Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-21
RELIGIOUS SUMMARY.

| MISS EMMA IARDINGE VIII speak III w ASH
burn Hall, Sunday afternoon and evening, at
the usual hours of service. The regular series
of Sunday lectures before the Spirituasts'
Association will be discontinued during the
summer months, but will be resumed on the
first Sunday in September, and will then be
held regularly every Sunday, in Washburn
| Hall, as heretofore.
Rev. Thomas Whittemore, d. D., will
preach in the Town Hall in Spencer, tomor-
row.
In place of the afternoon service at the
church of the Unity, for the future, until fur
ther notice, there will be an evening service,
commencing at O'Clock.
AT that noisy meeting of the Tract Society
where it was resolved not to publish anything
against the African slave trade, Rev. DIR.
Bacon of New Haven got chance to speak as
follows:
"This society has tract on the evils of to-
! bacco, and yet one of the venerable brethren
has this morning handed out paper and ask
ed me to take quid. Laughter. think it
is time to end all the foolery, venture to call
it. Yet we are told the business Of the society
is to circulate tracts. 1t circuates tracts
against the use of tobacco and the culture of
tobacco; yet how many of these venerable
men who handed us the regular ticket to vote
to-day, how many of them are there on whose
conscience rests the deadly sin of using tobac
col Great Laughter. We maintain that the
society may have opinions, and can circulate
them, which, if they were to be universally
adopted, how great would be the desoaton
sent among tobacco growers through all the
lower counties of Virginia, and all along the
| banks of the Connecticut, from Wethersfield
to Sutiield! Great Laughter. But we are
not to have any opinion at all about a certain
wickedness which the laws of the United
States for more than 40 years has pronounced
to be crime against human nature-pirdcy.
| lCheers, great applause and Kisses, and cries
of Good" good"
| We should use little moral sense, little
common sense, and walk right through the
| cobweb meshes of such speeches as these.
You doubtless remember the words of him who
said, 'Ye who find heavy burdens grieyous to
be borne, and lay them upon other mems
| shoulders, yet will not touch them with one of
your fingers Sir, is there any member of the
executive committee of this track society, just
reelected, on whose table sparkles the red
wine? knoW there as! More cries of Good
cheers and hisses.) Yet here we are binding
these burdens upon dancing, and tobacco and
wine-drinking, and laying them on mems
| shoulders, when our shoulders do not bear the
least part of that burden. Is it not time to
| have done with such tom-foolery as that, and
address ourselves to the weghtier matters of
the law, such as righteousness, (great cheer
ing, mercy (renewed cheering) and truth I!
"The African slave trade That subject
year ago would have been called an abstraction.
A year hence it will be a political question.
| We are now upon the narrow isthmus between
these two positions. (Great cheering.) In a
| year or two more we may have ministers
preaching here in New York, as some gray
head quoted over there, Go and buy nggers
of the heather, if you want them'-that is of
the Africans. (Here DIR. Bacon's voice was
losttor few moments amid the great confus-
ion of cries, cheers, and hisses.) | do hope
that DIR. Springs resolution will be carried
now, and that even that faint testimony of the
moral sense of this American Tract Society
may not be obliterated." Shouts and con-
tinued cheering, with hisses)
The Conversion" of Lola Montez is an
nounced. She has, it is sad quietly settled
down an humble, peaceful, exemplary, relig-
ious woman, in her own domicl in Picadilly,
London, having amaSsed sufficient sum to
purchase and pay for house, which is now
the receptaclesand center of a large number Of
wealthy and pious enthusiasts of London,
male and female Among her most constant
anu liitlilate Vlsllors is MIS- 1histle"alte, lor-
merry an actress, who was Familiarity known
as Laura Bel, and was about as notorious as
Lola herself About the time that she turned
from the error OF her ways she won the heart
is nny hrfetr amn snn o i;nnt in F@tor
Hall. II was She who was the nrinrinai in.
strument in bringing about Lolo,s chance II
is said that Mrs, 7Thistlewaite daily drives her
chariot with fonr milk-wbite horses throngh
the streets of London. on missions Of mercy
and religious teachings.
The North Ecclesiastical Society," nr Rush.
nelrsl voted on the 16th that thev would not
proceed to the erection Of the new church
which has been for some fine under contem'
plation. until after the settlement of a new mas.
tor. There was an animated discussion + ia
claimed on the one side, that this vote was
passed by the friends of Rev Mr. Helmer, who
were piqued at rot having their way in the
settlement of a new pastor On the other
hand, it is claimed that it would not be prudent
to proceed to the erection of a large, expensive,
and ornate architectural ornament of the city,
i's' 1 were pipcufeu anu suth