Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-05-09
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Foreign Missions and Home Vice.
SAN Francisco, May Z, 1870.
The excursion season has opened
with the advent Of some fifty Eastern
clergymen, who, forgetting the spirit
ual needs of their own flocks, kindly
endure the dangers and fatiguss Of q
long journey, in Pullman palace cars,
in order to enlighten III darkness and
tighten our pockets. The immediate
object Of the visit is to express sympa-
thy for the Fejee Islanders, Malabar
Negroes and Asiatic Coolies, and stir
us up to fresh efforts for their CONVEX
sion. Then, II business will permit.
our clerical friends may be induced to
take q little holiday and have u look at
the natural wonders Of the State. 1t
is safe to say that the work will be rap
idly disposed Of, aud the remaining
three weeks devoted to a restoration Of
their exhausted energies. The first
meeting of this Episcopal Convention
was held on Sunday, and commenced
with the presentation Of the annual
reports. California, it appears, absorbs
the whole time of three fteen-hundred-
dollar missionaries, and Is still in such
q desperate condition of d~epravity as
to require at least two more to do her
Justice. Nevada got along very well
with one at a thousand dollars, until
| this State poured In q flood Of wicked
ness to the White Pine country, and
then the solitary worker found it nee
essary to procure an assistant, whose
labor has resulted in great good. On
Monday we were told not to find fault
with the small, practical result hitherto
achieved, but continue to provide the
monetary motive power, and thus add
to our general happiness.
On Tuesday the same tune was
| played on another string. 1--WE
ought" said the Rev. L. Il. living,
:" to feel q real love for the Chinaman,
and consider it 4 privilege to have him
with us. He had raised his own church
from an originally somniferous condi-
ton by infusing this idea of brother
hood into the congregation. During
the last sixteen years the Society had
expended over 500, 900 on California
| alone, and he hoped we would return
| the liberality by making 1t n present
| of some of the gold and silver bricks
he had heard 50 much Of. What he
| and his associates had done was worth
repaying a hundred fold, and the sooner
we commenced squaring accounts the
better it would be for our bodies in
| this world and souls In the next"
This nonsense, interSpersed with orig
| inal anecdotes of pious babies who sold
their candy to contribute to Chinese
| missions, has been going on all the
week, and is not yet over. Two blocks
from where these gentlemen meet is a
somewhat notorious locality, known
now all over the United States rs the
Barbary Coast. Within its precincts
may be found men and women Of our
own nationality, language and kindred
poor creatures stepped in misfortune,
| misery, disease and vice, our brothers
and our sisters who withstood not the
temptation but entered into evil.
| These reverend gentlemen have no
word Of encouragement, no sentence
Of sympathy, no dollar Of practical as
sistanceJto offer them. Vice present Is
hideouss vice afar of and clothed in a
colored skin to be wept over and de-
plored. 1t would faint the clerical
garb to enter the purlieus Of Pacific
Street. 1t would sully a carefully
guarded responsibility to talk comfort
able, cheering words to NJ open sinner.
| Denunciation for them, dollars for the
heather, rebuke and Indifference for
| the present, tracts, bibles and coin for
those afar Of, and-I wonder if such Is
the Kingdom of Heaven.
Churches md Dollars.
In distant connection with this sub
ject it may be mentioned that the low
est sum for which a working man can
obtain a seat in the Lords house,
OH Post street, known rs st. Johns
| Church, is five hundred dollars. That
is the price fixed by the new Pastor,
DR.. Scott, and if the searcher after
spiritual knowledge desires a front
pew it will cost him from three to
twelve hundred dollars more This is
the gentleman whose piety led him to
pray for the presidents (plural) Of
the United States" during the rebel
lion, and it was generally understood
that his supplications for the II at
Richmond were much o feryent
than for Abraham Lincoln. At any
rate he became so unpopular that it
was necessary to be called to another
field Of labor, and San Francisco saw
him no more for years. A vacancy at
length occurring in the Pastorato Of
his old congregation, many Of the
members wished to reinstate their
| former Shepherd, but q formidable
| rival had appeared in the person of
one Hemphill. This candidate was
young, good looking and eloquent, the
ladies' had a vote In the matter, and
need 1t be said that handsome whis-
kers and q nice smooth voice prevailed
over the Doctors qualifications Of de-
nunciation and Democracy. A large
minority were so dissatisfied with the
selection that they exercised their
party perogativo Of seeding. took unto
themselves q Westinghouse Of their
own and invited Scott to preside over
it. Said he, in his reply, IF you can
guarantee = salary of five thousand
dollars per annum, and pay for the
transportation ofmy family and library
to san Francisco, I shall believe it is
Gods will for me to return" The
money ,ras raised, 4 shining clerical
light restored to California, and last
Sunday witnessed the installation GER
emonies. 1t is not necessary to de-
scribe how a dozen persons took part
IN tho procee1inos while n hupp CrOwQ