The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-13
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From Oar o,cn Correspondent
NEW York Sept. 10, 1870.
The Relations season.


the religious season, which, just as much as the
amusement season, has Its regularly recognized
date for ending and commencing Many
A churches which had been closed all summer,
were thr' wn open, and the bonnet was an
institution in the pews while the new heart
preached from the pulpit. The necessity for
pr aching in season and out of season is not re-
cognized by us. We preach twice on Sundays
and give a lecture over during the week, so long
as the weather enables us to draw" When
ev-r tn congregations begin to fall off and the
falling off is traceable to the heat of the weather.
r the ason Is voted over and the church doors
begin to close. 1t Is not so very difficult to de-
termine what the reason of this is. | see no
reason or cause why ministers have not as much
right as actors have to rest, but l see very
plain reason why the ministers "draw" so
very poorly during the warm weather It is be-
cause their platitudinaran sermons so abound
i The ements of sleep. In the great ma
jority OF cases their weak homilies are a sort OF
moral chioral-hydrate which send soul and body
alike iuto unrefreshing slumbers. few
pre- ache RS. such as Hepworth, Chaplin, Bellows
and Heury Ward Beecher, "draw" we'll beca use
they get off original things aud make their
hearers think. This is especially the case with
that sw, religious genius, Mr.. Bellows, the
personaness of whose sermons often resemble
that of private and confidential exhortation
In fact. most of the live preachers of the day
have given up preaching doctrine, and preach
truths hat enter into the daily straning after a
| Christ-lkc life. 1t would be impossible to tell
from their dscourses, only, what their doctrnal
beliefs were beyond that of Gods being inf
nitely wise just, powerful, holy and loving,
and Of m ms duty consisting in loving God with
all is mind, conscience, heart and soul, and
his n.ighbor as himself.
Pleasant for the Poor.
1t would be difficult, perhaps, to calculate
with correctness the quality and quantity Of the
benefs which has been conferred upon the
poorer classes of New York by the improvements
which have been made in the city parks, by the
music which is every evening performed in one
of hem, and by the pains which have been
taken to redeem such waste places as the City Hall
"Park' and the Battery recently were. The City
Hall 'Park" was called so by figure of speech.
1t was scarcely more of q park than those lum-
Der y,rds were which some years ago used to
be so lavishly distributed along Broad street in
Philadelphia The intervals appropriated to
gra s-plats had entirely lost their characteristic
greenness: its fountain, situated in the centre
of the space where the new post office is now
building, was never turned on, and the ruin
bee me the favorite rendezvous for boot
blacks AID news-boys. The ratings which
bounded he park were fringed with booths,
WuClc lTuit, lCc CIcalu, penny -SOuBS, ana
cigars were dispensed, and the entire area had
most demoralized, woe-begone, and unmetro-
politan appearance The Park Commissioners
have done everything to redeem this fororn
spot The southern extremity has of course,
been cut off to accommodate the new Post
Office, but the northern half has been laid out
iuto neat beds, provided with new walks and
railngs, aud edged with a wide new sidewalk
which will constitute one of the most commo-
dicus p;,vements in the city. The Battery is
also experiencing picturesque change for the
bett r, and in another year will be quite
Charm ~ little inclosure of green and shade.
The Census.
Hitherto, the returns of the present census
have had tendency to prove that our popula-
tion is not near so large as we thought it was
and as we desired to have. Can we have been
mistaken? Or, stranger STILL can our popula-
tion have failed to increase? For years past we
have been constantly extending our limits, and
are vastly richer now in suburbs than we ever
were before. Neither can it be denied that con-
slant accessions have been made to our popula-
ton from almost every other country. At an
ultimate and satisfactory cause of this thus
ness" therefore, it seems almost impossible to
arrive, except on the theory that the apparent
smallness of our population is the result of a
political dodge, the object of which is to try to
prove that at our city elections more votes than
there are voters are polled in some of the wards.
If such ,dge really has been tried, there is at
last chance that it will be exposed, since there
are so many well-known cases in which no
census returns have been taken for the simple
reason that the deputy marshals failed to call
upon the parties. 1t is worth while observing,
too that tue census was taken at time when
between one and two hundred thousand people
must have been out of town. 1t Is not pleasant,
you see, for us to have been bolstering our
selves up with the idea that our population
amounted to at least million, and then to be
suddenly let down to figure which is not ma
terially larger than that of Philadelphia
Amusements
The Swedes in New York intend to offer to
Madlle. Nilsson, soon after her arrival in this
city, the compliment of q torchlight procession.
The arrival is expected to take place tomorrow,
and the procession will defile past the residence
fof Dr. Duremus, a somewhat shabby, tumble
down ookisg house, at the Intersection OF
Eighteenth street and Fourth avenue. GrafullaS
Seventh Regiment Band will perform the music,
which will Of course comprise q selection of
Scandinavian airs. Nilssons portraits no doubt
figure quite as extensively in the music-store
windows of Chestnut street as they do in those
of Broadway. You will, no doubt, have re-
mn ked that the general expression of the face
Is rather cod, and seems to lack that combina'
ton oi genial qualities which, for lack of q
etter cl.,sidcation, we usually call soul" The
features are beautiful, stately, and self-pos-
sessed. You are ready to admire in them the
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