The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-22

Street Presbyterian church, this evening, Will be
addressed by Rev. II. d. Northrop.
There Will De services at the usual hours. morn
ing afternoon and evening, in De Garmo Hall, the
first including n scientific" discourse by 8. +.
Andrews
The Thursday evening prayer and experience
meetings are continued at Benjamin Aibro's.
Dedicatl0n-St. Joseph's, Ire.
mont.
The new church OF st. Joseph, fremont, NJ
Y, will be dedicated to-day py the Right Rev.
Bishop COrrigan, OF Newark N. J.. This handsome
temple OF worship Is OF the pure Gothic style OF
built Of brick with white stone
facngs. The windows OF stained glass, with
scriptural and ecclesiastical designs painted in the
medieval style OF monastic decorations. the cor
ner stone was laid last summer, and since
thcn the Rev. Father Stumpe, the indeafi-
gable pastor OF Melrose, has been untrlng
In MS exer1Gns 70 complete TINS c ny ara1
The ceremonies to-day will be on scale of unusual
magn,hcence; Many priests from the CITY and
class singers VIII give Mozart's celebrated No. II,
with organ and orchestral accompaniment. The
sermon Will he preached by the Kew. Nlchoias
T6e ceremony viii begin at eleven O'Clock A. NJ,
in order to enable New Workers 10 leave by the
nine O'Clock A. NJ train from the Forty second
street depot and Join with the people OF fremont
In the dedication services OF this new and hand
6Oiuc NothVhO CuuICL.
The Problem OF Poverty from a Practical
and Theoretical Standpoint.
To THE EDITOR OF The HERALD
have been looking over some OF the charities OF
New York during the past week, and feel like
chatting bit on that subject This whole problem
of poverty ana its relief Is the knottiest part OF
political economy. 1t is great deal easier to get
safely through the eye of needle than to find path
nj no rtv Of q ri
Numberless plans have been devised, their object
being to make wOrkingmen save a portion OF their
wages Tor the rainy day which is to come, but
SO far both pailanuhropists and philosophers have
mad their labor for their pains. Some OF these
plans have been practical, and have resulted In
large amount OF good; others have been faEciml
and imaginative, and could no more be put into
practice than could the Utopian dreams OF school,
boy who expects to alter the whole destiny Of the
world in three months.
FANATICS.
We have fanatics in philanthropy as well as in
politics. They are O peculiar race, and can be
easily detected In crowd OF men OF common
sense. lhsve seen great many Of them. Their
HAIR is generally parted in the middle and flows
gracefully over the shoulders The bump of IDEAL
ity is as large Us q rooins egg, and makes the
head LOOK as though an incipient horn were just
beginning to protrude on either side. The organs
OF perception hang the eyes like the caves OF
0ld-fashloned house, while the reflective part OF
the brain slopes backward ike roof. They always
have patent notion, which, once adopted, will
render the banking system stable, alter the tariff,
lower the taxes lty per cent, and. without taxing
o penny IRON the rich man, sweep poverty and
crime from the lace OF the earth. 1t would be very
pitiful If 1t were not so laughable TO hear these
men talk But the trouble is they bore one to
DEATH They come into your study when you
are particularly busy, and begin to unfold
scheme which Is to root up every evil
IN New York in twenty minutes. you will only
lend them your church to talk in. get an audience
to listen to them, take up a collection and 60
halves with them, they will astound you and your
people by the revelation Of great secret, which
they have been bordering over Tor years. and which
will enable them to cure every social evil to which
the community Is heir. said to one Of these pests
the other day: -
"My dear sir, how is 1t that the world allows you
to wear such poor clothes and boots down at the
heel and out at the toe when you could make all
mankind happy and contented In three months S''
"Ahi it's an ungrateful world we live in," he re.
piled; "and true merit goes unrewarded, while
shams and hypOcrisleS pile up wealth."
advised hun to get an honest living, but to no
purpose He was born TO evangehze the world,
and could not funk OF STOPPING to manual labor.
THE GOOD WORK DONE.
Now, on the other hand, what an amount of
really charitable work, and OF the true KIND, has
been done III this city during the last lin ter. 1
wonder how many thousands have been led and
the poor Is twice blessed; IL besseth him that
gives and him tnat takes. Soup houses ali over
the city report numbers in waiting actually fabu.
lOus. Not only the churches, but private gentle
men also, nave contributed III the most marked
way to the general alienation of suffering ana
Thousands. who DrOua hay
seen the starvation which stared them In the lace
gradually vanish before the presence Of that true
philanthropy which does not take pride in CHARITY,
but relieves the poor, because, according to the
Masters religion, the poor are the wards OF the
But hear some surly philosopher, who guards
his money bags very carefully, saying, "Why need
people suffer by poverty There's always wOrk
enough l0r bright stirring, shrewd man." That
is true, indeed, my friend; 1t very rarely happens
that bright, stirring. shrewd man goes to a soup
house Tor his meals. The working classes are un-
doubtedy improvident They get very large
wages more per year than the salaries OF MINIS
tiers throughout the land Will average, and they
certainly would, II they had an atom OF prudence
money for just such times as this winter. But
there are certain facts. inexorable facts, In con-
nection Win city populations, and also in connec-
ton with different classes OF people, which must
not be ignored. One OF these facts Is that very
large proportion OF tne Workins classes never have
to be improvdent. They spend as they 90, they
live from hand to mouth, and they always will. I
DO not say that they are incapable OF education in
this respect, but | do say that they are poor
because they are imprOvident, ana they are also
improvldent because they are poor. 1t is the ma
ture OF some people always to be behindhand, and
1t seems next to impossible to teach them to be
otherwise. Now, then, when you get together
1000, 900 people, as in this city, large number Will
be shrewd, saving and fortunate, and they WILL
after some years, buy ireestOne fronts the ave-
nue.. still larger number VIII be always strug-
Cling alter the same result and never quite attain
ing 1t, Tor exactly what reason no man can tell,
and these Will live In wel-to-do fashion the
side streets. And then number, larger than these
two gether will have no higher ambition than to
get their wages regularly, to have steady work,
and to shirk even that as much as possible, and
these Will live we'll when there Is plenty and
starve the rest OF the time. Now that division
seems to be inevitable. 1t was true OF Athens and
Rome and Babylon, and IL is true OF every city
on the planet to-day. II you ask me why
1t Is So confess to being puzzled, but the
fact that 1t Is 50 even the duiiest can see know
that the rich have very little patience with the
poor, but you might just as reasonably become i'm.
patient With q man for having black skin. Prac-
tically he Can't nep 1t, and, practically, the rich
man does not deserve hair the credit he gets for
being wealthy. There seems to be something IN
Luce. Some men will make money wnere others