Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1849-04-05

marks of our cor espoa lent, ,ralali"e to the con-
duct of certain persons at the Rev ID Ch"uies
Church and trust that DIR. G. will follow
the advice given. Such conduct is disgrace
ful in the extreme, and il those persons do not
know better that to conduct thus in the house
of God, and during the services, they should
be taught, in most emphatic manner, that
they will not be permitted to carry on all
kinds of dcvillry with impunity.
Newport, April Q, 1919.
Mn. EDITOR
Permit me, through your useful paper, to
address myself in few words 10 tho
Rev. Dr. CHouLEs,
Dear Sir You will pardon the liber
ty take in saying that | think you greatly
erred last evening when you announced, at
the close Of the service, that for the future
your Church would not bo open on Sunday
Evenings. Ii seems to me that the large num-
Der of our people, not only of your own church,
but those from other churches, who receive
rroat pleasure and benefit from attending
your lectures, have a right, so long as you are
willing to render your services, TO the privil-
ege of quietly enjoying what those Sunday
evening lectures are so well calculated to
produce. Why then should those cXcr-
ciscs he suspended merely because their
solemnity is mlrrcd and interrupted by a num-
Der of unprncpled and ill-brcd young men
and women or rather overgrown boys and
girls, or males and females, whose ages vary
from fifteen to thirty years Instead of the
/ hui drcds Of respectable, serious and religious
people, vino are constantly found among your
hearers, having your church doors closed
against them, because thirty or forty dsreput-
able persons find their way into tho church
for the purpose of annoying tae congregation,
another and full as eilacacous a mode might
be adopted to cure the crying and disgraceful
evil will suggest that mode directly.
Your appeal last evening TO those disorder
| ly persons was indeed as powerful and touch
ing, rs it was faithful and anectionate. new
er in my life was moro deeply and keenly af-
fec,ei at anything that fell from your lips
Indeed, could hardly refrain from asking
your permission iha, might address a word
or two to the congregation myself But 1t
occurred to me that if your earnest and deeply
affecting appeal was unhceded, ,-iithcy would
not hear you--they would not hear stranger,
nor would they hear one though he rose from
the dead.
The honor and credit of our town, to say
nothing of the cause of religion and morals,
require that this evil, Of which you and all
good people bitterly complain, must find a
remedy, a speedy and ellectual remedy. The
scenes myself and others have witnessed at
your Sunday evening lectures must not be
repeated. Why, sir, blush even to recol-
! lect what have seen there. | have seen a
young woman, or rather a female, have a
live kitten in her lap ; have seen another
with quite large rag baby or dol pressing ii
to her bosom, and at the same time gazing at
young lads in an adjoining pew, looking as
though she would say TO them this is the con-
diion desire to be ina mother caresslng
her infant child. 1t must be confessed that
conduct like this would be disgra"eiul even in
bro,hcl. My remedy for the evil is this
Open your Church next Sabbath evening ;
give notice from the pulpit that you desire
every person who notices unbccomlng behav'
| iour on the part of any of the congregation to
hand the names of such to one of your Dea-
cons who shall be Chairman Of Committee
to be composed of an equal number Of Church
and Corporation, whose duty shall be to hand
TO YOU the names of such disordcrly persons,
and then at the succeeding lecture read aloud
from the pulpit their names and their parents
names. Let this be done, and you will al
once be sustained by every well disposed per
son in this community, and your Church
| would then assume its true character and ap-
'' pearance-thc house of God, and not den OF
- unclcan things The kind civilty OF
your own people in throwing open and giving
up their pews to accommodate us strangers who
visit your Church on Sabbath evenings, mus
hereafter meet with better return.