Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-11-26
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NEw5YoRK, Nov. 23, 1868.

J ~ 3aa NEW91Okk,i NOV. 20, looo.
The third and last session of the Ma
tional Christian Convention was held
ON Thursday, and was remarkable for
the perfect good feeling which prevailed
throughout the proceedings, and for the
valuable suggestions threwn out by the
various speakers. Henry Ward Beech
er delivered one of his extemporaneous
addresses, full of hints which, if, acted
upon nponr BY the many influential, people.
who heard him, cannot fail to produce
ere longthe very best fruit in the church,
the school room and the family. DIR.
McCosh, the new President of Prince
ton College, one OF. the finest looking
and most truly loveable, as well as one
of thsmos intelligent men in the world,
followed, Mr.. Beecher, and in short
address seconded the proposals, of his
American 1co.worker with simple earn
estness that won him hosts of friends.
Hetook his audience by surprise when he
announced that during the autumn of
1869 an Acamenical Council of all Chris
Trans will be held in this city. with the
object Of producing harmony and good
feeling among all denominations. This
council is not to be confined to the
clergy, although some of the greatest
clerical names in GhristandoT are inclu.
ded in. the list of guests. Among others,
Lord Shabtesbury has promised to come.
and numerous authors, journalists, and
scientists from various parts Of the civ.
ilized world have been, invited and
reiconfdentIy expected to be present
and take part in the discussion which
will be held on the great topics now ..ag-
itating the religious world. Apropos to
this subject let me crafty you with the
information that the Unitarians and
Episcopalians of New York are making
strong efforts, to furnish the inhab-
itants of Gotham with free preaching.
The move is made on moral grounds.
the appeal to the public is based on the
proposition, that. as there are plenty of
fins churches for the very rich, ,and plen-
ty of preachers for the very poor-even
the denizens of Water street, where the
Wicked Man lives" lave an average
of two chaplains apiece-and as the
middle classes cannot afford to go to
fashionable churches, and are too proud
to 90 to John Aliens den Oh, to Kit
Burns ratrtrap, it behooved the right
minded to provide church facilities for
audiences somewhat less refined than the
elite, and more select than those who
have hitherto been the exclusive objects
of charity. 1t is therefore proposed to
build large number. of large public
halls wherein good preachers may min
lister eratuitously to those who desire to
be bettered by religious Instructions.
oiThe papers are no longer filled with
the glittering generalities and pattering
platitudes which are essential elements
during political campaign, but con-
tain, instead, columns of matter inter-
esting to an classes Of readtrs; much of
tits tiashy, to be sure, but then much is
very good, and repays careful perusal,
.tfh. project of tunnelingz the East
river has not been abandoned, as has
been reported. A committee consisting
of VIM. A..Smith, of. Brooklyn. and
,Joel A. Pitbian, of New York, MEM
hers of the Iron Tubular Tunnel Com
pany, has been appointed to present the
claims of the corporators to the public,
and lis to be hoped that before many
more winters pass we shall have reached
the glorious consummation Of having an
easy and safe mode of getting to the
city of Churches without being obliged
to depend upon the Union Ferry Com
pany. The bridge project is still in
abeyance, owing to the secret opposition
of this same Company, which controls
the bridge stock; and unless the people
of the two cities insist upon the carry
ing out of the provisions of the char
ter much doubt whether We shall eve,
have bridge.
Now is the time for new plays, new
lectures, new journals and new books
Tibe last stage sensation is"After Dark,
one of Dion Boucicault's exaggerations
T. !. full Of horrors. 1t fairly bristles
n;tb - r them. A woman leaps from bridge
into the Thames and has a narrow es'
cane from death by drowning. A man
i po;soned to within an inch of his life
a. and Is afterwards laid upon the track of
q ,ubterranean railway to be run ove'
and crushed by the fast approaching
train "A dozen other people are placed
in equally embarrassing positions bu,
of course only the wicked have the thew vita