The New York herald., 1870-04-17
A SUNDAY In NEW YORK.

From the London Saturday Review March 26.l
We are informed by the NEW YORK HERALD that
'the new editor OF the Oberlln (Ohio) Ne,cs mas
issued sautatory, brief but to the point He says,
we come here TO make money and q readable pa
per-" The salutatory'' Of journals which hope to
succeed and or journals which do succeed, ana the
valedlctory OF journals which fall might, we con-
ceive, as in Oberlin in London be reduced to the
terse formulary OF our Ohio contemporary. But
we come to reduce the statement to logical form the
proposition does not admit OF simple conversion All
that Is readable makes money, but we are hardly
prepared to admit that ell that makes money Is
readable. We have no doubt for example, that Mr.
Charles Dickens later novels, and mis- readings,
now brought positively for the last time
10 final farewell, make money, but we
should be sorry to pronounce the stories
readable or the elocullon toerable. The NEW YORK
HERALD itself by all accounts makes money, but its
''readabliy,"tO 10 use a probable phrase OF its ee-
giant writers, must depend upon public taste.
Among many speclaites OF this remarkable paper
aud 1t seems TO he an invention Of It's
OWLS giving on Monday twelve columns
OF reports OF the various sermons preached and
services held at the different churches and meeting
houses, tabernaces, conventicles, theatres, and
music halls In New York and Brooklyn. The re.
porters and penny-a-ners-we beg pardon, the
journaists-engaged on the NEW YORK HERALD
like their British brrthyen must arn their hands to
everything and we seem TO detect the same fine
Italian hand IN the reports OF New York religion and
Washington pleasures. 'Jam at the White HOusep
and "rhe GOssips Of Grace Church and the Beauties
oil Fashionable Worship and Lovely Lauies as Aids
Devotlon' have the same unmistaKabe navOr
OF Jenkins just as we find British chlffonnier
OF literature adapting the same style OF word
painting to the details OF buresque and TO
the Ecumenical Council. We note the TACT because
tons threatened or promised by Mr.. Bright we shall
probably some day find IN our Mondays news
papers coplos ana personal reports OF the sermons
Sunday morning We have already advanced a
step towards this desirable consummation. Already
the saturday papers, or some OF them give US a
prelibation OF the banquet about TO be spread next
day by our spiritual pastors and masters, and from
the increasing length OF the announcements made
by ecclesiastical t0uters OF Tie preachers In the
London churches tomorrow we conjecture that
the churches and The sects alike are getting fully
aware OF the advantages OF advertising. But, as
IN the case OF theatres ana other popular exhlbl-
tons. anlicpatory advertisements ought to find
tneir correlation In critical reports. play or
Durlesque Is advertised and then criticised. 1t Is
only far, il services sermons are advertised
That they should be reported. The NEW YORK
HERALD Is more logical than the PaU Mall Gazette
and the GtO6e.
The difficulty, and by little practice it may be got
over Is In getting penny-aliners to go to churchOr
rather when they nave got to church, IN getting
Journalists VINO sufficiently not to dis
play their entire ignorance subject. Just as
the typical unkeyof the estbo0k hoped ShaC IL would
be considered In MS wages If ne was TO berequred
to attend family prayers so we trust that the penny
alne has been raised TO twOpence III the case OF the
gentlemen olGhe press VINO are required by the NEW
YORK HERALD TO go 10 church on SUNDAY aud alter
wards write out their experiences or this unusual
exercise AT present we should say, Judging from
the reports in the NEW YORK HERALD OF FeD. rs, that
theological and archaeological technology hardly
comes Ike reading and writing, by nature; and we
remember some cases In this field or disqulsltion
among ourselves where +" able editors and
accurate sub-editors nave commtIed their journals
To queer blunders In unfamiliar matters. Years ago
the Times inserted report, communicated by some
expert, OF some choice ecclesiastical cele oration
IN which the writer described the altar OF new
church, or college, as elevated IN 4" foot.
printed IN the Times as "foot-pan." The NEW
YORK HERALD has not, perhaps committed so good
shows here and there the lucubratlons OF tyros
IN church-golng. 1t used 10 be said OF o deceased
bishop. who nad acquired knack oflooking very
unctuOus and religious IN church, that he always
joined III the Lords Prayer as though IL were de-
cided novelty which he mad met with for the first
time. The journalist VINO does Grace Church for the
HERALD may be pardoned Tor his gushing and en-
thusastic language, seeing that 1.-THE strlkingy i'm.
presslve enecp' or what he saw and heard was de.
cidecly the same sort OF Impression which Is made
upon us by our lrst pantomime. The picture Is
drawn py o novice in religious, but an expert LII
theatrical, ellects:-
The holy light streaming the multi
panes and devices IN glass the wavy pearls of music the
delicate tracery Gothic roof resting hgh eachng
moulded pillars the massive darkstained and richly fur
among the fair worshppers the of real aud calm
and quiet contemplation had altogether strkngy impres
slve effect
That to say the combination OF the beauty OF ho-
ness and the holiness OF beauty mad such an elf ct
upon the susceptible reporter that we not aIto-
gether surprised aC his con clusiOn:-
Sitting on a softly cushioned near the centre AISLE
midway between the cbance and the entrance listening
the music the ripple OF from the coDgre saon
and the full sonorous swell OF the readers voice DIM
cult feel otherwise than impulse OF sympathy this
order Of Christian worship.
Grace church, we need hardly say, is very ortho
dOx Epscopaan church. but not an extreme one.
And yet, II we may trust the reporter some things
are done there which would make even MIR. Purchas
stare and gasp. We are informed that latter the
splendid voice OF the Rev. MIR Egbert had ceased to
intone the lessons Of the day. the tall form OF the
Rev. DR.. Potter rose in the pupitn II in the of
New York the sermon follows the second lesson and
nothing follows the serm0n--T0r sucn we are ex
plicty told was the case on this Occasion-the New
York Epscopalans can hardly complain OF the
length Of their sunday devouons.
We fe.t curious 10 know how the more advanced
school manages matters across the Atlantic; bat we
regret TO say that the reporter ON ''St. Adams
Ritualistic church," evidently knowing nothing
ABOUT the matter, skuks from his duty III language
safe, but provokingly vague. We are only informed
that
The services OF the orthodox ruasc order. The on
ciang cergymen attred In eccesascal vements and
surrounded in their exercises by thong OF ed
chorsters While the celebraDt soenny rectes the pre-
scrbed passages the the alternately
tapers are lighted as the worship progresses.
The impression made upon the gentlemen Of the
press by the Eplscopaiian churches seems 10 have