New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-15

full the first precept W ,uh be-tDe oeaiess iuo' o
of IT, ard let half the heat go mp the chimney you
can afford tiis don't try TO live in gen'tel fash
ion but sick 10 the WAYS Of the honest farm house.
There were good many comfortable farn-eouses
scattered about Rocklsnd. Tie bet OF them weIe
som, thing of the following pattern when zoe
,nnerseded of late by petentious, but nhhi'e
sss plea,nq hind OF rustic architecture htie oaeA
from the road seated directly on the green zoo, rI
plain wooden building two stories In 'front.' WIN iVpe
roof sopng backward to within lew zee. /. cn,;ed
Oronnd JIis ike the manEon-house, IL ooi1eI1
from an old English pattern. Cottage OF lnis io9Ii
NAV be seeI In Lancashire, for instance, Always WIN
the sane honest, bomely look, as II lheir Hos
know.dged their relationship TO the soh out VI W.
they sprung. The walls were unphhIeu ou' Vuine.
nv The slow action of sun and air and ram 10 qet
dove or slute-coor. An old broken milestone az the
door-a el-sweep pointing like hnger 10 me heav
ems, which tie shining ROUND Oh "a'ei ,
M al like a dark unseslIDg eye-a single large eEn u
little ut one side-a barn twice as Dig us Tue house-a
eattle-yard, with
"The white hons tossing above the WALL
some eds in pasture or in crops, with low stone walls
round thel-a row Of beehives-a gardei-paien, WIN
roots and currantbushes and many-hued bollyhocks,
and swollen.stemmed globe-headed seeding onions,
and ma,igolds and hOwerdeluCes, ard lady s-de-
lghts and peories crowding in together, with south,
ernwood in the boders and woodbine and hops aiid
morning. glories climbing az they got chapceIthese
were tie features by the Rocbland-born CHILDREN
remembered the farm house, when they had grown to
lie men, Such the recolctons that come over poor
saor-b'ys crawling oct ON reelnS yaIos 10 reei Top
sails az their vessels stagger around the stormy Cape
aud such the fitting images that make The eyes OF
old country-bon merchants look dim and dJtUy,a
they s in their city palaces, warm with the afeldih-
flush Of the req wave out Of wLlch Memory afses'
as Aphrode from the green waves OF TIE ocean,
Two meeting -houtes stood ON two eninences facing
each other and looking like couple of bghtpgcoc
with their necks stght up In the aras,i they would
flap their roofs the next thing, and crow out OF ther
uIttretehed sieepes and peck at each others ghtS
with their sharp pointed wSatDercOcke.
The first was good pattern of the real old ishoned
New. England Westinghouse. II was largo barn
| with windows fronted by q square tower crowhed
with kind of woeden bell inverted and raised Oh legs
out If which slender sIire with the sEar-Oiled
weathercock at it's summit Inside, tall, square rews
with Tapping seats and gallery running round three
sides of lie building On the fourth side the pulIr,
with huge, dusty soundiDg-board hanging over ~
Here preached the Rev. Pierepont Honeywood, DID,
succe ssor. after number OF generations, TO tie Office
and the parsonage OF tie Rev. Didymus Bean before
mentioned but not suspected If any Of his alleged
her, ea. He held TO tue old faith Of the purans, aud
occasionally delivered q discourse which was consd-
cred by the hardheded t'eoioglans OF his parsh to
have settled the whole matter fully and hnaly 30 tat
now there good logical basis LAID down Tor TIE
Millennium which might begin at once upon the plat
form OF his demont ratiOns. Yet the Rev. Dr. Honey
wood was fonder of preac ing plain, practical sermons
about tie duties of life and showing lis Christianity
in abundant good works among his People. III was
noticed by some few Of hs flock not without comment,
that the great majority Of his texts Gene IRON the Gos-
in vaiiOas benevolent enterprises whish brought him
inio relations with ministers ard kiud loarted hymen
of other denominations. lie was III fact man OF
very warm, open, and exceedingly hudR disposition,
and although bred by clerical father, whore motto
was "Sd ANNA mcG cum PEritaAiS," be eXercfed
Lis human faculties in the harness Of his ancient faith
with such freedom that the tape OF got 20 oOse they
did not interfere grt at with the circulation Of the
warm blood through his system. Once In while be
seemed think il necessary 10 out with grand
doetinal sermon, and then be would alse away for
while into preaching mons duties TO each other aud
20 sorty aud lit hard perhaps &c come Of the actual
wees Of the tine and place, aud Dsst with such ten
derness and elOqu-nce the great de III and breadth
Of true Christian love and charity that his Oldest de-
shook Ills head, and wished lehad SHOWN ~ inueh
interest when he preaching, three Sabbaths back
on Professionalism Ia his discourse agsintt the "a.
bclGans But he was sound in the tithi 40 doubt OF
that Did be not preside ct the council held IN the
town Of Tamarck on the other side Of the mountains
which expelled it, c for maiIisiuing hereuea
doct rines As presiding officer, he did not vote, Of
course but there doubt that be was all righti
be had some OF the Edwards blood IN him. ard that
couldnt very well let him 60 wrong.
Tbe meetng-house OIL tie other and opposite summit
was Of a moro modern style, con,idered by many
great improvement the OLD New-England model, 20
that IL IL rot uncommon for country parish 70 pun
down lie old meeting -bonfe Which has been preacbed
in for huldrd years co. and put up one OF these
more elegant ediices The new building was Ia Shat
may be called the horid shiugie-Gotnic manner Us
rinaele. ard GRO kets and other ornaments were Ike
the body o. the building all pine wood-en admirable
material il IL very soft AID easily worked ana eah
be painted Of any color detired lnfde the walls were
stuc oed ia imitation OF stonebfst dafk brow u
| square then two lght-browD squares, then another
dark brown squArc, and ~, . represent the acci-
dental difierencs Of shade always noticeable NJ the
r..si stones OF which walls are built. To be sure, the
architect could not help getting his par;y.coloned
a. uarer in almost regular rhythmicbl order ~ ihOse
of ches.buard but nobody avoid doing tblngs ia
a systt matte and serial way odeed, people who wish
70 plant trees In natural cluups know very wei that
/ kgef, frDu sklru regular luge and
meii, al figures unless by trck other ~ that
one Of throwing PEEK OF potatoes up into the r and
sticking IN n tree wherever potato happens 20 tnll
The IeWs Of this Westinghouse were the usual Oolo
fore them 20 support their hymn-boOkt liable only 70
occasional contact witt tie back 81 the next Pew =
beads or hornets, and Jlace running under tie sEi 81
thai pew where hai- could be depos'ed-Awaysa ~ the
NIX u the owner IN Gaze Of rjuIyby boots or ecAes
| In this meeiiug-houso preached tie Rev ChGunc1
FarH Gather divine OF tie "LiberI school, a. u t
commonly called Lted al that famous college which
used 20 b. thought twenty thirty years ago, to have
| The monopoly Of traiDing young nlen ~ the nieef
forms If beesy. Hit u5istratious attended with
4 decency, bat not folio ed with enthusiasm. The
beauty of virtue got g. ie old ttory at lat. "lbe
| moral dignity Of LumAn piture' ceased TO excite q
thiill of sad facton eier ecme hundred repeiitons
II grew 10 he doll business this preaching against
stealing ana intemperarce while lie knew very well
| that the thtv6s yrONling round orchards aud
empty bonner Instead Of being tnere 10 hear the ser
mon, and that the druukardr, being rarely church
pOsrs get little good by tie statistics and eloquent up
| peas Of he preacher. Every and then, however,
lie Rev. 81. tairwtatler let Oh IOeI.c dIscOurfe
against bs bolghbOr opposite, viicb walked Lis people
up little. bot II was langud cOhgrcga Ion, AT beet
ant TO Ctay AWAY from meeting IN The afternoon,
| ard not at al given 10 extra evening stryioes The
minister unlike bis rival Of tie other aide Of The way
| was a down hearted and tiud kind VI man. lie went
On preachngU be had been taught 10 preach, but be
| had misgivirgs at times There wrs a little Roman
Catholic 81 urch the foot Of the hill where hs