Weekly Delaware State journal, statesman and blue hen's chicken. (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-18??, 1857-08-28


ouRIoUs fact for our Reformed Protestant
Dutch Church readers is recorded in u late
English periodical. In the city of Norwich,
England there is q Dutch Protestant Congregation
founded in the time Of the Duke of Alva, by the
refugees who fed from Holland to escape his
bloody sway. The estates bequeathed to it re-
main among their descendants 20 this day.
These have a place Of worship in the Black
Friars' Conventional Church.
Service is only performed in this church once
n year, on n Sunday in midsummer, to prevent
the lapse of the estates The sermon is preached
by the Chaplain ts the Netherlands Embassy,
first in Dutch and then in English. The preach
er, for come years, has been the Rev. DR.. Gehle,
minister also of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars.
The congregation is said to possess great many
valuable registers and old books, lnrge folio
Leyden Bible, an Eizepier. The imprint re,Lds
thus:
Tor LEYDEN.-By de Weduwe ende Erffgena-
men van Johan Elzeyier, Beck druckers van do
Academic, 1868.
We hope that the first time any of our literary
Knickerbockers visit England, they will make an
exploration of this old Congregation. 1t would
be just the thing for Brother Theodore Cuyler
to make splurge on. Suppose our Reverend
ftiend Dr. Dewitt, calls his attention to this sub-
ject in the next Christian Intelligcneer.
AN ELOQUENT APPEAL Would to God,' ex-
claims the authoress of Hints on Dress and
Beauty, Mrs. L. 0akes Smith, would to God
my lips were touched as with coal from his
own altar, that might ssy something in behalf
Of our sisters, who toll and spin that we may be
adorned beyond the lilies of the field; Who weep
and suffer and die, that we may be daintily
cared for and who, by the abundance OF our
adorning, grow weak an emulous, and hnally
deprayed and lost 1t does seem to me, that out
Of the depths of womanhood we might do some
thing to take the sH Hord out Of the souls of these
bruised ones, for every wrong inflicted upon one
of our Kind, is a wrong inflicted upon ourselves.
1Go 10 he lpoman tphose selfish vanity leads her 10
psu sednty for the labor Of such, pho etdets much
and pays htle and rho cdrelessly iodhH@ds the
pau tchea il is due, and thus coHpets the se'0lng
i9oman to lose time and strength IN collecting her
small dies. 1t is not we'll to shut ourselves in
our gorgeous saloons, with adornings such as a
CLEOPATRA might have envied, and which might
have lent new graces 10 an Aspasia-it IS not
well to 20 forth conquering and to conquer in all
the pomp of exclusiveness and wealth, while the
rude laugh, and the coarse jest, and the depraV-
iugs Of vanity are converting our kind from be-
ing lower than the angels, into shapes oi dark-
ness so lost and SO miserable that the hells tha'
receive them might weep over the melancholy
ruins
NOZZLE SEYrINkxrs.-Condemn no man fol
not thinking as you think. Let evey one EMO,
the full and free liberty Of thinking for himself
Let every m IN use his own Judgment, since ever,
man must give an account Of himself to god-
Abhor every approach, in any kind Of degree
to the spirit of persecution. II you cannot reaso
or persuade man into the truth, never attemI
70 force him into it, If love will not compel hii
to come, leave him to god, the Judge of all.-Joh
: Wesley.