The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-01-18

1 oASh OF MRS. bEARE, OF LONG ISLAND-ndVln8
disposed of the two first charges against the Bishop,
| we now proceed to review the remaining charge,
founded on the testimony of Mrs Beare, wife of the
Rev. Mr.. Beare, pastor Of the Protestant Episcopal
church, at Little Neck, Long Island.
i
1t was pleasant day in the summer of 1872
Steamboats, and schooners and sloops, and immune
rable rivercraft were floating on the bosom of that
noble stream which connects the broad waters Of
the Sound with the Atlantic. Not a cloud could be
seen in all the expanse Of the armament, and the
river was undisturbed bv single ripple, save where
the eddying current indistiactly marked the trea-
cherous depths Of Helga,e-like the half conceal
ed lines where deceit and malice may be traced
lurking on the face of man long trained in the
| hypocrsies of wicked world. The hst rays of
| the MONDAY sun were pouring down on Blackwells
Island, and diligently at work on soil equalled in
| obstnacy only by that of a Fourier paradise; nu
merous bands Of amateur BIOLOGISTS, cursed the
hardness of theirfate, and envied the more tranquil
labors of the sisterhood, who, in the adjoining
sheds, picked oakum and sung the lays Of happier
| times Ever and anon the ear could family catch
the hum of the great city, whose spires could be
seen in the distance distinctly defined against the
broad surface of the noble bay that lay spread out
| Tor so many leagues beyond.
Such was the day on which small congregation
were assembled in country church on beautiful
Long Island. 1t was an Episcopal visitation. A
Bishop, venerable for his years, was reading the
| solemn service in which for hundreds Of years,
multitudes of men have communed with heaven.
Amongst those who knelt at the altar, there was
| one groupe which might have been study for a
painter. II was the pastors family An aged
obi he
mother had just meeky raised her eyes upward,
and with one arm had iondly drawn closer to her
side, her blooming child, when an upper window
in the church was opened, and the rays of the sun
fell suddenly in softened radiance on the groupe
| 1t seemed special message of Joy and peace from
heaven!
The congregation had dispersed, and the humble
carriage Of the country clergyman was conveying
the Bishop to the pastors dwelling. Beside the
venerable man of God, was seated the pastors
wife. The Bishop leans backward in the carriage
his is carelessly and quietly placed around the
fair and gentle creature by his side. What His
hand upon her bosom? All surely the vision OF
that pale pale face, and those mournfully indignant
eyes, as the silent reproof was given, must haunt
his soul forever!
The scene was changed. The pastor and his
wife, with their guest, had been spending the eve
ming at the house Of friend. They are returning
homeward. The moon was just rising in troub-
led sky. Heavy black clouds were fitting across
the heavens, like spirits of evil, Fastening to some
scene Of conflict and carnage. The pastor is seat
| ed in front his wife and the old man are behind
Just as the carriage energies from a thick wood,
| through which they had passed, the neon beams
streamed in upon the travellers, and revealed the
| old mans hand again placed upon the bosom of
| that fair young wife and mother
| Again the scene was changed. The pastor and
his wife are in their chamber-consecrated to holy
love and purity. They are upon their knees.
They are imploring the mercy of heaven in be-
half of one who has done great wrong. In an
| adjoining chamber, an old man lies in deep, but
unquiet slumber, turning and tossing, as ever and
anon, he clutches at his pillow. Was it fancy,
was it but the rushing of the night-wind through
the lofty trees, that stood like stern old guardians
| around that peaceful dwelling. which made us
| think we heard those peas of echoing fiendish
| laughter?
We have now laid before the public, in our own
| way, the whole amount of evidence on which
Bishop Onderdonk has been suspended from the
exercise OF all the functions Of the Episcopate,
OF a minister in the house of God. We believe
| that the opinions we have expressed in the case
are precisely those which the judgment of an en-
| lightened and impartial public will pronounce
That the Bishop has erred, no one can deny.
| His conduct is entirely indetensble. But un-
| christian and unholy motives, aud not those
just, honorable, and laudable purposes, which
| a man can avow in the face of earth and heaven,
have actuated the proceedings against him. And
this is after all, perhaps, the most painful view Of
the subject. 1t is, indeed, lamentable enough to
find Bishop Of the church-a minister of that gln-
rious religion, whose grand characteristic is purity
| and which seeks to make man happy by expelling
the foul lusts which convert him into brute and a
fend-so dsgracing his sacred profession, and dis.
honorng his God. But the angels may well weep
when they witness such terrible spectacle as that
Of great body of the clergy and people of Chris
tian church utterly given up to all unchartableness
and evil speaking, and malce-almost, il not al
together, answering that description given by the
great Apostle Of the Gentiles, of the wicked ene-
mics Of the truth" Hated and hating one another
| When shall the end of these things be?
THE MAYOR AND CoRPoRATIoN-WHAT ARE THEY
DorNe?-Every one begins to put these questions to
his neighbor =" What are the Mayor and Corpo-
ration doing1' "Why don't they attend to the
affairs Of the ctyT' "What is the reason that we
have not better city government" All these
questions are easily answered, by reference to
the organs Of the Mayor and his associates. We
perceive from those emnently intelligent and re-
spectacle vehicles of intelligence, that his Honor
the Mayor, and his excellent associates instead Of
attending to their public duties, as they promised
so faithfully before the election, are doing nothing,
night after night, but attending balls, and sotes,
and frolics, and parties Their organs are full OF
beautifully written articles, giving an account of
" banner presentations"-and "gay and animated
audiences"-and happy aldermen-and speeches,
and repes-and oysters, crackers, champagne
and all such things, most felictously mixed up to.
gether. How can these venerable reformers attend