The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-07
CiNlL STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH..

Criminal Carelessness Caused tae Great
Calamity en- the Westneld-luiet Resting
Places-D.course by the Rev. David
Mitchell.
At the Canal street Presbyterian church yesterday
the Rev. David Mitchell took for his text the words
"Aad my people snail dwell in quiet resting places"
He said:-rhere is something IN TINS season
OF the year that calls aimcst impcrativey
for change. When the dust and heat
OF the city become so TO say. unbearabe, one natu-
rally turns 10 the country for reuef and rest. To
mind the beau ideal or happiness at this time Is to
possess FARM bat II you can't go on farm OF your
own the next best thing IS
THE FARM OF A FRIEND,
and if that is not practicable some farm is better
than none al all. The reverend gentleman then
went on 10 describe the beauties OF truly rustic
liie The earths green mantle beneath ones feet
for carpet the glorious summer sky, the songs OF
the birds, the waters winding through the velvet
valleys and the Wild flowers bursting forth sponta-
neously from natures bosom. These, be said,
were the attractions countrY life, they were
nowhere to be found out OF Gods broad DOMAIN. AS
the husbandman goes out TO reap what he has sown,
SO does the hearty worker in the turmon Of the
world gather In the fruit OF the seed he has scat
tered. IN the quiet Of country life great thoughts
are born which men Of mind afterwari apply to the
general we'll beng of the world. Many people rush
and stir, and life itself Is little better than hollow
mockery others with alpine stock climb up the side
OF the mountaln; some lounge III craft thai glide
upon
THE SURFACE OF THE SEA;
and others wildly rattle from place TO plaCe-never
content, never comfortable and never finding
quiet resting place.
The Doctor said he was happy to say the time had
come when he could enjoy his vacation and indulge
his passion for farming. Ministers, he said, are but
men, and they require TO rest in some quiet nook at
require II more than very many OF those who are
constantly enjoying themselves, for their du-
in IN their demands. The reverend gentleman
then ENLARGED upon the duties OF the ministry ana
pointed out the necessity and effect OF change upon
all brain workers. Something more than Sleep he
SAID, is necessary for this class OF worker and to
EXPRESSION and Inc enthusiasm Of the Writer he
must now and then slip away to some quiet resting
pace. From there he Will come back refreshed and
inVgOrated for his work, and all the world will
prodt by his rest. Compare The lives and labor
OF these men with the butterflies of fashion
and you Will ind a reality and intensity in the one
that the other Is incapable Of The heated bali
room Of the fashionable watering place and the
thousand other excuses nave worn nature out, and
instead OF having gone to some quiet resting place
where nature would be buoyed up and strengthened
and unequal to the struggle. When they have dis
PEELED the false HAIR and the padding there Is no
icsn and blood left to battle with the cold Men are
wrong who think
LIFE IS NOTHING BUT A PAINTED SHOW
Let them silt tito the bottom, and they viii find
q glowing, healthy current, a brilliant, glittering
stream OF puresr water upon which the sun shines
down with bright refuigence. But week ago, and
shortly alter the morning service, the community
startled to Its very depths by Of those dlsas
tiers, terrible horrors l cali them, that make men
stop their wild career and wonder whittier they
are drifting. wealthy company invites the people
TO patrOnize their accommodation, and hundreds OF
the poor, worn out drudges Of the city hasten
breathe the fresh air and take some brief
respite from their daily cares upon our noble waters.
With all assurance OF safety they go the boat
and all is laughter and preparation for enjoyment,
when suddenly WORKOUT boiler rends It's sides and
SrEA
drives out tearing all before IT, and tossing men,
women and children, boiled and roasted, into the
terrible lear blame IN so' toss s wo asae
be purveyors OF the peoples wants, for,
mind you. tins was not an ,t excursion boat,
fearful scene of DEATH Human beings OF every age
struggling IN the last agonIes OF rrightful death
wild desire TO escape little from the awful
they are suffering Child sinking further In its
husband down to the dark bottom Where
eternity begins Which of You would come
no me say ps asSS
manned, that they had met with their deserts In
breaking the SaobatnS What would you nave SAID
To me IT, when had gone to Bellevue, went about
from bed to bed and said to unfortunate sufferers,
as they lay groaning on the pallet IT served you
right for gong out Sunday? You would have
said
I WAS MONSTER,
and so should be. The preacher then went on to
paint the homes OF the poor working classes,
and showed the necessity there was in their
lives that they should be able 10 spend sunday
by the rivers side or upon the bay and when
an opportunity came that they should get as much
OF the country air and life as their circumstances
would permit He did not blame them that they
could not always come TO church; II they could
arrange It that one could come at time all the
better, but II not ne was certainly OF the opinion
they did quite right in taking all the advantage of
the sunshine, the open air and the water they could
Lifc with all OF US, he said. was so uncertain. In
the morning we are as grass that groweth up, IN
the evening we Wltneretn.