Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-02-21
lFrom the New York Herald
PEIIICOATS IN THE PrIPIT

It is a very delicate question
Ihey made terrible furry in Brook,
lyn's Presbyterian world about it
ana what wonder ? DR.. Cuyler had
invited sweet little duck of an uu-
oaptlzed Quaker, Miss Smiley (bappy
name y 70 preach in his church. She
preached, and such floods of repent
ance were never known in the history
OF Brooklyn's Lafayette avenue
church before.
But she left a state of war behind
her. The wives who had noticed the
extraordinarily rapid conversion of
their spouses led them gently home
ward, and ifever Mrs. CaudIe,s spirit
roamed abroad it was en- the nigbt
succeeding Miss Smiley's touching
sermon. The war generally opened
M M thIs fashion, with a query from
MIS-. CaudIe :-"What do you think,
uear, OF this woman preacher ?" To
winch the Benedict replies, elasping
MS hands and looking idiotically to.
wards the ceiling, ''I thought 1 was
listening TO an angel, so pure, so
touching, so novel" We cannot
transcribe the shrek of injured wife
hood which follows and can but faint
~ convey how her white, taper fin
ers wind tuggingly in and out
the locks upon his cranium
and how Benedict screws his face in.
10 the similitude of the eontorted gar
soyles on a Gothic church under that |
energetic appeal to his better FEELINGS
10 think.n she continues. stiIi |
his attention in the mild
manner indicated, "that I have
alked for days and months and
years to you upon the subject of re-
and that it was reserved for
strange woman to succeed. Oh.
Mr: Caudle, this is not religion.
MS Is" With the shrek that
olIoWs we draw the curtain. Bene-
Ilct, under protest, has been out
Vardly a foe to women preachers
yer since. But the evil did NOT end
lere. The male reverends had lost
heir attraction for him, and ne was
haken out of a sound sleep five times
uring the next sermon. The divines
oW TOOK the alarm at the inatten-
lOh OF the male members of the con-
regatlon, and formed a compact with {
ne sorely tormented females that
'oman-pTeaehinS should he put
wi WAN tile SLTODG n4nu. {
We now turn to the meeting Of the
'rooklyn PresbyteTy, on Monday l
lst, to try the case of Cuyler, the
Il-out immortal innoyatOr. The T
'ial went on. The charge was made. ,
Paul was flung at the devoted head
the eontumacioGs Cuyler. who
ad the temerity to dodge the great @
oostle. He was innocent, he said. \
e had. preached for the Friends and
vited Miss Smiley in return, who
about the vision of Jacob
resting with an angel, and never
I'd he listened to anything so pure,
touching, SO novel. This produced L
scene. The words recalled num-
r OF bona fde wrestlers with home g
gels anything but agreeable as t.
uvenirs. Rev. Van Dyke opened Il
lth this ranking in his vitals, and o.
IS impelled to a vigorous onslaught
lth tender TecOllections about the al
OTIS of his beard a
After two days Ofstruggle a resOlu- a
IN was passed which is intended to W
mildly eondemnatory of the un- W
ntrlte Cuyler, and which may be sc
'ked on as compromise between a
cir convictions and their necessities, q
d the affair ends in smoke. di
When the fandango was about to be 81
by the Inquisition a bold nj
vocate pleaded that it should be of
N before being condemned. A th
arming Spanish girl was introduced &C
the Holy Office, and Eheh she had &c
need the intoxicating measure such te
ceiling of mercy had taken posses w
u of the gray-haired Inquisitors th
It the ban was removed and fam
lgoes have been danced ever since. tn
his crucial test of experience held WI
ID OF so questionable a proceeding sic
he fandango, why not of a woman's ful
mon .? These divines should have an
ited Miss Smiley, and as upright po
ors, separating themselves from all tn
side influences, listened to her fro
'et woman's words ofinvocation or ste
ming, and they formulated a YER WI
as they found themselves moved arr
the spirit. They have left the
stiOn open, and it is reserved for a ed
Ire day TO vindicate woman's bra
m to a place in the pulpit as well &c
t the foot of it. Th