The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-12
Che 8utland 1ailu Globe.
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1873.
Special correspondence Of the Globe.
From kso~tou.


From Boston,
IIosroN Dee. o. 1918.
Boston does not look very panic-strickCn
just now. With the near approach of
Christmas and New Years, the same hur-
rying crowds as of yorc, throng their streets
and fill her marts Of trade The shop win
dows are as gay with tempting Christmas
gifts AZ in years gone by, and stranger
that great commercial crisis was still
impending in the land. But there is
strength in the habit. and it may be
there are many in this surging crowd,
with its dailv ebb and flow, who drift along
from force of habit. gazing in at tempting
windows to admire what they arc power
less to possess, or going in and out OF
stores. passing from one counter to another
as for the tantalizng delight of bcholding
and handling the dainty fabrics, before
which, one year ago they would not have
dreamed of hcsitating TO count the cost
I lpbNlllfNN lll'If IL 'pllSlNltldbiN lNtlNtiN IL
mcnt in many quarters, and there will
have to he more before the winter gives
place TO spring but even if times are hard
and money scarce. who can forget Christ
mas
In short time, according to present
prospects, one will have to search long and
diligently for traces of the great fire of
November, -. Already immense ware
houses, fully as rich and of more varied
architecture. and far better fitted to resist
the attacks Of the fire-iicnd than those
which melted beneath his touch a year ago.
almost entirely cover the ''burned district.
Many Of the streets have been widencd and
otherwise improved. Franklin street still
preserves its graceful curves and altogether
| think it may he safely said that Boston's
terrible calamity has been turned to her
advantage, and that she is. certainly, in
many respects, better off to-day, than she
was eighteen months ago.
Rev. Newman Hall of London has been
thrilling Boston audiences with his elo-
quencc for some time past. The pulpits OF
churches. without regard to denomination,
have hidden him welcome. Last Sabbath
morning he preached in Clarendon street
I baptist church in the afternoon he
spoke to l. +. lIales congregation (Unita-
rian). and in the evening he addressed the
the people from the pulpit of Union
church (CongrcgationaD Columbus Avenue.
Wherever he speaks he is sure Of a crowded
audiences. and people who go once to heal
him are quite rs eager to 20 again. His
manner is unaffected but carries with it the
conviction of earncstncss and intensity OF
purpose in the speaker. His voice is cleal
and sonorous and supple obeying tho
speakers will in Il manner which does moi
fail to sway the mass of minds which place
themselves within lis sound.
James Freeman Clarke, pastor of the
Church of the Disciples, has announce
that bis platform would lie placed at tho
liberty Of any minister or ministers Of any
denomination, To cNpound theretrom on
successive Sabbath evenings, his or thei
peculiar views the pulpit, of course, 70 b'
occupied by different minister each time
Accordingly. IL week ago last Sabbath,
Catholic priest. whose name do not nov
recall. proclaimed from the platform of
radical Unitarian church, the doctrines o
the Holy Catholic Church. and last Sunda,
evening Mr. W II, II. Murray Of Parl
street church told the people somethin!
about CongregationaliSm. OF course MI
Clarke's audience room is crowded an,
many have to 90 away sorrowful becaus
there is no room.
The Young Women's Christian Associa
ton has just opened Il tair in Music Hall
The undertaking has fallen upon la,
time. but it is 10 be hoped that notwith
standing, it will prove success, for surcl
there is no worthior object to claim til
support and corporation Of bencvolen
people. \ history of this association
might not be uninteresting to the readers q
THE GLOBE. but the limits of this letter vii
scarcely allow of il, Another time Il brie
sketch Of the origin and growth AN
present needs of the Young Women
Christian Association of Boston, may b
presented. XII.