New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-03
Sg,pouS oF ore SoCiai SYSTEM
IN CurICl ooiNu.

s,a r,rp a,v requested noi "a take coats until tho,
ale given then, b, the sexton. Pcth-ps hny people
WOO 81 a,cd ses,ciusIy Throughout, the eide house.
just within tic central door was heavy ingc oil the
f., o,n.,c.king "stian.cts," stretching away mno
thin io~ ara the side bat st IN thick ranks
filing the entire spsccan hanging upon the dc usivc
hope Of earning good seats oy that hour Of patient
waiting.
Nv friend obowed his way ntO the notice OF The
sexton. A brief conference, and the allpotont ms
gisiau who alone hal the open sesame to those pew
doors was waving me for yard blaody. We went
halfway up the aisle. tho pew door opened, stepped
in; l.. stood lowering in the background l turned
suddenly to the usher:
"wid 700 not give seat here to the gentleman
who is with me ?"
He locked rolentingly, and stammered as If taken
sback, "weIi, you zee, i's against the rule. Per-
haps will though, by aud by, but that's our rule.
III give him seat somewhere"
He was gone looked around. He was shutting
l. int seat far back by re door, where he sat sur
rounded by double file of gentlemen This, then, Is
one Of wonaD's rghs in sanctaary-the right 70
srava,e TOW ard the pulpit in consideration, doubt
less. for beirg excluded from the pulpit An admra-
b G principle of compensation had supposed that
in all pot,ers' feds" for stranger men and wo
men were ranged side by side
On they came steady, steady throng The sex
tor went up and down, seating the poor astrays as
best be might; and so was either from my sugges-
tion OF somehirg ere he frequently conducted gen.
tIemsn up above, when be happened to be IN comps
Nv with ladies' and sometimes they had excellent
places. Then began IT, poncer.
"Wonoer if l.. were six feet tns inches high, with
the imperial port OF an alderman if they woald have
seated him tbere7 Wonaer If my bonnet were Gov
ereo with laces AM had less service, thst would
have made any difference7 There are those people !.
They must be IT augers by the way they glance with
interest at the style Of the church. but then they have
all such grand sir and are 80 superoy dressed
Whist excellent sea they have-gentemen and all;
but that beautiful pillar running up Ito the gothic
roof threatens to stand provokirgly in my way when
The minister begins to preach. That ubiquitous ma
gciaD has seated these two ladies here at my side and
they like the pillar Iess than do. They have been
ttttriDg and whispering it this fifteen minutes
threatening removal. They are dressed lie the
great velvet butterflies of Summer. Wonder if this
usher gnome is also physiognomistl
Dear me This problem IL com ,lex enough TO the
uIpitiated. / never heard of but one attraction of
gravitat in natural philosophy but here seems to
be al intricate series Of attractions more or less com
pcateo, ali ciciDg around that pulpit where the
minister breaches the Faberhood of God and the broth
erhood of Man. That sexton must be rae artist.
How he adjusts everybody tremendously. YOnder q
scoIe or nose are waiting, almost clamoriug to be
sea'ed. There arises faint protesting murm1r; yet
The magician bears himself with equanmity. See him
thrust back several who are bent upon having seats
III spie Of our rule" compelling them to wait his
bidding.
The privileged families nearly all seated, now,
each with vell.dressed gentleman at the head,
bandly stationed, sentinel like ct hs own pew door
One OF these has ust deDdrfed in manner, and if
mistake not in words against receiving stranger"
into his private sitting room at the church. Now
forgive the sexton
Service commenced. That unlucky pillar was directly
In my way yet it did mt entirely exclude the speaker
from observation. When he stood erect he in full
view; but when be beat forward over bis manuscript
it 'ehesded him; ard one could not but look with
growing horror upon that rotuDd, beadess trunk, still
pouring out sonoroUs paragraphs somewhere from it's
deep lungs. He is deemed heretcal by all tue sricor
a. cts-"a brilliant esssyis but little be ter than an
"iuhdei;" and whenever saw him standing up as
VIII ,le man, and then sudcenly his head severed
at a st oke suggested direu smilitudts of the most
cold-blooded II Biological surgery. Appalling scenes
of religious iDquisorals vent teeming through the
BRAIN I'll in desperation usbed one side OF my poor
boz net fat against the wall in the hope of thas eudng
the gulotine. But it was of no The schsmadcal
preacher remained still about as much beheaded
to my vision as in my semi-orthodox thought
could just see that bis ears were not very greatly
larger than some other peoples.
10 despair shut my eyes, still leaning against the
friendly wall; and after consopg, brief thought that
the crushed bonnet mattered little since the signs of
the tines fully indicated that it really was time to get
a new one, listened quietly till the sermon ended
1t seems l.. had been hidden TO go up higher by
fitnd Of his, who took compassion upon him, as he
sat there uren the frozen outskirts Of devotion, and IN
that way lost trace of him. Surprising him far in
the n ar drifted with the Quito wing crowd, aud
rot fooipg him. was swept onward std, even to the
outer door 1t was less easy 10 turn back and make
Roadway against the Gu rent; bU after sundry other
pedils 10 that ulfaunate bonnet, | was rcoined by
L.. who, listening with some surprise, as we walked
home, 10 my remarks upon the discourse, at last very
naivey said; "Why, you went to sleep, didntyou 7.
This recalls church going experience OF several
years go On bitter cold day, while stopping in
New-York sat out alone TO one of the magnificent
ny-,housand-doliar churches.
"You had better stay at home, or accept OF an
escort said my hostess laughing, as she glanced at
my great blanket shawl. They will not give you 8
scat"
"Then will stand up I replied nowse discoI-
certed.
But they did give me seat nevertheless, closely
behind one Of those ponderously convenient pillars
The church was far from over two thirds
full.
knew little Irish gill in the country who stole out
one washing day, ragged barefooted, and barehsaded