The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1865-10-05

bishop, whose prayers She rejects, and
who are obliged, for propriety's sake, to
public, and VOW that her Majesty quit
ted this life Gin heavenly frame Of
mind" What a life!-to what enels de-
voted! What vanity of Vanities! It
is theme for another pulpit than the
lecturers. For a pulpit?-I think the
part which pulpits play in the death Of
kings is the most CHASTITY of all the GER
emonial: the lying euogies, the blink
ing of disagreeable truths, the sickening
batteries, the simulated grief, the false
hoods and sycophancies all uttered in
the name of Heaven in our State church.
es: these monstrous threnodies have
been sung from time immemorial over
kings and queens, good, bad, wicked,
licentious. The Stateparson must bring
out his commonplaces; his apparatus Of
rhetorical blacll-hangings. Dead king
or live king, the clergyman must hatter
him-anaounce his piety While living,
and when dead, perform the obseql,ies
of "our most religious and gracious
king"
| read that Lady Yarmouth my most
religious and gracious kings favoritel
sold a bishopric to 3 clergyman for
$4,000. (She betted him $4,000 that he
would not be made a bishop, and he lost,
and paid herr Was he the only prelate
of his time led up by such hands to eonse-
Grafton? AS | peep into George Ills
st. James's | see crowds of cassocks rust
ling up the back-stairs Of the ladies OF
the Court; stealthy clergy slipping pur-
ses into their laps; that goddess Old King
yaWning under his canopy in his Chapel
no ,I,,i, /, RI
coursing. Discoursing about What?-
about Righteousness and .judgment?-
While the chaplain is preaching the king
is chattering in German almost as loud
as the preacher; so loud that the clergy
man-it may be one DIR. Young, he who
wrote Might Thoughts and diSeoursed
on the splendors OF the stars, the g'ories
OF heaven, and utter vanities OF this
world-aetuaily burst out crying in his
pulpit because the defender Of the faith
and dispenser OF bishoprics would not
listen to him! No wonder that the cler-
gy were corrupt and indifferent amidst
this Indifference and corruption. No
wonder that sl<eptics multiplied and
morals degenerated, so far as they de-
pended Oh the influence of such a king.
No wonder that Whitfield cried out in
the wilderness that Wesley quilted the
insulted temple to pray ON the hillside.
| look with reverence on those men at
that time. Which is the subiimer spec
tacle--the good John Wesley, surround
ed by his congregation Of miners at the
pits mouth, or the queens chaplains
mumbling through their morning office
in their ante-room, under the picture Of
the great Venus, with the door opened
into the adjoining chamber, where the
queen is dressing, talking scandal to
Lord Hervey, or uttering sneers at Lady
Suffolk, who is kneeling with the basin
at her mistress's side? say am scar
ed as | look around at this society-at
this king, at these courtiers, at these pol
iticians, at these bishOps-at this fiaunt-
ing vice and levity. Whereabouts in
this Court is the honest man? Where
is the pure person one may like? The
air STILES one with its sic>ly perfumes.
There are some old-worid follies and
some absurd ceremonials about our
Court of the present day, which | laugh
at, but as an Englishman, contrasting it
with the past, shall | not acknowledge
the change of to-day? AS the mistress
of st. James passes me now I salute the
sovereign. wise, moderate, exemplary
of life; the good mother; hegood wife
the accomplished lady; the enlightened
friend of art; the tender ympathizer in
her peoples glories and sorrows.
OF all the Court of George and Caro-
line / find no one but Lady Suffolk with
whom it seems pleasant and kindly to
hold converse. Even the misogynist
Croker, who edited her letters, loves her,
and has that regard for her with which
her sweet graciousness seems to have in
spired almost all men and some women
who came near her. have noted many
little traits which goto prove the charms
of her character lit isnot merely because
she is charming, but because she is char
acteristic, that | allude to her). She
writes delightfully."- sober letters. Adj
dressing Mr.. Gay at Tunbridge (he was,
you know, a poet, pennyless and in dis
grace,) she says: '"Hhe place you are in
has strangely filed your head with ply
sicians and cures; but, take my word
for it, many fine lady has gone there
to drink the waters without being sick;
and many q man has complained OF the
loss of his heart who had If in his own