The New York herald., 1873-10-19
Let us call things by their right names See what

Let MS call things by their right names See what
comes OF this.
There Is young man newly arrived in the city.
lie goes TO one OF these temples and listens 10 an
eloquent and soustirring discourse. wherein the
preacher dwells with great emphasis upon the
thai the development OF such a manhood
Is Is tne end and aim OF reglon-of Christianity.
soul Is stirred He inwardy resolves that from
hence.orth 1t shall be his endeavor TO cultivate the
hpper aud control the baser part OF hs nature.
pcfhaps tnis IS the frst time he has seriously
thought vi this matter. He continues to be so
much Interested that he is drawn to the place
again. lie goes ''eary," and takes a place on the
'lree seats.n Being young man Of intelligence
ana observation, he studies the different faces of
near him. Presently there enter pair who attract
his notice in a different way His attention is
drawn 10 their elaborate and expensive apparel.
Inese also take their seats on those apportloned
to the stranger and the poor, when instantly there
Is ''snr." prominent churchman and deacon,
who occupies one oil the "chief seats,n approaches
and graciously inquiries OF them 'whether they
would NOT prefer some other seat.n Whereupon
they conclude that they would, ana are immedl-
atey escorted 10 sit among the members who
''love land occupy the chief seats In the syn
agogue."
this proceeding at once propounds these questions
to himsell:-"Why Is thisg Was 1t because OF the
superior worth Oh the manhood OF these that this
venerable churchman manifested TO them supe.
rlor respect, or was all that courtesy bestowed
upon their cothlngr 1t was too apparent He Is
loath TO believe what he has seen. HIS newly en-
knded Idea OF the worth OF manhood above all
other things has in this very same place received
its first and crushing blow, and by those who could
strike that blow with most enect In that place,
which his young Imagination had transformers INTO
the very gate OF heaven, he benolds sray.naired
Wealth and Fashion, and he painfully awakens to
the consciousness that his gate OF heaven Is but
temple OF Mammon "ls 1t, then, all delusi0nY'
he muses.. "is II really true that noble MANHOOD
Is more to be desired than godY There are men
great deal older and wiser :han i, ana Chils-
tians, too, who have listened to many discourses
ike the one which SO much impressed me,
and they do not believe that manhood is OF much
account for see what attention they Dest0w upon
wealth. 1t was not their manhood, but their gar
Inents, their insignia of wealth, which caused them
to be so much respected and so courteously
treated.n And he leaves that place sad-hearted and
disgusted, never caring to enter 1t again.
be sad to this 81 seeker e after trathswhy seek ye
the living among the deadY He Is not here. but Is
riSen.n
'.But woe unto you. scribes and Pharlsees and
hypocrltes, Tor ye shut up the Kingdom oi heaven
against men. for ye neither go IN yourselves,
Christianity is for the uplifting and ennobng OF
humanity, and men are accustomed to look to the
churches as the chief instrumentallties for the fur
therance OF this end. And what do we see there
nance OF "caste"-an ignoble lusting after
supremacy Of position; and, instead Of being
our churches have become, indirectly,
M,, to crime
wealth. must be mad even at the cost OF integrity.
And Tor this reason to be well seated in church Is
premiums on the chief seats must be paid even
though their neighbor be delrauded to make the
payment
Bind stone-blnd must they be who cannot per.
ceiye that by honoring with their actions the moth
ingness Of liie's poor distinctions they bereave
themselves OF all real power Tor the promotion Of
truth and goodness. There is no deadIier warfare
waged against manhood than that which is indi-
rectly carried on in our churches.
.My life, y said woman to me, grows hard and
bitter" "Why so ?" inquired. She remarked, ~
work lor members Of the church to which belong,
and, instead OF the kindliness and human fellow
ship which I expected to find in that church.
find no fellowship at all; but, instead, cold and
dreary isolation, and am viewed by them merely as
o working machine"
1t is Of the greatest Importance that One's life
should not "grow hard and bitter" but, instead
thereof, sweet and tender and il by uniting with
and remaining in our churches and being acted
upon by their examples OF practice in q manner
which tends to degrade rather than uplift to crush
down rather than upbuild this noble manhood,
and thereby, through eeling this and being unable
to rise above it, ones life must needs "gr0w hard
and bitter sucn cannot be too too earnestly
recommended to "come out from among them and
be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing,n
ior no serldom could be more pitiful than the char
acter which such influences have tendency to
build ISABELLA B. LANGSTON.