New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-02
FROM BOSTON.
From An Occasional Correspondent.

Inc hoy W eek oil NtW-Enghnd IL JUST over
In the good old time il used to be only the Civil
Weck-tLe one which saw the annual regeneration
of the Provincial aud State Governments, until the
birthday Of the State was stupidy changed and set
forward-Or back-tO The beginning Of January,
about thirty years ago From the earliest times,
the last Wednesday in May was the great holiday
of Massachusetts,; and, from the fneness Of the
weather in average years at that season, II was the
very best time Of the year 10 have one. But, from
some absurd notion Of saving expense by holding
only one instead Of two sessions Of the General
Court, tie change made and one Of the very few
week day Sabbatbs we ever had taken away from
u.s. ! am happy to believe that nothing whatever
was saved by the alteration, the expenses Of the
State have always gone on growing bigger and big
ger. In fact, by completing the organization of the
Legislature and distributing the business among
committees at the short session, much Of the work
could be done in the vacation and so the duration
Of the hong one materially abridged. have stand
ing grudge against the men who went and murdered
20 pretty holiday as ! remember this one to have
been III my childhood.
This same week was also selected for the reason
that it brought together all the magnates from all
parts Of the State, as the time OF holding the Con-
yentiOn Of Congregational Ministers which was an
the Governor itself And when other societies were
formed in these later and evil days, for doing the
pTspsT work Of the Church, they also chose the
same pouOd for the same reason, as the time OF
Lc.6iIR Ac anniversaries So Boston streets, that
week as somebody described them once, are - black
"wti psssstcrs." But there is no longer the peace
whlxn ie walls Of our Zion which used to make
them beasssfll. Those impracticablc AboltiOnists
have succeeded in turning nearly all of them into
hOtbeds Of their own pernciOus agitation. Not
content with holding Convention Of their own, in
which they pain all cody and patriotic ears by the
way in which they speak OF institutions, temporal
and spiritual and to which all sorts OF people will per-
sist in thronging with the perversity which belongs
to our fallen nature, they have ntruded themselves
into the most sacred recesses Of the hottest assem-
bles. They have caused the Tract Society to snub
Dr. Adams again, and. over bis back, the American
Tract Society which gives added fragrance TO
the OdOr Of your New-lOrk sanctity, and which
made him member of its Publishing Committee
the other day. This Society claimed the right or
the courtesy, Of naming the member to serve for
New-England on that Committee, and elected Presi-
dent Hopkins Of Williams College, in the place Of
Dr. Adams, VINO had but one vote to comfort his
righteous soul We shall now see how the saints in
New-York will conduct themselves at this trying
juntture and whether they will yield to this anati
cal pressure, or stand firm to their opinion that
-Southside pety, like Southside Madeira is proved
and bouquet over any mere Northern grOwths.
Vital goodness of the natural brand, however,
was not left entirely without witness, as you have
told your readers already, during this carnival OF
fanatcism. The Southern Aid Society again ex-
planned its new patent method for curing sinners
without pain. Your neighbOr, the Rev. DIR.
Bethune set forth the process with great lucldity
so as to make the most impenitent of that large
class impatient to have it tried upon themselves.
Like children and the Sugar-Coate Pill, they cry
"for it," The secret hes simply in saying nothing
about the sin that most easily besets their neOphytes
and to make them as comfortable as possible under
it, Their practice as to spiritual diSempers RESENT
bes that Of those friendly physicians who cure
bodily ailments by savory and exhiarang decOctions
OF Sarsaparla or Wild Cherry-who at least
comfort, if they do not cure. i remember once
hearing member If the regular Faculty exclalm,
OIL reading certificate Of an excellent Temperance
man of the very longest standing, to the comfort
lug effects OF one Oi these lodthsome indictments
on some i'll his flesh was heir to, "Why, to be sure
che never had a good stiff glass of grOg before in
"hs life, and he didn't know how good it was
The application Of this soothing system to the cure
of souls cannot fail of extensive popularity and sue
cess We trust that it may even make the patients
70 whom it is applied every whit spiritually sound
as the good physicians who administer it.
You will be glad to hear that the American
Board of Foreign Missions have it in serious coz
opcrations in heather lands. DR.. Adams and DR..
Bethune as memOers of that venerable body, ill.,
tend bringing IT home with power to the minds Of
the Board at It's next meeting. method of treat
ment so sovereign for the inward bruises OF Southern
sinners could hardly be less elicacious for the spir-
itual malades Of the inhabitants of Pagan lands,
which must be, Of necessity, of 50 much less mag-
pant type. Instructions are to be issued to the
missionaries, should these brethren meet with the
encouragement they hope for, to abstain from any
alusion to the practices and opinions OF the nations
10 which they are sent which could by any posi-
blty shock their preudices or interfere with their
business. The apostles to IlindOStan for example,
VIII be strictly prohibited from preaching against
the system Of caste which there prcvallS-sO much
mildcr and more humane than that existing in the
Southern missionary fed-Or from making any un-
pleasant reflections on Juggernaut, such domestic
institutions as the burning of widows or the drown
no of children. The missionaries to Turkey are TO
| saw no word in derogatiOn of MOhammed (Which,
IA do them Justice believe they have never done
their labors beng mainly devoted to the conversion
of the Armenian Christians from the OF their
wsys TO the Five Points Of CALVIN or any Of the
| institutions he established Buddhism, Fosm Fe-
tshism, are to be terribly let alone in the several
| countries where they prevail. The brethren de-
tailed 70 the Feeiee Islands aud New-Zealand are to
| be especially cautioned against showing any repug-
nance to roasted missionary, piping hot from the
| .pit. or delicate "cold clergyman on the side
.'bos I'd provided, of course that the arder IS
furnished from some other denomination than their
| own. by wise and conciliatsry like this,
it is the confident hope of the patcntccs of this new
invention, that Christianity can be made easy and
| Morality level to the meanest capacity. And SEE
no reason whatever why this process should not be
sufficient to bring the ZOOOO Cafires, flotlentots
and Canniba Islanders into the Christian fold quite
as cfcctuay the objects of the pious zeal OF the
Southern Aid Society and even to make them, pos
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