, 1873-10-27
PRACTICAL RELIGION.
Tho Doyil to Do Combatcd by tho Board
Of lIealtl-.~purity Of Soul to
Do Developed by Street.
Sweopcrs.
An Interesting Discourse by D1rs. Ed
ma Cheney, Of Boston.


ma Cheney, Of Boston.
Notwithstanding tho unpleasant character Of
The evening, n largo attendance WIS found at tho
fourth Unitarian Church yestorday, tho especial
attraction being m expected discourse BY Indy,
Mrs. Elna Cheney. Of Boston. Tho lady was
Boated with tho Rov. Mr.. Wendto, pastor Of tho
church, upon tho platform, md took m aotiv3
interest In the singing and other services. Per-
BonallY, Mrs. Cheney is q rnthor massiyoly1
formed woman. in the lhtor days Of lfo with
largo, woll.shapod hoad, undisguisod BY
aupornuous puffs, and o large, strong,
rathor aquilino faoo. Flor gray hair waa
simply knottod behind hor voice Id
worry agreeable, though slightly monotonoua,
and her dofivary clear and inte'1igible. HoF
hoarers listened with grave attention, mud wers
evidently deeply Interested in tho discourse.
Tie pastor took hiB text from st. Paul'a Seo-
ond Epistlo to tho Romans, aud, by way Of in
Producing tho lady, aaid that Il fow yours ago.
when ho waB q student ut tho Cambridge,
Divinity School, tho students formed club Tor.
tho purpose Of debating toplea Of reform. A.
member Of committee to socuro spoakcre.
on tho condition Of tho freedmen.
Of tho South, he had secured a.
lady, and, on announcing her namo,
found tho Faculty Of tho college mitch incensed
ut tho unprecedented attompt to allow woman
to preach. They would not talo the RESPONSE.
biity OF refusing permission to her to speak in
Divinity Chapel. The Indy, however, ascondea
the pulpit staita aud road her lecture. That
lady waH Mrs. Ohoney Of Boston, and ho
hoped sho would succeed in converting any who
wore opposed to women az pronchors.
Mrs. Cheney, on taking her staud upon the
platform, announced her toxt as from tho fourth
chapter Of the Gospel Of st. John.
Worship, sho said. satisfied want in the hui
! man soul by bringing it noaror to heaven and
heaven nearer to us. And yet we wero told
| TINT tho practice Of worship was dying out, and
from every indication tho romark was only too
true. In political point Of view this was right.
Worship, like all other phusea Of human lifo,
could last only while FREQ and flexible. In our
own conBciousnesB, It seemed that wo woro log
| Ing mnch by giving up this form Of Worship
Arc wo aa brave and true without It as our faith
| era were with 1t +? Was the homo profaned when
the day did not begin aud end With
family prayor2 If Our answer was that we
had lost something without finding anything to
replnce it, it was fatal. Perhaps We wonder that
it should be 80, but tie fact remaina that VIC arc
satiadod without this food, although nc think
that wc ought not to be. There wcro throo fac
tors that went to mako up tho sonHo Of worship.
One OF them was the response of creation to its
Creator taking form in tho gonorally accepted
belief that it Ii appreciated by the God above
Wortisworth in lis familiar lines to tic
rainbow. 1t did not mnttor whothor God OK
pocted it. 1t was tho sa1no fcoling of expression
which PROMPTED lovols to be porpetualy repeat
ing assurances Of their affection. In all hours
Of apprehension evil Boomed mishtior than good
Then tho fearful heart Boes and tramblos, and
the Creative power takes 3 n'alovolclls form, to
DO propitiatcd. Ihis feeling took form in the
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