Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-12-16

QOA AAAOW WA0tu04 SAO 1AA00 wan ~
earnest lunatic or an intelligent hsathsn
or mercilsss and impudsnt joker. who
related the story that little boys are em-
ployed in Chicago to cry on the corners Of
the streets, "Haue a .dioorce, SIR" am
quite sure he must have been one Of the
aforementioned. Perhaps he might have
been jealous advocate Of the in
alienable right Of st. Louis to be the
Queen City of the West (or. Of tho Interior,
AZ some people prefer to call this part Of
the globe.) The moral character Of Chi
cago has been wofully mirepresentsd.
God knows that it Il bad enough. Bat
that it takes the laurels OF immorality,
impurity, corruption. gambling, lioens
tiousness from of the brow of New Yoek,
is false. Chicago IL one Of the few re-
publican cities. No longer ago than last
fall her people put their veto on the ring
and demanded that city Offices should be
shoveled Of their filth. Who over heard
of such thing in New York ? There the
people are but perfect source Of putrid-
ity. To appeal to them for correction
of city politics would be like appealing to
the ocean to correct the sadness Of Boston
hartor.
As to the matter of divorce, am yet to
become aware that it is easier to procure
divorce here than in puritanic old Con-
necticut, whose noblest son has lately ut
tered against the pernicious and growing
laxity in this respect. think statistics
will show favorably for Chicago.
So much in Chioago's defense. But let
her institutions speak for Themselves.
ask all of your readers to spend a Sab
bath with me, and if afterward they per-
sist in thinking that Chicago is q place
irrecoverably wicked I shall be left to one
of two conclusions either they had bad
company and were disgasted with him
who showed them around" or else they
themselves are gloriously supersitious
and prefer old falsehoods to new truths.
Look, first, at our churches. The first
thing, nearly, that l noticed when the
cars "disgorged" me hero was snug lit
tie Old School Presbyterian church squat
ted down amid high, large, irowning
mercantile houses For all the world II
looked as though dove had wandered
into flock of fowls
hope it has the effect Of dove-tailing
religion to business and OF making them
one in essence different only in the man.
uer Of operating.
Wabash avenue is lined with churches
Of all denominations. l believe that once
it put in the claim Of being named "Churc1
avenue but at last concluded, with
Beecher, that names should not be used
like pegs to hang up old puritanie opin
ions on. Washington street, too, is DO
coming celebrated for the number o.
churches, and as the city trespsseee on Ii
own established bounds and friDges ou
toward the west, churches generally oh
trude. 1 notice Wash Feet Baptis
church and, by the way, (which ID anoths'
argument in favor Of Americas practical
ity) it is in an exceedingly muddy part o
the city where, of course, the fest Of tn
community will need washing the often
est. have not inquired whether or no
the female oonmunicants apply the hal
of their heads as towels at "ttc erercsses.
All these chusshes are 70 evenly dia
tributed over the city, however. that ther
Is hardly block without its church Q
churches On tho Sabbath their door
agree With the description which Beoh
srsteth gives of the gates of heaven.
"Bock soiN nsslsdioas sOn,sd they sefN
Heso." so doing I'll are invited to the Sssa
spread within. Let NJ sccept tho invita
ton to those feasts which are most orths
doxically spread.
But, perhaps, before accepting any II
vitstion We had better make up on
minds what kind Of religious food on
palatss pssfar. It win nale dihsrsne
whsthss Ne prefer peDoG and salt =
all kinds Of spices. served with sprinl
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