The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-01-12


sermon, the organ or the preacher The skat-
ing season has also brought out some attrac-
tive costumes, .and 1t is expected that the
great balls that will come of within the next
month or two will surpass their predecessors
in brilliancy Of toilets. Whatever the con-
diton Of business may be the ladies seem
resolved to assert their rights on the subject
Of fashion.
Tho Rev. MIR. Smysh's Programme for To.
Day.
We have already noticed the important fact
that the Rev. Black Crook Smyth was to de-
liver sermon to-day, which, Judging from the
programme promises to be very pleasant
medley. The subjects to be treated Of are az
numerous almost as the sands of the sea; the
enlightenment which the public are to draw
method in which the famous Black Crook cler-
ical orator will handle them. People may, per-
paps, be able to judge from the programme what
the sermon will be, or, perhaps, they may not be
able TO form any idea at all about it, because
preachers do not always follow their notes any
more than they follow the precepts which they
enuncate with sledge hammer eloquence from
the pulpit However, here is the programme.
Mr.. Smyth will say that, his health being thor
oughly restored after his recent attack Of
"Black Crook" or dramatic vomito, he again
resumes his place on the clerical stage. Then
will come the
The children Of this world are In their generation
wiser than the children Of lignt:-Luke xvi, s.
New York the wonder OF the world besides many
others reasons why. because IL susains many
papers and periodicals. Number aud character OF its
papers aud periodicals Religious week.-Mrs. Secular
weekiea Daies Times, Tribune WofLd) including the
evenings (Teegrdm) Character OF the editors CT AIRED
from Misrepresentation. Requisites for the successful
editing and managing OF a daily-the NRw YORK HERALD
What are D. Isl Number OF clergym OF ali per-
auasions In the city. How many OF them have settled
% naa rosa as
they doingS How does this work compare with that
,frns Demonsr-meaning and application OF the term
Number Of places of anu ement.
'Tne Dollars representing earnest business men,
"Tho Dickens" as representing popular iiterats
Why are peasure-giving men, men Of business, and
pubic literary characters successful than clergy
men in their respective undertakingsf Many reasons
might be assigned but the chief their knowledge
Of The way 70 reach tie pubc-and that is by adver
ing The time was When the pulpit was the great adver.
Using medium and power for thrones societies books
and now 'the press" 10 the paramount power among
men and nations.
Great need OF reformation among the D. DIS and the
churches, as much srec0nstrucon in the state,
city and theatres.
Lessons to be drawn from sthe press" by the pulpit
Complaints OF the people against the Clergy ana the
churches
The bombshell-a for the clergy to crackthe re-
vOluton in the churches Of all denominations Com
mencing.
cali TO the people to rally and carry the movement
through vigorously and independently.
Probably the finis' will be the most agree
able part of the discourse. It will be seen
that Mr.. Smyth is to devote large portion Of
his sermon to the newspapers and the value Of
advertising, the latter being very moral insti-
tuition, which has come down to us with Chris
tianity. But there are good many classes of
newspapers, secular and religious, to which the
preachers attention should be directed. The
secular papers are, perhaps, the most religious OF
the two-a fact OF which we hope Mr.. Smyth will
make note for the religious press deals most
in cant and purely technical religion, while the
secular press often gives us illustrations of re-
ligion in practical shape, showing both sides
OF human life--the good and bad--and, by
contrast points many moral and adorns innu-
merable tales.
Then there Is the illustrated weekly news
paper, in which we find the same order of
talent that makes "Black Crooks" and
"White Fawns illustrious, and attracts the
attention Of vehement parsons like Mr.. Smyth.
We hope this class Of literature will not be
forgotten for does it not reflect the wicked
spirit Of the age quite as much as the unclad
drama, Of which 1t is pictorial representa-
tive? Saying this we say oil that is requisite
upon that subject In this field the preacher
may revel and pluck flowers to adorn his dis
course from every page.
The clergy, as well as the "demons, the
dollars and the Dickens 1t appears, are going
to come in for their share OF rebuke in the
form Of "a bombshell.D Well, the proverb
that "when rogues fall out honest mon come
by their own" is as true in the pulpit as out
of It, and II Mr.. smyth treats his brethren to a
good, sound, wholesome berating for their
hypocrisy nobody will complain except the
men who are hurt. When Mr.. Smyth jotted
down the note that ." the timo was when the
pulpit was the great advertising medium" he
must have thought that he was philosophizing
. century hence, and certainly must have for
gotten that there was such place as Plymouth
church In existence.
Upon the whole, we take II that II Mr..
Smyth's programme IL faithfully carried out
to-day there will be q futtering in a good
many dovecots.