New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-01
HOOPS.

We are glad to see, in these latter and evil
days that the Church is addressing herself 10
Che rc.renchiag some Of the redundancies ana ex-
t.syagances of the age. That such trifes as
Slavery should remain unconsidercd Is no
more. than we should expect from the discretion
and prudence which our Zion hath ever mingled
with her zeal sgaBst popular and profitable SIMS
And yet, such is the hardness OF the unregen-
crate heart, the Shareholders make the preaching
Of our ministers and the action Of our churches
uain causes of their disinhertiug us and turning
Is adrit 70 shift for ourselves 1t was N VAN
.hat the whole NorlhlaHd reeked with hoSannahs To
the Fugitive Slave Law, that DR.. Lord confounded
most Scientifically all the Sophiststhat questonedthe
IDENTITY of Slavery and Christianity thar Dr,
Adams went down and spied out the iatness OF
the southside, and lifted up his voice ana 'estl-
fad thereunto, that the Episcopal Convention OF
this Diocese refused to blame the slaye-trade,
that DR.. Yinton and DR.. Van Dyke have just
borne pupit-witness TO the divinity OF Slavery
Il has been all in vain, and we are all OF us,
these cody men included, turned out into the
cold 10 perish, from the withdrawal Of the crumbs
which fell from our Southern masters tables I!
II is refresbmeDt to our spirits
q know, while piuing under this In
teIdict, that there are excuses which are incur
ring the Just censures Of the churches. We
saw in q Western journal the other day that at
a camp-meeting recently held near West Ba!ti-
more, Montgomery County, Ohio, Bishop Rus
eel forbade any one with hoops on to partake Of
Tho sacrament, affirming that they would not be
welcome TO the table Of the Lord. And we re-
member two or three years ago that Western
Conference, very likely this very one, passed
resolutions that "the wearing Of hoops by ie-
8 males is inconsistent with a truly Christian
a. character and is by some considered rs indie
" cent and that therefore we, as Quarterly
" Conference, disapproye Of the wearing of hoops
g BY cur female members" We are concerned
to think that this pastoral and fraternal warning
cannot have been duly needed by the sisters Of
the communion, and that therefore they have
been cut off from the consultations Of religion and
delivered over to be buffeted by Bishop Russell
While we admire the intrepidity Of this new
Hldebrand or st. Dominic that has thus dared
to illuminate the tbunders Of the church at
these growing enormities, we cannot venture to
encourage him to hope for immediate success in
us crusade against crinOline. The fairer half OF
be race have in all time been more than a
match for their spiritual pastors and masters
when they have undertaken to disarm them Of
any Of Geir equipments for the destruction Of
mankind. 1t is written, indeed, that John Cot
"n, IN 1850, preached with such effect against
Salem, one Sunday morning, that in the
'rpart Of the day there was not shred of
0 " oe seen. But that this was an excep-
'~-. Ease Of Faith triumpbing over Fashion, is
wv " The subsequent legislation Of the Gen.
IN court OF Massachusetts, Bay forbiddiDg, I'M
=" penalty Of forfeiture, the wearing Of " gold
and silver laces, grdles, or hat.bands, EN-.
DfOlaered caps, immOderate great walls, and
H"~ooerste great sleeves" And the lameDta.
.Ons Of the godly diyines of tflat century over
. sas '1ce''ss Of female apparel prove that the
sA'od force Of church and state were unequal
repress them. And we now have
alarming intelligence that more than
'sn's tuns Of crinoline steel ia man