The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-01-19
:. JEHIAL sLAE."
Concerning Beecher's Church.

Concerning Beecher's Church. ia
-H r[From the Cincinnati Timesl 9
The Plymouth people have done
two good things :.:1r rte ffgE aNE /
1st. TLey have built q great big
barn of a house, and built it plain
enough to make even an orthodox
Quaker happy. ,aiee = }4@ -"
ID. They have an organ and choir
quite large enough to anchor all the
music that even the most Beechery
congregation can make. But; @ la
Sd. I seem to feel. it iii my bones
yet (nearly four months have passed
sinceI [ was there) that their treatment
of strangers, as regards seating, can
be vastly bettered. ns1l $3.50 s55sl 8a
AS this matter is now managed, you
want to get over to Brooklyn about
seven O'Clock in the morning. Even
at that early hour you will probably
find crowd headed at the church,
and convoluting body aud tail down
somewhere near. Fulton ferry. If
bright morning you, viii probably
come into that crowd about the hum
Edred and seventeenth from the main
l,entranee. ,t,,,.lz l.aff'r,l l5ssfg ai4, :.
/ Take, your place and be of good
cheer as. you can. Doors open, at nine
performance begins at halfrpast ten.5 d.
f When niue o'clock comes two
ichances will invite your consideration
gdf1st. You can go up stairs at, once
and let them. make gallery WALL
fiowerIof you. = Si,l..5r.,iit.s.stil 81.
3D. Y on can stay down stairs and
continue to rest, first on one foot and
then on the other, humble as an un7
sheltered rooster in a snow7squaH, till
the stranger multitude, is let. into the
body OF the house at half-past ten.
Then, if you have been lucky enough
to live SO long, (from ten to, half-past
|, ten you must expect to he squeezed
about as flat as q dried. fig Hyyyou re-
main in. that Beecher-distracted null
titude outside, but, if you survive, /
say, and the seats. haven't all been
filled by the. church members and
their friends, and mot toe. many of your
fellow -citizeiis, with superior cheek
and muscle, have elbowed in ahead of
you, there Will be a seat for you some
where in the body of the church.
EnoBut tyou uiwon't9waitg You will pre-
!. fer to go UP gallery at snined o'clock.
| No doubt about that. If YOU are.
I as was, you win be fully prepared
| to- get up on pole and roost by that
ktime.3 IS 9I20I 2f4- 81 ~ ''.-t'
Y GU and the restlofn your fellow
! achers 60 tramping up stairs, therefore
like troop of hungry passengers to
dinner on a Mississippi river steam
boat. You square down nqufck" on
that long outside bench, (thelonly2
YOU are permitted to- occupy,l and
| heavily sigh out deep, inward sense
of thankfulness for such great com
i fort. .SGffi2494 DIE 'h''Ais'
F.I@But somehow, comfort don't stay
with you worth a cent up there. The
pantaloon ends seem, to, rest well
] enough under that hard, perpendicu-
4 lar WALL But you speedily find your
tself getting tired about the back and
shoulders as a new pack peddler. gadl
l!lsNot a bit of help for that though.
Nice, comfortable Seats for at; least
two thousand people before you, ali
! quite empty. And there three or four
hundred ofyou poor, miserable beings
4 have to sit, uneasy. as so, many frogs
/ around pond, with their legs tied
together, all anxious to get away and
hop into comfort, and all SO watched
j by those remorseless ushers that you
: can't. Great TaHtalusis Ugh
: % Suddenly you hear a queer noise
3 outside. Ii tlsounds, where you are
like heavy blows tolling on. a great
cracked brass kettle. Ia Take courage
again. That's the first bell.
Then, down below, you begin to
see spots of humanity moving to and
fro like flies ON kitchen ceiling wher
! it first begins to warm up on a COO
" October morning.
The spots grow more numerous an6
more lively. 5FDH at
d r aHalf-past ten approaches. The
church inside is already aswarm will
, active Plymouth people. Outside al
, is hurry and anxiety in still greater
: degree. Other Plymouth people ant
i their family retinues edge faster ant
!, faster along between the rapidly
caving banks of humanity in the yes
: tfbhle, and, as if suddenly let loost
!, from a good solid, final pull at thi
door, came in on trot almost ~ p
i I Outward, as fafias you can see, mel
and women stand blocking the en-
|. frances, -tip-toeing,; craneing theil
necks after a look inside the better tt
+ calculate chances, -i'.il
: Then the big, cracked Kettle clang
f again, the ushers step briskly forward
|. the folding seats open into the aisle
with click! clacl1! clack! all owe
!. the house, and the rest cf the belate(
saints of Plymouth have to take thei
! chances with the .miserably weariet
F strangees. who have come. some o
them, a Thousand miles to hear Beech
: er, dtog bsssrG saa .04nim00 80
4 Much has been said, and justly, 0
, the simplicity. of Plymouth Church
the catholicity and liberal;ty of it
| members and management, and ith
great ability and usefulness oflit
! preacher. ~ Hatr5.6a egw .9uisfs
fiel9You considerably; weigh all that
q sitting there on your Wall-backet
! bench, every bone in your BOD,
: aching. Then, if religious, you calml.
q wish: is.s7ift-, fI5aao'8 go .85lI =
I ri. That Beecher may be driven on
= OF bed early. some bright, Sunda
!, morning, and over to Brooklyn incoe
n ne2. That he may not only get owe
o there as early as you did, but be serve
t exactly as you We're, by those con
, founded ushers. ...--,-a .o
I 3. That he may then be compelle
4 to carry his aching limbs down on t
q the platform as the bell rings, and b
d made to tell what he. knows abou
J. patience. . ..o...-. -..ff,s.a1.sti.. T..
:. Ifyou are irreligious--there, kno,
h my article is long enough by this tim,
; Please excuse me, reader, 3iis2 - i
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