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Old Knicks correspondent. Henry, thus describes what IS meant by being A member of crack church," in Gotham
 Those who can't pay eight hundred or thou sand dollars n c fashionable or " crack church " are obliged to stay at home, unless they are hum
 ble enough to go to some of GodstemPles, where Christianity is nos only pveaehed but praciiced.-- We found oar way into crack church" last Sunday, in the upper part of the ely. Casting our left eye as we entered on magnificent prayer
 book, we observed in gilt letters the name Of millionaire with whose early history we were fully eonveFsant. He started in life as clam boy, and the old cam boat 10 which he belonged used to be stationed near Washington g.arket until all it's cargo of clans were sold out. He first acquired few dollars capital This he invested in the fish
 trade; speculated n eels, porgles, and other fish made a large sum of money, and finally succeeded- in "cornerng shad ]" bought up all the stock of the season, both in and out of the waiei and sold them afterwards at his own prices, and made bO,
 GOO dollars. He cut bis market associations, bought tots up town, now lives in the Fifth Avenue, and is " big dog" As wealth increased he found himself at the head of the !" cod fish arisocraey" to which of couBe he had access, from his former business. Ph3ion the barber was sent fot; hs daughters had their hair eoInbed out and dressed for the first time; teachers of music, drawing, Italian, French, etc, were hiredj old NIT. Porgie joined the church, and took costly pew, We happened 10 get into tt but we no sooner discov cred where we were, than we made up our minds 10 yacate. We were too late. Old Mr. Porge came sailing up tle aisle with his wife and daugh- ters dressed ss though they had known whatwas
 what" all then lives. To our astoniShment, in-
 stead of shutting the pew door in our face he
 ask el us to keeppur seat" And didn't we have
 a nice time Of il The mother looked at uS--So
 dld the daughters and they snutiled, and smelt
 their salts, wiggled about as though one of their 1 fathers shad was in the siP. We felt annoyed,
 provoked forgot our prayers didn't hear bies- ssi word of the sermon, and came away disgusted
 with hypocri:ical upstarts, and with determlna-
 ton next Sunday to go to a free church. Our
 ideas of pure, undeded religion are drawn from
 the recorded life Of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
 Christ. He was living example of hrmanity,
 charity, love in fact, of all that was good and lovely. Some of his chosen disciples were very
 close imaors of their Lord and Master; and though they were by profession fish catchers i've are not
 aware that they were clam catchers or speculators) 1 like Mr. Porgie) they were not above other men because of their success or money. We wonder
 whether their will be any upper places, best seats,
 private pews, in the great temple above, where
 the souls of rich people may be at their ease, and
 where poor folks can't intrude Christian churches Christian rich men We will say
 nothing more and then we shall have less idle
 words to answer for at the day of judgment. Our costly churches are filled with Dimes sort of peo- l pie, and are no places for the poor Lazarus.