The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-10-15

Gone TO p PARADISE WITH SLU T1exErs.-CAL
vary church, ever whose destinies DR.. HAWKS pro-
sides, and by whose popularity the price of pews
has run up to premium SURPRISING that paid BY
Genin for a ticket 10 Jenny Lind's concert, il now
the centre Of fashionable excitement and specula-
ton We have given an account OF the various
pre- iuns and prices paid for slips, OF pews, at the
several auctions "going, going-almost gone," and
shall finish the work in the course Of the week.
We do not know how far DR.. Hawks entsrtains
the Swedenborg doctrine of future state but
should the reverend divine take the same delight
in the great hereafter as he does in things Of life,
when we are issuing our spiritual Herald in the
other world, DR.. Hawks will be rejoicing AZ the
fashionable sale of season and life tickets to his
house of prayer and exhortation. Professor Bush
and others have startled our Catholic faith little,
with their explanations of the "Heaven and He'll"
seen by Swedenborg, and philosophically described
by that elegant courter, metallurgist prophet, and
divine. We are told that what men most delight
in here, they will most rejoice in hereafter. II this
should be the case, we know our fate, and can
conceive of two spiritual machines, throwing off at
the rate of ten or twelve thousand copies, in every
mundane hour-for we should have to reckon by
the City Hall elock-and thus influencing the
rious beings whose greatest JOY in this world is to
read the Herald, still TO promote and preserve the
Union. The imagination, however, is oyerwhelm-
ed with perfect tempest of conjectures on this
point. We dare not pursue it farther. Eternity is
a vast thought. Yet we cannot avoid imagining
the spectacle which DR.. Hawks and his ad-
mirers will present in the spiritual world. There
is no doubt that he and they are most happy
in the sale of the slip tickets, by which they
all desire TO ascend TO Paradise. The women
of Dr. Hawks congregation are said to be very
pretty and when they have thrown off their
chrysslis state, transformed to angels they will
create as much delight in heaven as they do here,
and will. doubtless he quite as attractive. The
preaching of DR.. Hawks already has had its inlu-
ence. 1t bears a resemblance TO the results of
Jenny Linds first concert, and the STEW more
left,' we dare say, will go of like hot cakes.
1t has been whispered that the enormous pre-
mums paid for pews al Calvary Church, in some in
stances have been brou ght about by almost tn same
liberal method instituted by Barnum. We do not
know how this may be. Pews with particular
parsons, are positively popular nowadays, and if
people will only FIJI them every Sunday, one
will rejoice more than we al this growHg interest
In the gospel. We have departed far from the faith
Of our fathers. The old m Getting house was bless
ing and no mistake. Our modern temples OF wor
ship are fine, but badly filed. The preachers
voice sounds hollow in the almost deserted aisles
and seats little of the primitive spirit of visiting
pew, well as owning it, is what is wanted; and
if Or. Hawks can only hold on to his congregation
Tor Elk months, we shall no; despair, but really
have some hopes springng out of Calvary. True
piety. ard not the popular display of it, ought TO be
generously encouraged.