The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-06-29

an effect highly pleasing and reverential
The cost was $4,000, It is certainly
model of beauty and church elegance.
We took our seat quite early, that we
might indulge curious eye, and feast
upon IFS charms. AS we sat and medita-
ted upon this specimen of true church ar
chitecture, so elegant and beautlful-the
lines Of the poet, written in a Fashionable
Church, stirred our memory.
| The air Is faint, yet still the crowds pass in;
With stir of silks and under.fiow of talk
| That falls from lips OF ladies as they walk
| Ere yet the dainty service doth begin.
| All mel the very organs glorious din
| Is tuned to plant trimness in its place
| And over all, n sweet melodious grace
Floats with the incense-stream good souls TO
win.
| o God that spak'st of old from Slnais brow,
| And thou that laid'st the tempest with word
| Is this thy worship? Come amongst us now
| with all thy thunders, If thou wouldst be
| heard.
SO tyranonus is this weight of pageantry.
| Almost we cry "give back Gethsemane."
But as the preacher became zealously
engaged in hls subject, we discovered that
he had strong hatred of cant, of empty
pomp and Journalism, that he valiantly
defended the cause of the poor, the rights
of humanity, and the essentials of a true
spiritual worship. He would, evidently,
rather worship with the cold salts" that
carry forward the commerce of the rivers
and lakes, in the hull of schooner, than
with the pompous Journalist, under the
most Respondent stained windows in the
highest high church on Fifth Avenue.
In the Glow sad music of humanity"
there is something that touches, and IN.
spires, and moves the high realms of spir-
itual forces, and TO him, the devout, ear
nest, humble preacher, praying and doing,
trusting and loving, is a grander temple
of God, than the Cathedral of Milan, with
ita wondrous Alp.like peaks of snowy ar
chitecture, sentinelled with sculptured
saints
The religious element in East Saginaw,
as seen in its churches and schools, declare
Enthusiastically, that it hath laid its foun.
dation on the rock, and it shall stand, and
be city of SUCCESS.
One incident, painfully ludicrous, shall
end this chapter.
1t is Of a man who saw saw, saw ;
he was curious German, and called a,
Mr., - saw MILL to gaze in wonderment
at the various and complicated machn-
cry. Among other things that he saw,
was small circular saw, saving faster
than anything he ever saw, saw before
Its rapid motion fascinated him; he
reached out his right index finger towards
its i'll defined periphery (for the circumfer
ence of saw, in swift motion, looks to be
al the base of the teeth, md not at their
points, when,to his surprise, the end of hi,
fiuger disappeared in an instant, and roll.
ed away to the other side of the saw.
| The man tied up the stump in his hand.
kerchief. Soon Mr.. Andrews noticed
him, and came to him and inquired what
was the matter. The sorry victim, Of
misplaced confidence, replied -
"Mishter Andrews, l never comes tc
see your mills peiore. seed dis ting 90.
ing round SO fast. | takes mein vinge
to him. like dis, and-mein Gott!"
In explaining his first mishap, the Ger
man touched the saw with his left for,
finger, and that flew off.
Turning to Andrews, in almost breath
r less astonishment, the man exclaimed -
+ "Mishter Andrews, never comes to Sc,
your Nails pefore; see him ne.e
comes to see him again !" And wrapping
that finger into his handkerchief, he star
ted for a doctors office-a wiser, though no
sounder man. s.B.R.
June, 18th, 1869.