Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-10-02
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Hall. from which we make some ex-
tracts:
THE COMPANY.
1t wants three quarters of an hour to
service time, and we have full leisure to
look about us. The heat is overwhelm-
ing outside, but the hall is excellently
ventilated, and although hundreds are
pouring in, and the place is becoming
crammed, it is not as the popular phrase
goes, ito sufocation." The admirable
/ proportions of the hall, its lightness, and
elegant arrangement throughout, draw
forth enthusiastic comments on every side
I The company-for it is scarcely con-
gregation in the religious sense of the
words extremely well dressed-scar-
cely shabbily clad person to be SEEM
The body of the hall is filed with rich
| people of the middle class-the stalls in
the galleries with the aristocracy, array
ed as for a gala, and as merry and chat
ty as at fancy fair. Everything de-
notes that it is not the Lords day-that
we are not at church, and are not assem-
bled for religious worship. AS the stalls
fill, the coup dell is equal to that of the
opera, and the buzz of conversation is
quite as cheerful. Looking through one
of the windows we see the lake and a
pasteboard representation of distant
mountain scenery, which, when remem-
bered in connection with the various py-
rotechnic displays witnessed by us il
past days from that waters edge, adds
greatly to the secularity Of the occasion
This worldly effect is still further con-
firmed by observing how thoroughly
every one seems to have left the thought
of religion and worship behind him. A
few seats to our right sits a gentleman
well known in the House of Commons
with his hat on, reading the Economist
/ Some one else Immediately under our
eye, has the Examiner. The circum-
stance is suggestive, and we count IA
persons reading newspapers, and make a
round guess that at least a hundred and
fifty gentlemen keep their hats on. Nev.
er before did we feel so strongly the vir-
tue and the reason Of consecrated places
With the one exception, that nearly
every one Of the assembly was furnished
with what might have been hymn book
prayer book or Bible, there was nothing
in the place, the company, or the occa
sion, to lead the stranger TO suppose thai
anything like the worship of God had
entered into the remotest contemplation
Of those present.
PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF MR.. SPUR
GEON.
The personal appearance Of Mr.. Spur
geon is not in his favor. Nature has no
blessed him with a good development, a.
the psychologists would say his aspec
is forbidding, and the expression of hi,
face bctokens an inferior intellectual or
ganization. He has a most powerful
voice, but a coarse provincial aceen
spells much of it that is good. Thus h
pronoun ees pray as preay, God as Gard
holy as hauley, truth as trooth. Although
however, vulgarity is the CHARACTERISED
Of his voice, signs of cultivation are no
wanting, and the his are never at fault
His loud notes are those of the actor
not OF the orator they are from use an,
knack, not from any actual suitabilit,
arising out Of what he is saying, an,
are rather mannerism than a grace
Still the voice is clear and penetrating
and not person in that vast assembl,
could fail TO hear every word with per
feet distinctness.