The New York herald., 1874-11-15
NEW YORK HERALD SUNDAY NOVEMBER -QuADRUPIE

home and enjoy their easy lounge, for most OF
aoe ,ae 10 m ssnss %
they wander along our streets. and unless some
interesting entertainment Is being given under
leisure hours, they accept the conditions OF the
street and become victims to all the temptations
Sunday should be day OF feast and not OF fast,
and that our sunday evenings should be devoted
70 innocent and wholesome amusement.
THE PRESENT DUTY OF THE CLERGY
II ministers generally mad any regard for the
public they would all lndorse our sunday evening
concerts. believe II TO be the duty OF the clergy
to DO Sc, for by attending these concerts cares are
forgotten, low tastes are elevared and the sabbath
regarded as pleasure and not a bore.
MY ideas upon this subject many may regard as
peculiar and some as exceedingly radical. but.
nevertheless think the opinions expressed are
correct, and that the future Will see them in
dorsed by large majority oi our people. For
long sime past our laboring classes have spent
rooms. where tnev have learned nothing, where
they nave been brought IN contact with rtotous
M nave been gradually depraved and wnere they
have begun the descent to the lowest anu
dresriest avenues OF vice and crime. This beng
the case feel myself r1ght in welcoming any
form OF amusement, such as the sunday concert.
tnat VIII divorce them from these nnwholesome
and depraving influences and that win cause
them 10 leave their cups and all their depraving
associations
HOW SUNDAY SHOULD BE SPENT
have always maintained tnat wnen q man has
been 10 church once on Sunday he has been
enough. But even admitting that he attends
attendance amounts to only little more Than
Iour or rve hours, and how shall he spenu the re.
mainder Of the days The poor man, pent up In a
badly ventilated home, willingly wends his way
INTO the street. and which resDrr IL II best for his
his MANHOOD anu enjoyment TO lrequent-the
dram snop or the concerty Tne latter, beyond oil
question; and when the poor man does this he Will
better MS condition socially, mentally, physically.
and when he does TINS our drinking saloons Will
become less numerous and vice, immortality and
crime Will greatly decrease.
ABOUT SUNDAY EVENING MrsfC.
In regard to the music which our sunday even.
ing concerts should furnish my ideas are also
peculiar. do not think that II should be 0ratorlo
music, with its sonlDre measures and solemn
words, but music that Is pleasing and graceful
music that VIII charm the mind and direct 1t from
care; music that Will find It's way TO the popular
heart, awaken wlLhln IL all It's latent passions
and thus expand Its most delicate emoTions,
sentiments and sympathles; music that viii
arouse within the brain and soul OF the
convictions which he never experienced before,
but which, the moment they are awaEened, viii
arouse within him new instincts from which ne
may ceduce the conclusion that beyond him snere
Is higher order oI existence to which, even vii h
his limited resources and opportunities, he may,
with the greatest FACILITY, attain.
MIR. FROTHlNGHAM AND THE HERALD.
stand 1t has taken In relation to our sunday
certs. the views given In its columns coincide
with mine, aud IN prOclaiminR them II Is doing
more Tor the elevation or the middle classes and
the aesthetic culture OF the popuace than Its man.
agement has any idea VI. IL has been nv aim tor
many years TO render our Sunday evenings plea
SAINT and enjoyable, and 1t shall be my labor dur.
right and wholesome that Is calculated to make
them so.