Litchfield enquirer., 1873-03-13

of our prepared printed compositions, ar ranged with directions for the stops. Just select at your pleasure, and we'll insert them accordingly. We generally use the principal for exhibition"
 ' took the little catalogue, and selected from under the head of Triumphant the Ninety-fifth Psalm, in the Vulgate Latin. S' Teaite erulte111Ns Domino"
 This having been taken from closet, inserted in the combined-action minister, and delivered by him in au overpowering strain of congratulatorY eloquence, my friend proceeded, at my request, to cause the enu1iciation by the figure of the Ath- anasian Creed, with all the curses com plete q looked for that of Ernulphus, but it was not on the lst), as an exemplfca- ton of the damnatory or threatening stop. After that Ee gave me Wesley's ''Sinners, turn: why will ye die ?" on the hortatory or didactic stop; and other pieces in the three other sermon styles,-the hifalutin or camp meeting, the intoning or iturgic, and the sweet-cream or dearly-beloved.
 Having thus seen all that was to be seen ill the factory, we completed our cir cuitgby returning to the office, where I had long and interesting conversation with BudlOng, of which l may reproduce some of the chief points, without pretend ing to verbal accuracy.
 The first of these points, if my say so, was an interruption. I had hardly sat down. whom jumped up again; not be- cause sat on cat or A pin, but because a great awful voice cried. '"Twelve o'clock P The tone was really awful It was musical, but vast, booming, and deep; and the sound throbbed in my ears like the note of heavy bell close at hand; and it's reverberations filled all the air; so that it came, seemingly, from everywhere, not from any place.
 Budlong laughed until he cried. ''I forgot to tell you" he said when he could speak, ''we have Friar Bacon's brazen head, discovered at Oxford, and imported for us at great expense. We use it instead of bell or whistle, just as the American Organ Factory in Boston plays common chord for the same pur- pose.'
 I recovered myself as we'll as I could, and told him, that, after all, he had only revived an old device in his mechanical deyotions; that his clock-work sermoniz- ing bore much analogy to the Buddhist mills, that are turned by water wheels or by wind. ..rs0..
 Budlong laughed again. 'I confess" he said, ''this much. I am member of the First Radical Club; and you know they run Buddhist prayer-mill in the back-room all the time, by little hy- draulic ram supplied from the Cochituate pipes. Not one of them will admit that they believe there's anything in it; but still, you know, it can do no harm to be ri 0l,t o1l tho roooVS Vnu ho1a %bo old story of the Englshman in Rome, who took off his hat and made low bow to. Jupiter, and requested the civility should be remembered in case the Olympian dy- nasty should ever be re-established? I am not sure but our modern wise men of the western east my have given me the caI. taf''' f' '0 t-"''.',l -''''O ~ p'"0''
 ''In certain sense, admitted. "But have you made it pay? What is the pres ent state of the enterprise fnacially P
 "Eminently satisfactory. We are just now, for instance, filling an order for ministers. But, the next is for lectur- ers''- os
 Lecturers r interrupted, as that grim row of portrait heads in the Blue- beard chamber flashed across my mind in B new hght-"then those ikenesses"- stopped; but had let it out. Budlong turned quite red, and looked, may say, almost sheepish; but finally he made the best of 1t by saying ood-naturedly,-
 "An, peeping Tom P
 ''l confess" said; ''but I couldn't possibly have imagined the door forbid 1en."
 ''And it's our own fault too" reioined ne. 'We ought to have locked it, and hidden the key. So I'll confess too. The ,act is, that we are running a pretty i'm oortant part of the featuring business at present.. Don't you remember that odd title newspaper controversy Q few weeks go, in consequence of 'The LeavenwOrth Champion and 'The Bangor Courier each aying that certain eminent speaker lec- nred at its respective city on one and the anne eyening?"
 I did. ... ..-.
 Well, VIC had terrible time to quiet down. You see, the first-class speakers eceive ten times as many invitations as hey can accept. Now, we furnish fac imile, who exactly duplicates the emi- ent gentleman; and we have half the honey. Between you and me, we have ad as many as five of one or two men peaking in different parts of the United | 'tates at the same time. Very likely it ] 'on't last; but we're coining money out 1 f it now"
 ''And the celebrated foreign gentle 1 len?" 1 asked. .ss..- 4G f,r...
 ''Pshaw P said Budlong. ''They're all afe at home, minding their own business. Iobody knows them: so that it's great cal easier to put their doubles on the tage than the domestic article"
 parodied Campbell, -
 ''Both Pepper and his Ghost shade!" nd then I added; ''but really you'll do | way with all public speaking, seems to | le Y'
 "None of my lookout if we do," was his | ynical answer. Mot with real speaking, l lough. Reading a manuscript isn't l peaking. We have done away with some | f that What do you suppose it is, ex- ept our invention, that has caused the ecrease that the religious papers are al- avs complaining of, in the number of l raduates from the theological semina- es ?"
 'But, my dear fellow" remonstrated, what the dickens What is the effect | f all this, pray tell me, on the stated re- gious observances of the country? You 1rely do not think it right to impede lem, or to push them, out of use ?"
 .'No. But what do think is this, that | eal religion will harmonize just as readi- I and perfectly with improvements in art 5 with advances in science. The ques- on isn't what the uew invention or scien- fic truth will bring to pass: that will take Ire of itself The only question is, neither it is a. truth, whether it is a dis overy." sEt II cant bring myself to give up ser lons." -.
 "Giye up? You're going to have 'em neaper than ever. Why, the interest on ne of our first-classs ministers isn't one- | nth of decent salary; and I'll guaran- ,e him to outlive crow. He'll save his | VII first cost full up in from five to ten ears; and with care he won't cost five | ollars year for repairs. Then, look at le economy of the whole plan.. Here are our human ministers that must have a llary, and a family and houseroom, and row old or sick or heretical or tiresome; r they quarrel with the parish;. or the narrels with them. But the patent min