Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1857-08-28

A CURIOUS fact for our Reformed Protestant
Dutch Church readers is recorded in late
English periodical. lu the city of Norwich,
England there isl Dutch Protestant Congregation
founded in the time of the Duke Of Alya, by the
refugees who fed from Holland to escape his
bloody sway. The estates bequeathed to it re-
main among their descendants TO this day.
These have place of worship in the Black
Friars' Conventional Church.
Service is only performed in this church once
year, a Sunday in midsummer, TO prevent
the lapse Of the estates. The sermon is preached
by the Chaplain to the Netherlands Embassy,
first in Dutch and then in English. The preach
or, for some years. has been the Rev. DR.. Gehe,
minister also of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars
The congregation is said to possess great many
valuable registers and old books, large folio
Leyden Bible, an Eizepier. The imprint reads
thus:
Tor LKYpEs.--By do weduwe ende Erfgena-
men van JOhan Elzeyier, Beck druckers van de
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 a splurge on. Suppose our Reverend
fiend Dir. Dewitt, calls his attention to this sub
ject in the next Christian InteRgcncer.
An ELOQUENT APPEAL Would to God, ex.
claims the authoress Of Hint on Dress and
Beauty Mrs. Il. O0kes Smith,, would to God
nv lips were touched, as with coal from bis
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 weeT
and suffer aud die, that we may be daintily
cared for and who, by the abundance Of oui
adorning grow weak an emuous, and finally
|. deprayed aud lost. 1t does seem to me, that ou
of the depths of womanhood We might do some
thing to take the sword out OF the souls OF thes'
bruised ones, for every wrong inflicted upon ont
Of our kind, is a wrong inflicted upon ourselves
. Wo 10 fhe roman iphoss selfish PANTY leads her
pay seantily for he iaJor Of such toho erdcts 1uc
-, and pavs hiils, and phO cdFelessiy lrithholds N
pav tp6en il Is due, and thus compeis The setcin
roman 10 lose time and strength in collecting he
small dues II is not well to shut ourselves j
our gorgeous saloons, with adornings such as
Cleopatra might have envied, aud which migl
I have lent new graccs to an Aspasia-t is ne
: well to 60 forth conquering and to conquer in a
y the pomp Of exclusiyeness and wealth, while tf
q rude laugh, and the coarse jest, and the depra'
y ngs of vanity are converting our kind from b.
! ing lower than the angels, into shapes Of darl
= ness so lost and so miserable that the hells tn
- receive them might weep over the melancho
40 ruins
er NOZZLE SENTIMENTS Condemn no man I
ID not thinking as you think. Let evey one enj
d. the full and free liberty Of thinking for himse
ie Let every man use his own judgment, since eve
ID man must give an account of himself 10 god.
to Abhor every approach, in any kind Of degr'
re to the spirit Of persecution. Ii yon cannot reas
h. or pers uade man into the truth, never attem
he to force him into it. If love will not compel b
to come, leave him to god, the Judge of all-Jo
er Wesley.