The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-08-02

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well together? What pity they cannot b.
jostled on ship board little! They woulc
learn to bear with each Other, and if we coul(
just bear and forbear with one another, so
cial millennium would ensue speedily.
wish some people that l know were sent t.
sea while. Does it not take great many
kinds Of people to make world and {
church too?
Monday night at 10 o'clock, was sitting
in my study, writing letters and talking witt
friends. The next night at the same time
waq one hundred miles from New York, OF
the broad Atlantic. That afternoon oul
course was down the splendid harbor of New
York, through the long lines of shipping
bearing the flags of mang Actions, We salu
ting the men-of-Bar which wepsssed, and re
ceiving the honors of their flags in return
Near Long Branch we met the great Yacht
race, twenty-five or thirty trim, sharp'lined
crafts covered with white canvass, and bound
ing through the waves like the sea gulls
above and around them. Friday we disem.
barked for a few hours at Halifax, Nova
Scotia, while the ship received sixty more
passengers. A stroll through its narrow
streets lined with ingy-looking houses and
enlivened with few pedestrians, and bare.
legged, killed Highlanders-does not pre-
possess one very highly in its favor. There
is look of apathy and paintlessness about
the town which rather chills and sobers the
visitor. Yet some of its merchants, compan.
ionable men among the passengers, predict
for it bright future. 1t has one of the
most magnificent harborS in the world, and
when the great Inter Colonial Railroad shall
be completed to Quebec, it will be the near.
est point on the American coast to England
for passengers from the United States and
the Pacific There will be continuous line
of Railway from San Francisco to Halifax,
and the traveller by this route will save 600
miles of sea water. In Halifax, I am told,
the Established Presbyterian Church is the
most numerous, wealthy, and active of all
the denominations.
Sunday, the Surgeon read the Service Of
the Church of England, in which all joined,
Protestant and Catholic, believer and unbe.
lever 1t was very solemn to sing, amid
the rushing of the waves, and to hear the
responses above the grinding of the screw
and the shoutings of the sailors at the ropes.
Why is it that in the new heavens and new
earth there shall be no sea?
The next Sabbath rose before o'clock,
splendid sun-rising, and about 5,
ae 6est sse of the Old
~. Land again after ten days of ocean.
1t was the extreme point of Ireland-the
"Skellig Rocks" then "the Cow, the Calf,
and the Bull" three barren rocks jutting
into the sea, and famous to many travellers
for the prophecy which they give of solid
earth again. Then came Bantry Bay, where
the French landed in their ill-timed and i'll
starred invasion of Great Britain. All
through the warm, bright summer day-for
sunshine and warmth came back with the
land-we sailed along the Irish coast. Down
to the very cliffs the land is cultivated. With
glass we can distinguish the square,
stone walled fields of grain, dotted here and
there with the potatoe patches, while the
whole aspect of the land is treeless, but green.
APP. NJ, we reached Queenstown, de-
livering the mails and some passengers to a
tender. The view from Cork Harbor is
magnificent. The rich country, the town.
the shipping, the splendid residence and park
of Lord Fermoy, and the Steamer Russia,
of the Cunard line, on her way to New York
Many hearts sent love and prayers to the
dear ones at home as she prepared to speed
onward to the now far off America, and We
thought of the fellow worshippers in our own
city, who at that time III A. NJ, in Balti
more,) were vending their way to the house
of God, the sanctuary of cur love. God bless
them all
When we awoke this Monday morning
we were in the midst of St. Georges chan
mel, passing the bold head lands and higl
mountains of Wales. On either side the sea
was dotted with many ships, telling US of oul
approach to the worlds great commercial me
tropolis. Onward we steam, with all our fagi
flying, past New Brighton where the sane
is black with bathers, and behind the shore
where the handsome villas rise, terrace upor
terrace, by the huge docks where ride th'
great ships from the East and the West; OF
our deck, friends shaking hands and promis
ing to meet again in their travels; the ba
bies Growing with delight; our anchor il
dropped, we pass from the great Steamship
to the little tender, three cheers are giver
for Capt. Delamotte and his officers, and so
with hearts full of gratitude to Him who ha
borne us safely SO many leagues, We sprin!
upon the wharf, and our feet tread the sol
of England. W. .. NJ.
CHURCH KITCHENS present popula
sociality which fits up kitchens and supper
rooms in church buildings, while it may b
in harmony with the debased machinery o
"charity" throughout, serves to degrad
communion into companionship, the mysti