The New York herald., 1871-08-21
CHURCH OF THE UNHOLY BOWLER.

a First Glass Sensation and Its Resnit-B Bias
FheIny md Abusive Language ny the self
styled Prophet snow-A Painfully Susses-
tive scene.
That highly ill.favored irreligious lunatic who
calls himself "Blshop" Snow, "the man OF God" ana
other equally setfauthorized and blaspnemious ap-
pellations, held forth yesterday afternoon, at the
usual hour, in the little chapel OF the University,
Washington square, to an audience OF about forty
lean imbeciles like himself. The HERALD reporter
beng the only person present whose hair stood not
On end 'like quills upon The fretrul porcupine" !"
who bore no striking personal resemblance TO the
portrait of
THE UGLIEsr APOCALYPTiCAL BEAST
on the Bishops" diagram, ana who did OF look
remarkably like deserter from recent straight.
jacket discipline, was promptly recognized by the
most reverend blaspbemer; whereupon the latter
screwed his feroci0us features INTO wrathful
scowl, which he meant to be mighty malignant and
severe indeed. He then drew forth from his coat
tail pocket greasy copy OF last Mondays HERALD,
and read from its religious columns the report OF
his previous days exhibition of religion run mad,
At every sentence OF which his unique audience
uttered
A SERIES OF HORRIBLE HOwLs,
which they intended ior laughter. When he had
ana said he would put it to them whether that
reporters statements were true or false, in answer
to which every unievel ana deformed head in front
OF htm-that Is, every head but one in the whole
crowd-gave puzAiing nod that was meant to
De be- ooal aillrmatiye or negatve, Just as the
Bishop" construed the action into an expression Of
assent and readiness to agree with HIM IN any case,
whereupon lively negro girl right in front Of him
snoOk her woolly head. This showed 1.-The Angel OF
the Covenant that the audience were not entirely
unanimous on the point at issue ana he therefore,
tet himself bound to prove for the benefit OF the
doubtful ana dissentienk that every word In that
report was
III
This rufiiany fellow. this dirty reporter OF the
dirty HERALD said the ''Bishop' says in his dirty
ples-' Are you gaunt and decrepld9 Oh, no,
guess not; therefore. that's lie number one." (Gen-
nnlovely old maids) Lie number two continued
the .Angep1 says that l have rolling eye that
eI the stamps HaTe rolling ns rUS eners
npturnlng Of eyeballs) DID l ever take IN
sps w nv my ese i nn o1 be es any
the HERALD reporter is q liar ana scOun,lrel. 1
never look at the plate when 1t goes round ana
never look at what You put upon II. iWnk.) Lie
number three says that filthy rufian put ten cent
stamp on the plate: am sure he is sorry ne ala
II. He would not have given 1t only he was
BLIND DRUNK AT THE TIME,
and the recollection that he might have bought
another drink made him regret having parted win
It, Indeed am sorry to say that TOO many peo-
pie would rather buy whskey than pay the price Of
and S ine
"PrOpnet," .tnat that scoupdrel had offered ten
cent cent stamp ! would not have accepted II from his
drunken hands, Here somebody loudly whls-
pered, "Send 1t back"-an ab0minable ana spiteu
suggestion which so alarmed the messenger of
Jehovah' that he dropped the subject "Lie num-
Der AVE. ne continued Estates that pitched In
to the Christian religion. DO you know what the
meaning OF that elegant phrase pitched I'M isY Mods
OF assent rapidly repeatedly You do, chr Wen,
then, now ask you II did
PITCH INTO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION;
did IY (The blank stare from the audience in reply
PLAINLY said eve give that up.") l say that If to
the immortality or the SOUL taught by Plato and the
other old pagan philosophers be to pitch into the
Christian religion then did most undoubtedly pitch
into IL. But deny that pitched into Christianity
as IL was taught IN It's purity by Christ Himself,
whose special servant, messenger and prophet now
addresses you. Lie number Six sets forth that the
poor old ladies sang hymns Of my own make anu
selection. DID nobody sing but the poor old ladies'
Have we nobody mere but Old ladies' Here all the
spare-rbbed spnsfers leaned forward in their seats
men here? IAN the womens heads shook violently
To be sure that drunken reporter did not say that
nobody besides "the poor old ladies'" sang, but he
meant 1t all the same; therefore
HE Is A LIAR.
Will now pass to lie number seven. tYawns.)
Having quoted and matted number seven as salts
factOrly as he had all their predecessors, he went
on 10 number eight and nine, and up to seventeen,
each or winch ne demolished with the same unmer-
ciful logic OF general denial lie ended by angrily
upon It, crying at the same time, 'the dirty, filthy
rag The rotten dirty paper the abOminabie sheet Of
hellr
When the 'Bishop" recovered little from his MT
OF holy anger lie turned to the huge Bible that lay
on his desk, from which he read lew verses from
his ravOrlte Apocalypse, and upon the text he
founded long. rambling, incOherent and crazy dis
course, so blaspnemous and indecent in its nature
as to be entirely unit TO appear In the decVr0us cOl
umnS or the HERALD.