The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-10-21
Il YORK LETTER.
The Episcopal General Convention.


New YORK, Oct. IA, 1868.
Editors Journal: e9 s -s.
What Broadway was In its most
palmy days, only more SO is Fifth
Avenue now, especially of a Sunday
afternoon. tits curious how devotional
people become about this O'Clock.
Thousands may be seen upon the
broad sidewalks, either going to
church or making-believe-go; and
there is a varied choice of places
wherein to worship, and of all faiths,
and perhaps Of no faith worth speak
ing of-from the splendid new Taber-
nacle to the stately Universalist
Church-whieh is, perhaps. as we'll
known when spoken of as the general
insurance agency, not forgetting the
towering spire which support an am
bilious rooster, and to which numbers
| of those passing could scarcely direct
your way, unless you asked them for
Shanghai Church, 1t is sorrowful
that. well-meaning people will thus
make game Of their churches.
Of course / went to st Adams on
Sunday morning. Everybody knows
what St. Adams IL. 1t is almost as
notorious as Barnum's Museum used
to be, and | presume visited by many
pretty much as that formerly was-as
a matter of curiosity. b With some
things / was pleased-with others
amused-and with others disguised.
So much has been written on this
service that it IS not desirable that I
should add anything. The sermon
on Unity-was unintentionally IRON
| ical in that such a subject was COM
mended in that parish which has
done its best to SOW discOrd In the
church of which it issuch an exceed
iugly small part.
The Episcopal Churches were all
crowded on Sunday, as many dis
ii guishedLstrange wereih the vari-
Gus pulpits, both morning and even
ing, the service In the evening being
generally of a missionary character,
and filled out with short addresses
rather than with sermons.
The General Convention progresses
slowly. Much important work is
being prepared and IS now under pro-
1gress with the various committees
/ WHO nave IL III CA4ASCs du0 OGlO1O LAC
week is owe it Is probable that some
the Convention. The difficulty of
hearing-of which / spoke in my last
letter-becomes at length insupporta-
Bile. and on Monday the House Of cler-
4 zeal and Law deputies removed itself
to the Church Of the Fransfguration;
that Church rendered celebrated by
the lust admonition administered
to the Rev. Tying, Jr., for his deliber-
ate violation of those laws which he
had solcmnly vowed to obey. After
some discussion upon the advisability
of Nebraska changing; on her W au
thority, the word Convention to
Council" she was admitted. and her
delegates are taking part IN the Con-
vention. Consent has also been given
to the divisions of some of the old
Dioceses, and already four new ones
be further Divisions, as there ought to
be. What Bishop can be expected to
duly administer the affairs OF a Do
cese that has several hundred parish.
es so situated that the Bishon INNS
be on the mover No Bishon. NOT
even the stoutest in the House-and
there are some great men there-can
SO spread himself over a Diocese OF
fifty thousand square miles as to make
f his weight felt in any part thereof.
IF our Dioceses were smaller, and as
, o consequence, more easily manared
! we would not be troubled by eccen.
e trio individuals, thrusting .thei,
I. idiosynoeracies upon the Church
i either from the one side or the other,
Before the meeting of the Conyen,
> ton 1 regretted that talking was no
Q 10 my line. lam now devoutly thank
S ful that l am not tempted to add M,
share to the diluted eloouence tina
daily washes the patience out of tn,
Convention. just one word, Mr.
: President" and there is fifteen min
l. N aEI-.1I