its being the fret me in whnb
the law ha boss **forced, sad the aphis admittiag his

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of the Buttes Casper (screw atonser), front Einthipool,
arrived la the Rivet Thorns. reports that "se Saturday
monism September 6, at 1.30, paned the Janet Crla
(screw stonier), which. hoisted Waal' of distress. The
Hatton Chapter hamediatsly sou dews to her. Whoa
within hall the esptsia of the ;net Cron ballad the Banes
Chapter, sad said that his vessel was fast Alibi with water,
sad nasind issuadlato seiridelial. Bailed tho Joust Croll,
sad told ths master to heist kb beats out, sad cows ca
board lit Buttes Milner. At tss sm., ths /wean sad
all the wow of the Joan Cron pa safe ea board of the
Hatton Minton Ithial lay by the other until daylight,
whom pan of thorny of the ;net Cron peneeded ea board
abet @palm, sad passed a towline as bean of nth Hansa
o*spor, la took bar la tow la bops of roubles Yarmouth
but while Swam nth wade water se bet, that at 6 a.m. she
fousidasi. Us yew gst oafs oat of her before she west
dews. 111wasks Dodson light-resod ban
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ended shes rams for Landes with tbs wow of the Janet
Crail, 16 is ausalow. I. Tarawa* Rinds wet the Row D.
Measles can. straw, for Ilattlopeel; pat 14 of the crow
of Ow Janet Cnall *a beard, to win the. to lintlepool, the
sin of then bolas rasidloate then; Monkey two
to Leedom with Ow Mann Chapter. The Just artinsd
built at Live., seer alma two "IN 40. tff
Mows. 11.10sar sad Co., of that tows., • r Mr. A. A. C
late Sherif of leados, sad 'lOOl laate.,ly beat 'splay**
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