The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-08-01

mere Idtl an no, not nedrtleSs quite; lca
Though thonging worlds with wealth and power should
Farewell, Fleranthe yet before die,
My spirit will commune in peace with thine
Forgive thee all, my triumph and my JOY,
glove thee still while life and thought are mine.
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Religion and Ice Cream
We perceive in a western paper a notice inform
ing the reading world that the ladies of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church in the town will serve up an
entertainment of ice cream next door TO the church
on Friday evening the 9TH inst They extend a
general invitation, and hope to please" This a
loye-feas indeed but who they intend to please .
and what is the particular object of the meeting,
we are moi told. If the hope TO warm and elevate
the soul, religious fervor and inspire the
congregation with JOY, eXutatiOn and piOus excite
breaking forth in prayer, in hymns, and
loud shous-iee cream is the most singular provoc-
alive we have ever heard of How religion has
changed in this progressive age III old times the
pions sought secluson in the shady grove, in the
stiffness Of the night, under the canopy of heaven,
orin the retired closet, to pour forth the soul in
prayer and thanksgiving to the throne ii grace.
Then religion was in the heart. Now the pious are
drummed together by a notice in the papers that
coffee. cake, and ice cream to be served up by
the ladies who @hope to please All are invited
to prayers and hot coffee TO psalms and hot rolls TO
sermons and ice cream. We hear of public din
ner occasionally for charitable purposes-of noble
baron of beef and plentiful supply Of champagne,
to warm the heart and open the purse strings; but
ii LtS least tiliS general ilNldIlOn III WHICH the
ladies hope to please, is to raise the wind, punch
would have been more celebrating than ice cream
There are, however, examples on record of such
pious festivals The historian of Croyland Abbey
speaks in high praise of Brother Laurence Chartres
cook Of the society, who, prompted by the love of
heaven and pious zeal, had expended sum equal
to four hundred modern pounds tosuppIy the fathers
with almond milk on fshday But the SOLUTION
mass celebrated in honor Of the Blessed Virgin
five times year, carried ecclesiastical luxury to
the highest pitch The inhabitants of every parish
Wed with each other in filling their churches with
meat and drink, and, as soon as the mass ended,
the feast began. The Larry were invited to join the
clergy, and the church became the scene of gross
licentiousness.
The festival ofour ladies who hope to please
was, no doubt, a temperance concern-prayer and
ice cream, hymns and French chocolate, psalms of
David, short metre, and pound cake-and we must
say, that if they intend TO fall back on Popery this
is a very agreeable mode Of prOselytism. We must
confess however, that in the darker ages, called
tests were part OF the religion OF almost all nations
and sects We read of an Egyptian feast-that of
Bubartis on the banks Of the Nile-at which there
We're no less than 10000 spectators, who revelled
to such purpose as to consume more wine than
throughout the year, AT the Egyptian feast of
BusFis, the sacrifices were followed by flagella-
ton, from which neither men nor women We're ex-
empted Nothing of this kind, we hope, was con-
templated in our ice cream religious festival. The
Greek and Roman festivals, when they hOnOred
their deities and heroes with their presence, were
said to have been piously splendid. The feast days
in the Christian church date their origin from the
fourth century, and as may be well imagined,
were greatly abused Instead of piety, there were
incidence and voluptuollsness being manfestly in
stituted on the Pagan model; and even honest John
Bull, at the present day, never celebrates upon
building church or turnpike but at the close of
a dinner. Why should our religious worship of ice
cream be secuted These invitations, however,
from the ladies who hope to please are, no
doubt, intended as benefits to the pastor-delcate
aids in villages, where small salaries exist-when
the curate " is passing rich with forty pounds
year !" We have go objections to this, if the ice
cream does not come ad 6bitum. We are in favor
of taking care of our parsons and if we had a
good family grocery, and his preaching pleased US,
we should send him occasionally pound or two of
good tea, loaf of sugar, ham, some Spices and
bottle or two of old wine for medicinal purposes if
a butcher Nose should carry him now and then
pair of choice ribs; or baker, pound cake and
dozen hot rolls for breakfast. These are the fair
little perqusites of his reverence who is not bound
to cure our souls gratis; and if we were rich,
and our minister was good man, and our wife
loved him, which we consider indispensable, Ire |
would have now and then a twenty dollar note in !
an envelope, leaving him to guess who else but |
Providence was the donor
If any ice cream is TO be served up in future, we
trust that the ladies will not publicly announce that
they hope to please" They do please always, |
when engaged, as they frequently are,
in good works.-N. Y. Sunday Tunes.