The New York herald., 1869-01-20
Fisk the Greas-More Worlds to Conquer.

Fisk the Great-More Worlds TO Conquer.
Alexander the Great wept for more worlds
to conquer. So Fisk the Great, having added
to his domain as railway king the fantastic,
airy realm Of opera 6oute, and, finding the
sceptre of the latter infinitely less heavy than
that with which he sways the destinies of the
former, is ambitious Of extending his conquests.
ssMore worlds to conquer is his motto.
Boldly rushing in where angels might fear to
tread. he aspires to nothing less than the en-
pire of that vast complicated, vague and misty
sphere popularity known as 'the religious
world" Aware of the immense aggregate oe
the sums contributed by the faithful Of every
name towards the support Of all sections of Tue
church universal he shrewdly enough pfesumss
that it win pay to control the sinews Of war
against the world, the flesh and the devil.
This first step in this new direction seemed
but only seemed--to be a false one. Barring
out Sunday school, and provoking street
mass meeting of Sunday school scholars and
teachers, who vociferously applauded a
series of red-hot resolutions against his
alleged outrage of their rights to
three years lease Of hall memorable
for solemn religious gatherings as well as
for Batemans jolly birthday dinner, at frst
sight looked highly impolitic, to say the
least All the elements of opposition to the
theatre in general and to the gpsra IoHfs I2
particular, it might be supposso would thus be
stirred = high pitOb 81 excitement But the
letter Of Mr.. Fisk's lawyer, who processes the
deepest interest in Sunday schools and exults
in having himself been Sunday school
teacher, gives an entirely different aspect to
the CASE The compliments bestowed by this
pious lawyer upon Mr.. Pike for the liberal
terms on which, although an Israelite, he had
leased the hall to the apparently somewhat
Jesuitical Mr.. Perry, warrant us in the char
table inference that only the highest Christian
motives could have impelled Mr. Fisk to dis
perse the Morning Star Sunday School
May 1t not be surmised that Mr.. Fisk, who,
for aught we know, may have formerly been
Sunday school teacher in Vermont or in Massa,
chusetts, has decided to run the Morning Star
Sunday School and all other Sunday schools
himself? May we not conjecture also that this
new enterprise is but preliminary to still
grander scheme Of running all the churches ig
this metropolis and throughout the United
States? The name of another financial magl
nate, Daniel Drew-the very initials Of which
Cd. d. have an ecclesiastical Significance
are already inscribed in granite letters upon
the front of the sDahiel Drew Methodist Epis-
copal Church" But when the name Of James
Fisk, Jr., shall be inscribed on the front Of
every other church edifice, may we not hope
that, under the Episcopal supervision of the
railway and opera king, innumerablc ecclesi-
astical abuses will be abated? Country par
sons will no longer have to rely upon ''dona7
tion parties" for subsistence Their salariea
will approximate more fairly than at present
to the princely incomes of fashionable city
preachers The malicious old proverb about
the proclivity of ministers sons" and 'deacons,
daughters" to 60 astray in consequence of the
limited means of their parents to start them
Alright in life will become obsolete and, to add
no other prospective advantage from the access
sion Of Mr.. Fisk to the pontiicate of the Ameri-
can churches, surely we may expect that the
impious custom of selling pews at auction and
crowding the Lords temple with money
Changers custom which even Brother
Beecher must admit would be more honest in
utterly done away with. So mote il be-