The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-18

From Our o,cn Correspondent
New YORK. Oct. II, 1870.

If 1 refer occasionally to religious matters it
because / believe the readers of THE TELE-
GRAPH have sufficient intellect to take an iute-
rest, from time to time, in spiritual things The
most inveterate reader or writer of letters often
feels that if spice and piquancy are not played
out they ought TO be, and that few heavy aud
serious paragraphs in regard to something more
important than this unsatisfactory world would
be absolutely relishable. One naturally tires of
a perpetual round of crimes, fashions, follies,
balls theatres. the weather, and the latest arri-
walls, and finds himself longing for the wings of
dove, and succumbing to something like the
feeling that to sit cloud and sing
psalms for little while woull not be alto
gether unbearable. Hence, permit me to
ask your attention to the fact that the Unitarian
Council will meet in council this week in this
city. The organization calls itself "The
i National Conference of Unitarian and other
Christian Churches" 1t represents more than
one hundred congregations, and will hold its
6rst session on Wednesday morning at 10
o'clock at DIR. Hepworths church. Tnere are
certain reasons why it will probably prove a
more interesting religious convention than any
previously beld in this country One of these
reasons is that the UntaTians so little eXclu-
sive themselves that they are shut out from
almost all other Protestant denominations.
Their great and beautiful liberaity brings down
4 upon them the illberality of narrower se1ts-if
i may be implied that Unitaranism is q sect.
Another reason is that Unitariaus are now
divided among themselves, and may be
classed into three divisions. One of these ad-
vocates the adoption and publication of a state
! ment of faith. creed, plainly expressing what
Unitarians believe and what they do not believe
in the way of doctrine. The second of them
mildly opposes this innovation. The third vio-
lently deprecates it, arguing that not only will
it do no good, but even beget positive evil.
Practically these three divisions ought to be
classed as two-that which is in favor of and
that which is against statement Of faith At
| the head of the favorers are the Rev. Mr.. Hep
worth of this city, the Rev. Mr.. Putnam, of
! Brooklyn, and the Rev. Mr.. r. p. Stebbns and
/ the Rev. Mr.. r. II. Sears, of Massachusetts,.
The opposers are the Rev. DR.. Bellows of this
! city, and the Few. Charles Lowe, of Boston.
| do not wish to Disrepresent DR.. Bellows, but
| should conceive, from the very little that l do
know of him, that he is not very anxious to
J make converts He has too much respect
for the liberty which every man
ought to enjoy of thinking for himself, to en-
| deayor to impose his own convictions and
! opinions upon other people The majority of
| the eects which are called orthodox do not ap
\ preciate how unlike promulgator of hetero-
] doxy Mr.. Bellows is He believes it is true, in
! the undiyinity of Jesus Christ and the uneter-
1 nifty of future punishment; but his reverence
4 for the work and character of the Saviour
n whom he acknowledges to be such-is incalcu-
| lably greater than the reverence of many of
! the orthodox for Him is, and his unbelief in
everlasting retributon is founded in the convic-
\ ton that the purpose of all punishment is dis
cpinary, not vindictive. Consequently he be-
lieves that in the future life have their
in hair as as av
have here and as soon as they try to SHINING
the work of repentance will have commenced
and the work of regeneration and restoration to
God will follow.
sunday Concerts.
can readily believe that the Sunday concert,
as it is usually conducted, would not be tolerated
h in decent Philadelphia. The Sunday concert
in New York is mournful burlesque upon all
that is sacred. For instance, last week the
management of the Grand Opera House
I announced that Sunday Concert" and a
"Sacred Festival would be given last night and
that the entire opera-bouffe company would
! appear You can imagine the sanctity of the
I affair when, 10 the best of my memory and
belief not sacred musical composition figured
upon the programme, and all the revealed rell-
\ gion of the evening consisted a revelation OF
\ natural flowers in the forms Of ships and pyra-
mds osteniatiously borne by ushers down the
aisles and placed triumphantly at the feet OF
Silly and Peris AS for Carlo Patti, one OF the
conductors, lie transacted duty which legiti
h mately belongs to those interesting parties
popuarly known as "supes," and always
received with Overwhelming applause. He wa;
kept busy from first to last in carting off the
bouquets, with brief intervals of orchestra con
ductiDg. 0 Sunday concert how mucl
shameful secularityis committed in thy name
One Word About "That English"
A brief explanation about Janauscheks Eng
lish. She will probably be gone away sooner o.
later, and entreat you not to expect English al
absolutely perfect as it is claimed by her mana
gers to be- have heard her quite often enough
to be astonished at its wonderful accuracy, bu
not to be blinded with the belief that it is abso
lutely unassailable For instance, she invariabl,
substitutes the sound of ch (sott) for that of ]
ess for est, and for soft. These are flaws
but after all deductions are made, her achieve
mept remains remarkable and greatly NOR
, prasewor,hy than Fechters in similar way.
Netia's Justification.
The result of an interview of somebody els
with Miss Meta has just been poured into m
sympathetic ear. Perhaps you will do me th
honor of remembering my having mentioned
few days ago that Miss Meta had been expelle
from the Saleswomen's Early Closing Associa
tion for having refused to hand over the fund
in her possession. Miss Netta's statement is
and believe that every word of il is true, fo
she carries conviction in her manner and il
the unobtrusiye industry of her hfe-that tn
funds are now in her possessions that she ha