The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-16
Pertinent Question Promptly Re.
spOnded To.


To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
Nothing is easier than to solve the "pertinent
question" propounded by Alexander Wood, New
ark. All evils are imaginary. Whatever there Is
Of misery Is due to surrOnndings-heat, moisture,
air, fre, water, volcanoes, tornadoes, simooms,
pestience, famine, war and other elements, all
called into action by the trespass Of Adam, with
which God had nothing to do. Besides the correct
view to take OF these things is the optimistic-vz.
that everything Is for the BEST man has his
skin peeled or by boiler explosion, and after lin
gering six months in excruciating pain gives up
the ghost, leaving . bed-ridden wife and sixteen
children In AFFECT poverty; woman Is jellIed by
telescope train and RECEIVERS only to be sent to
the Lunatic Asylum, the lamentations Of an aged
father and mother, who were sustained by her toll
to the contrary Notwithstanding; child falls from
fifth story window and is hideously crippled
every day, that keeps the pawnbroker busy;
another aband0ns himself or herself to the fishes
to hair line in fourteenth story rsrretit is ali
for the best! What more charming than to be-
struck by lightning, to freeze by inches In the
snow to burn up In mid-Ocean or be buried alive
In mine Moreover, God chastises man only Tor
his evil ways. so that the punishment cannot be re-
the man or woman that, God.iearing and law
abiding, walketh in the paths Of Goodness meek
wrath OF Heaven that wrath which St. Paul so
Saes to- he she nor any one else
scrstable and past human ken; the second, that
there is that higher bliss reserved for us in the
as these for temporary Inconvenience and mere
neshly agony. This latter adjustment, II II do not
ort ~ an6 Us upon n Is
f0rsoOtn, all the arguments here adduced may APP
pear trine inconsistent; hence the persians-
tive, ascriDing the bad to Ahriman the God OF
Darkness, and the good to ormuzd, the God Of
Light, very ingenious mode OF getting ever the
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phenomena witnessed in MesOpotamia and round
about Jerusalem led to the discovery that there is
one God and one only, embracing three Gods or
three In one, the author OF all good, and there the
Mrs. i. L. L., Bedford avenue, Williamsburg.
Church "Waiting Rooms"-Upper
Churchdom On It's Punctilio.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
on Sunday last went, with my wife and
daughter, to st. Thomas church, corner OF Fifty
third street and Fifth avenue, with the partial in
tention OF taking . pew there. We reached the
church at about twenty minutes to eleven. l i'm
mediately applied to the sexton for seats in the gal
lery as had been informed that there were vacant
pews there. He, in the tone OF a theatre usher,
directed us to go into the ''waiting room,n and
when the proper time came he would seat u.s. We
a number already waiting, either the convenience
OF the white-hared sexton or the carving out OF
sS, we entered the ns
its conclusion we looked for permission
to enter the church. We were disap-
pointed, however. The Psalter was then
at the concluding ''Gloria" we looked again for
the approach OF the sexton but In vain; several,
disguised, left the building. Tae voice Of the
minister could Just be detected reading the FIRST
lesson, when, having been kept standing in THIS
waiting room' nearly thirty minutes, turned
| to my wife and said, 1--WE have made mistake;
this cannot be Christian church. Let US go.'
nave been for many years, and am now, vestry-
| man In an Episcopal church IN this CITY, but never
before, In all OF my church experience, have been
the witness OF such Christianity as turns from its
d0ors those .n VINO come to worship God in conse-
| dom. Can the services Of . church SO conducted,
| reach hey ond the roof
Pope Plus TX. and His Enemies-The
Late Napoleon III. and His Italian Poll
iey-The Carlist Struggle In spain.
| To rHR EDITOR OF THE HERALD
The mission which has just terminated at 81.
Charles Borromeo's church, and which wa. espe.
cialy for men, has been very successful In q spfr
itual sense, thousands of hayward sinners having
been awakened from the lethargy OF the trans
gressor and put on the white garments of peace
and reconciliation with God. This great work was
performed through the instrumentaity OF the fer.
vent celebrations Of the Jesuit fathers-those
learned earnest and truly selfsacrincing apostles
OF the faith. The leader OF the missionary fathers
| who gave the mission at ST. Charles Borromeo's,
Brooklyn, was Rev. Father Garsechc, whose ability
as a spiritual and enduring preacher Is acknowl.
edged by all who heard him. On last Tuesday even
ing the writer was present at o lecture delivered
by that priest on pope Plus TX. and His Enemies, "
and many OF his utterances were truly worthy OF
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