National Republican., 1877-02-05
FIGHTING THE DEVIL.
AN INDEPENDENT CONGREGATION

Sunday Discussion at the Masonic Temple
Hard Times, Dress, Reform and DR.. Mary
walker.
Hard Timcs-Cause and Cure, )" was the sub
ject for discussion yesterday morning before tho
First Independent Congregation at Masonic Tom
pie. goodly number assembled, and being np-
parentiy Of practical turn OF mind, occupied the
by perusing the morning papers. The cougrega-
tion devoted themselves to this employment un-
III the rival Of Dr. T. Tallmadpo Taylor, who
announced that the exercises would commence
Prof Schell led OF with o voluntary on the organ
who produced manuscript, from which he read
He stated at the beginning that he was very
e H linz SrS and the Tss Az
reading Of Mr.. Mitcheil's production was inter.
rupted for n short time by tho entrance Of Or.
amen corner The substance Of Mr.. Miic6eii's
paper was that receiving interest on money is one
hS sss pi ns sSy isss ssS tho
bondholders In interest.
He also advocated free trade, and was partlcu;;
larly anxious that the women Of the land should
have voice In public matters.
Professor Brainard followed, and said tho din.
further back than the origin Of this Government.
II reached back to what Is called the fcudal sys.
TEN Of Europe, where men who ruled the nations
by the divine right OF kings received titles to large
estates and reduced the laborIng population to q
state Of serfdom: That system was ingrafted here
il prevails today, more especially through the
southern Statcs The difnculty that men labor
under 4 that they have been deprived BY The ss
The he light Of he sunSof the waters ! that dow In In
to the soil is the dfhculty. He had great adml.
ration for Andrew johnson, because he always
advocated that the public lands should only be
MT. Cocmes, tho next speaker, discussed the
policy Of abolishing ownership Of lands and held
strong @ would K @ once secure r and hold the most
fertile land, while the weaker would be driven to
Dr. %sTs %RS fRS the floor Her
marks weTo entirely devoted to the hobby Of drcss
reform. Twoor three persons LEFT the hall during
cert her. She apparently derived considerable
comfort from denominntng the subject Of dress
re%arksd reIS hS, Sny ia ,hs boase1 roo RspuSiic
Of America are the efforts Of those who advocate
dress reform received with dcrison and r!dicule
DR.. Boyd next ventilated his view. He thought
there were too many loafers In communities His
plan wouli be to set everybody at work, especially
work ior his bread should bo deprived ofi '
Mrs. DR.. Ellis followed In a vigorous speech,
dealing heavy blows at the drcss.rcform move.
men,, by while which h,,yy very hearty demonstrations Of
Mr.. Burr followed, taking up his ten minutes
in giving hisviews upon repudiaton. 1890
At this stage of the proceedings hostilities
were suspended for the purpose OF taking col.
Mr.. Bingham took the aoor and also strong
ground against permitting any one to monopolze
any more land than one man can cultivate. The
Christian Church he characterized as an organ
lied Church Of villainy-an organized Church Of
Christian heathcns
The next ten minutes were consumed by Dr.
Wright. He was particularly severe upon the
action Of Congress in the matter Of resum ption,
and said the "unrYhteous monetary system" was
an outgrowth Of legislators who are the craven
suppliants Of the bondhodors and Shylocks Of this
and tho Old World.
Dr. Godfrey was the last Speaker. He rather
favored the dress reform movement, and thought
that If women dressed differently there would not
be one physician to every seven persons as now.
DR.. Taylor announced that the same subject
would be open for discussion next Sabbath.
A motion 10 permit speakers to occupy fifteen
or twenty minutes each in speaking was over
ruled, and the meeting adjourned.