The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-06-26
Church Services To-Day.

Church Services To-Day.
Should this day be as warm as Yesterday.
and the religious fervor of church-goers rise
with the thermometer, the praying in the
churches will be unusually devout. We doubt,
however, if it will; not that people will bs
less religious than in cooler days, but that
perspiration and piety are antagonistic ele-
ments in modern fashionable religion. Besides
there will be hardly chance given the public
for any very great display of fervor. Quite
number of the tabernacles are closed, their
learned and eloquent pastors having tempo
rarily abandoned the work Of saving souls for
the pleasant occupation of stroliing amid the
architectural, artistic and scenic wonders Of
the Old World, or the agreeable pastime of
catching trout in our native streams. AS for
the church-goers, they are at Long Branch.
Newport, and other summer resorts. Only
the nobodies are in the city, and however for
midable they may be in numbers they make no
noise in the world, and, as consequence,
the world is profoundly ignorant OF their exist
ence.
On the whole, then, we do not expect the
churches to be crowded to-day. Of course in
those which are opened there will be the usual
services, and doubtless the sermons will be as
logical and as convincing as those delivered
on any previous Sunday. Indeed, we expect
they will be, for the clergymen are all aware
by this time that they no longer preach to the
handfuls of individuals comprising their con-
gregations, but that through the HERALD they
preach to the entire people of the United
States, and to some extent to the people of the
whole world. This being the case we have
no fear about the quality of the sermons. We
are only apprehensive lest the heat of the
weather deter many sinners from attendance
upon divine services, and lest lager beer and
soda water in the suburbs prove stronger
attractions than the lessons of the Scriptures.
War Among the worIkinsmen-A Terrible
Rumpus.
IF the Workingmen's Union had met on a
Saturday night the rampant rubbish of its
resolutions and speeches against John China
man would have appeared quite natural, and
would not have been unaccounted for; but to
meet on Friday, and such hot Friday, too,
and propose such terrible things, is enough to
fright the isle from its propriety The work.
ngmen are for once agreed on one point,
which is, that something must be done to stop
the ''monstrous Importation of the uncivilized,
unsocial, and, comparatively, consuming
infidel" This much is clear, then, and quite
proper; for of course it is horrible thing to
be an infide, especially in a country where
people have an absolute freedom to believe
what they like, and where, therefore, it is
| quite inexcusable not to believe at all. If it
| is bad to be an inHdel in country having
| such advantages for great faith, how much
worse it is to be uncivilized in land where
the workingmen give such brilliant examples
Of the benefits of civilization by proposing to
make sausages out Of every creature whose
gibberish they do not understand. 1t is a high
| crime, therefore, to be an infidel-people have
been burned at the stake for it it is still
higher crime to be uncivilzed but the greatest
crime of all Is to be a Comparatively nom
consuming infidel" What can you do with
fellow for whom it is useless to brew the tempt
ing lager-who cares not button whether
beef is two cents pound or forty-who, in
fact, has the thrift that lives on rice and saves
money? He will not continue poor even on
compulsion. He will not tipple nor join your
| trades unions, nor contribute his weekly earn
ings to exalt demagogues, or to support idle
ness on the pretext of strike for wages Not
he. The only thing you can do, then, is to
launch resolutions against him with the Their
mometer at ninety -four, and fancy you are
patriotic when you are only ridiculous. The
workingmen are agreed that the Chinese
laborer must be annihilated they are not
agreed as to how it shall be done. Blssert, a
tailor, who is doubtless fine fellow, proposes
to shoulder the rife." No doubt this is
habit. Blissert probably carried rife SO long
in the war that his indignation naturally takes
that shape He also wants to get at the hair
of the man who brought the Chinese over;
but he will not harm the Chinamens hair,
because, likely, they have so little. Cruise,
another tailor, is bloodthirsty, and would
skill them all off" and Masterson,
who is a cutler, significantly proposes ''to
take care of this business" by secret
council of ten hundred, every man with
mask on his face and pair Of shears under
his jacket. They are dreadful chaps, these
tailors. And Mr.. Young, the head of the
workingmen's organization, hopes that the
''resort to arms" will not be necessary. but
"dares to lead" in case it prove 50. He
would have inquests. What relic Of other
and more ignorant times ia all this balderdash |!
How hackneyed and trite is all this superhu-
GUS indignation When the Irishman first came
to these shores the workingmen made the same
| pother against his cheap labor that they now
make against John Chinaman; an equal indig-
nation fumed itself away against the Germans.
Against all sorts of labor-saving machinery
there was an excitement that quite belittled