The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-15

vertised and then criticized. It is only fair,
il services and sermons are advertised, that
they should be reported. The New York
Herald is more logical than the Pal Mall
GdsCtto and the Globe.
The difficulty, and by a little practice il
may be got over, is in getting penny-a-liners
to 20 TO church--or rather, when they have
got to church, in getting Journalists who
are sufficiently acute not to display their en-
tire ignorance of a novel subject just as the
typical funkey of the textbook hoped that it
would be considered in his wages il he was to
he required to attend family prayers, so we
trust that the penny line has been raised to
twopence in the case of the gentlemen of the
press who are required by the New York
HerGtd to 90 to church on Sunday and
afterwards write out their experiences of this
unusual exercise. At present we should say,
judging from the reports in the New York
Herald of February %, that the reporters
have not yet quite settled to their work.
Theological and archaeological technology
hardly comes, like reading and writing, by
nature; and we remember some cases in this
field of disquistion among ourselves where
table editors" and accurate sub-editorS have
committed their journals to queer blum
ders in unfamiliar matters. Years ago
the Times inserted n report, communi-
Gated by some expert, of some choice
ecclesiastical celebration in which the writer
"
as elevated on 'foot-pace," the recognized
phrase for a step. This was printed in the
Times as 'foot-pan." The New York Herald
has not perhaps committed 80 good joke as
this, but its Religious Summary shows here
and there the lucubrations of tyros in church.
going. 1t used to be said of a de-
ceased bishop, who had acquired a
knack Of looking very unctuous
and religious In church, that he
IL, -,
it were decided novelty which he had met
with for the first time. The journalist who
does Grace Church for the Herald may be
pardoned for his gushing and enthusiastic
language, seeing that 'the strikingly impress
sive effect" of which he saw and heard, was
decidedly the same sort of impression which
is made upon us by our first pantomime.
The picture is drawn by novice in religious,
but an expert in theatrical, effects:-
The softened holy light streaming through the
multcolored panes and devices in glass, the wavy
pearls OF music, the deep and stately tones OF the
Gothic roof, resting on high-reacnng and moulded
pillars, the massive dark-stained and richly-fur-
nished pews, the elegance OF toilet and beauty Of
feature among the many fair worshippers, the air
OF real and calm and quiet contemplation, had alto
| gether strikngly impressive effect.
| That is to say, the combination of the Beauty
of Holiness and the Holiness of Beauty had
! such an effect upon the susceptible reporter
that we are not altogether surprised at his
! conclusion:-
aisle, midway betw cen the chancel and the entrance
listening to the music the ripple OF responses from
readers voice, it difcult to feel otherwise than
an impulse of sympathy with this order OF Christian
| worship.
Grace Church, we need hardly say, is a
very orthodox Episcopalian church; but not
an extreme one. And yet, if we may trust
the reporter, some things are done there
which would make even Mr.. Purchas stare
and gasp. We are informed that "after the
splendid voice of Rev. MIR. Egbert had ceased
to intone the lessons of the day, the tall form
of the Rev. DR.. Potter rose in the pulpit.
If in the use of New York the sermon follows
the second lesson, and nothing follows the
sermon, for such we are explicitly told was
the case on this occasion, the New York Epis-
copalians can hardly complain of the length
of their Sunday devotions.
We felt curious to know how the more ad
vanced school manages matters across the
Atlantic; but we regret to say that the re-
porter ON ''St. Adams Ritualistic Church,
evidently knowing nothing about the matter,
skulks from his duty in language safe, but
provokingly vague. We are only Informed
that
The officiating clergymen are attired in ecclesiast
cal vestments, and are surrounded in their exercises
celebrant soemnly recites the prescribed passages
the members of the congregation alternately bow
and cross themselves in the responses, while add
onal tapers are lighted as the worship progresses.
The impression made upon the gentlemen
of the press by the Episcopalian churches
seems to have been that of an assembly o
lotus-eaters, calm and dreamy Castle of In
dolence, and a revival, if anything, Of
the Dutch governors of New York. The sec
tarians are certainly more lively. At Ply
mouth Church, so the summary informs u.s.
Mr. Beecher preached on the 'hourly preparation
to meet God in the other life," and some OF hi
hearers must have thought they had been rather
delayed in this work by those gentlemen who stooC
at the door Of the tabernacle, crying out, "Only
pew-holders allowed to enter at present." Silently
ard with Christian resignation, we trust those un
happy mortals who had been unable to bid for
pew, stood by while the elect, some OF whom, we
fear, imagined that they had paid price for the
first consideration of the Lord entered In silks anC
satins These anxious supplicatOrS To-
Divine grace wers no sooner seated than some o
them engaged in pious conversation about socable
and the price of gold.
At the Church of the Messiah-Unitarian-
a singing match was decided. The pastor!
place
was filed by Boston clergyman, who informed thu
congregation that he had heard much Of their sing
ing, and desired to ascertain for himself If the!
could do as well as the congregation on ''the Hub
Thus challenged, the wOrshippers struck up ''Fa
from mortal cares retreating," with an energy and
ustness that must have been gratifying to the chal
lenger, and we pray acceptable to Him, etc. TIT
match was worthy OF the metropolis.
At the Lyric Hall, Mr.. rockingham, tn,
person who assisted Mr.. Beecher in the clini
cal marriage of Richardson and the woman
Mcfarland, got into first principles and CHI
high chronological latitudes, and also some
what out of soundings. He delivered ''ser
mon on religion, which word has three def