The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-05
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few days ago / mentioned that church for
strangers had been established In New York.
and now have to state few additional part-
culars that are not uninterestlne. The pastor
of the Church for Strangers is the Rev. DR..
Drew, who arrived ia this city nearly five years
ago, and engaged here in literary pursuits.
Some one persuaded him to try his hand at
preaching. So he opened the small chapel of
the New York University which fronts on Wash
ington Square. His first congregation there
numbered ten persons, not including his own
family. After that his congregation appears to
have regularly increased, according to the laws
of geometrical progression. Just when his
little church promised to begin to be
prosperous, he received 'call" to California.
His people, however, had become so fond of
him, as is the way with people who have a
pastor whom they like, that they promised him
that if he would stay they would build him
church. So he stayed, and Dr. Hawks, who
died just about that time, gave "clincher" to
DR.. Drew's conviction of duty by making o
very impressive death bed exhortatiou to him.
That eXhortation consisted of the words, twice
repeated, or pronounced thrice in all, "Preach
the gospel" after having said which the good
old Doctor died Mr.. Drew considered that his
vocation in life had been sufi ciently indicated
by this death-bed Speech and therefore devoted
years ego last May he and his little congre-
cation moved into the large chapel of the
University, and since then the progress of the
Church of the Strangers has been very steady.
1t is called the Church of the Strangers because
it en- braces representatives of every nativity
and almost every religion. Its piety is cosmo-
politan, if l may be allowed such an expression,
and Cornelius Vanderbilt is responsible for the
present prosperity of the church Some time
ago he handed Mr.. Drew check for $50 coo,
with which the property was purchased. One
fourth of the pews are to be set aside. forever
for the use of strangers, so that the stranger to
New York can no longer make with justice the
excuse that his spiritual interests are not cared
for here. The church is situated almost within
the very heart of the city, in University place,
just below Eighth street, near to quarter where
hotels and boarding houses do abound and
churches do not.
Mrs. Bishop and her Counsel.
Mrs. Bishop, the plaintiff in the well-known
Bishop divorce case, yesterday created sensa-
ton in the Special Term of the Superior Court
where her case has been in hearing. The sensa-
tion was caused by her Reputation of the Count
Joannes, who had hitherto been her counsel
and who, as all the world knows, is regarded by
the legal profession as huge joke. Soon after
the opening of the court, the Count arose to
alimony which Judge Jones had ordered TO be
paid. After referring to Mrs. Bishops need of
the money, George made the remarkable state
ment that his client was already on the verge of
insanity, and that if she were to lose the case
she would certainly become quite insane. This
was the signal for Mrs. Bishop, whose feelings,
as respectable and intelligent woman, ap-
peared to have been outraged for some
time past, to rise excitedly, to declare
that the ''Count" had made representations
that we're injurious to her character, aud to pro-
test that, sooner than allow the case to continue
in his hands, she would consent to lose it. In
vain the 'Count" rose with pacifcation written
on his countenance, and with words of honey
apparently ready to drop from his tongue. Mrs.
Bishop had evidently suffered too long and too
keenly to be easily mollifed. She reiterated her
statements with emphasis. The result was that
the "Count" was snubbed-abs olutely and ire
vocably sunderland that the case was post
poned until next Friday, in order to allow Mrs.
Bishop time to procure other counsel.
,'Women May Work and Men May Weep,o Etc.
From present appearances, perhaps instead
of Charles Kingsley's refrain,
"For men must work, ana women must weep,
Though the harbor bar be moaning"
we might with more truth say
'For women may work, and men may weep
While the buttonholes go unmended."
ApropoS, the Womans Club has just had
another meeting at Delmonco's. After lunch
the members proceeded to business The Trea-
surer reported that all the ladies had promptly
paid their dues and fees, and that the Associa-
tion's finances were flourishing. When the topic
for the day up for discussion, and that topic
was 'What is the discipline that women most
need?" / don't know whether they discovered
the answer, but they apparently proceed upon
the assumption that the discipline which hus-
bands most need is to see as little of their wives
as possible. Perhaps, after all, that discipline
is merciful, and conveys to the husbands as
little of the idea of punishment as can possibly
be conveyed If any of my readers have ever
lived in house of which the feminine head was
woman belonging to a Club, he will be quite
pardonable for entertaining an unconquerable
prejudice against women's associations. OF all
unhappy homes and husbands the homes and
husbands of womans rights women are the an
happiest
An Infant Genius.
little "kid," not more than six years of age,
named Little Ollie Goldsmith C''Ollie" being
short for Oliver, has been attracting a good
deal of interest in 'priyate circles'-the circles
widening sufficiently to admit of critics, just
large enough in number to give publicity to the
prodigy through the columns of their respective
newspapers. The child has marvellously quick
and correct memory, and can recite the princi-
pal scenes Uerbatim from several celebrated
plays, accompanying the imitation with not
altogether inappropriate emphasis and gesticu.
lation. He is something much more than an
infantile autOmatOn. and NAV DOgsihlv rinen