The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-21
EMPORIA NEWS.
Friday, october Al, Is7o.
NOTES BY THE WAY.

we arrived IN NEW OK SeptemDer
23d. Travelled from Amboy by water,
a distance of about thirty miles. The
size of the boat was about 50x300 feet.
New York is the city of our country
the census will show q population of
about 100000. Here the wealth of ma
tions is brought in great ships. 1t is
marvellous to behold the busy multitude
on Broadway. The buildings range
from five to eight stories high. They
are bold and massive in appearance.
The street is about forty-five feet wide,
and SO thronged with all kinds of wheel
ed vehicles that women and children
have to be conducted across by police
men. The pavements are about twelve
feet wide and continually crowded with
a mixed multitude; here specimens of
humanity may be seen from the most
decrepit and scottish to the most dignifi-
ed and noble. On the 25th we went TO
the Plymouth Church to hear Henry
Ward Beecher. We arrived there about
fifteen minutes before the service COM
menccd. We were ordered to stand
back, and not allowed to enter themain
body of the church until all the pew
holders were supposed to be in, then
the strangers were permitted to occupy
the remaining seats. The church was
crowded. The organ is about twenty
Ave feet wide in front, and appears like
. small gothic house. The choir was
large, and the Congregation Joined in
singing. The opening prayer was full
of thought and grand in diction. The
text was in Heb. xii, 2. The topic was,
Looking unto Jesus" 1 understood
Beecher to define sin to be ga want of
knowledge and the absence of the pow
er of volition." He repudiated univer-
sal depravity, and preferred universal
infancy" and the looking unto Jesus as
our "moder' in the struggle for man
hood. We left the place adoring the
man. On Monday we visited the Meth
odist book room, situated on the corner
of Eleventh st. and Broadway. The
building is of iron, 76x222 feet, and six
stories high. In connection with the
mission room there is a museum con-
tanning a variety of heather gods, with
articles of clothing, implements of war
and other relics from nations who have
not the Bible. On Tuesday we visited
Central Park. The lay of the land is
broken and sometimes abrupt, faint
emblem of the romantic. 1t contains
about 1000 acres, set with trees, ever
greens and shrubbery; laid off with
walks, carriage drives and lakes. The
plan of the park was proposed by Mrs.
Parish. In it is a museum with live
animals from South America, Africa
and many other ports. Prospect Park,
of Brooklyn, is now being laid out and
beautifed. 1t contains about 700 acres.
1t has long carriage drives wide enough
for about six carriages to go abreast.
Here the carriage wheels roll in splen-
dor. We were rendered the use of a
two-horse carriage for an afternoon, by
Mr.. w. Wright, in which we rode
through the Park and down to Coney
Island, distance of about five miles,
where we bathed our feet in the swell
ings of old Atlantic, and thought of the
missionaries who were out on its rest
less bosom.
On the ferry boat between New York
and Brooklyn was agreeably surpris-
ed to meet with an old friend and
brother, Rev. j. b. Taylor, a former cit
izen of Lyon county. He is now en-
gagged in the wholesale coal business in
New York. He assured me with many
words that the doctrine that he preach
ed while in Kansas was true (namely,
that of a limited atonement.)
A day in Greenwood Cemetery is too
short time to pass over it. 1t is the
great city of the dead. The surface is
what we would call very blufry. Up
the slopes and on the heights are vaults
and pyramids of great variety. Clean
ing among the trees may be seen the
white polished marble, forty feet high,
some of which were erected at cost of
about 100000. About twenty-five OF
the foreign delegates to the Evangelical
Alliance, who had left their homes be-
fore the announcement was made re-
calling the meeting, arrived in New
York. A meeting was called on Friday
evening, in which they were cordially
greeted; and on Sabbath evening an
enthusiastic meeting was held in rela-
ton to the unity of the Church. We
spent two Sabbaths in Brooklyn, and
attended two Methodist churches. The
ministers in their pulpit labors were
able, earnest and practical, In the pray
er meeting the membership gathered
about the altar; the singing was lively,
the prayers were earnest and devotion
al. One penitent was at the altar for
prayers. Many persons left the place
feeling their need of Christ. The Sab
bath School was large, and the work
was thorough. Brooklyn is q city OF
about 100000 inhabitants. 1t is wick
ed city. 1 am now fully satisfied that
II is only question of time when New
York and Brooklyn will be destroyed.
j. MCANULTY.