The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-09-22
The London Roughs' Dance
Of Death.
STURGEON ON PROVIDENCE
Many Sermons and Inter
eSting Statistics.
LONDON. Sent. 10. ls7s

OF loss OF The Princess Alice 10 expound
10 his hearers the view that tue calamity was sent
with particular purpose-lhat It came rom God.
that came Voice OF God TO the CITY," In the
way OF pleasure, from eighty 10 hundred thousand
Cockntys went uown The river IN steamboats,, wher-
ries, by road aud RAN, some thousands OF whom
foul hi scuIled over standing room aud
the securing OF relics, got drunk, ihougnt
"whst a day aving." and 70.
turned to the city singing aud making things
generally lively Tor the more sedats portion OF
the 81. htseers In many churches, especially ut
woolw cn and down the nyer sermons were cached
Of great depth and fervor 10 the places wnere the
rorpsss are placed repeated the terrible scenes
Of search aud recognition with which the readers of
the papers are 90 lam liar.
THE LONDON RouGHs
"Scratch Russian and you lnd Tartar" says
the old provero. Scratch Cockney and you ind
some ny worse than brute IL seems while the
preachers "e,e expouodHe 10 their docks
the awful lessons OF the Catastrophe the
mob the anording shame
tui and degrading spectacle that Will make the
New Zcalsnder, wnen he sits the arches OF London
bridge the sad In the chronicles oil
Father Thames, blush with shame. Fifty thousand
persons North WoolwIch, all bent on enjoying
Themselves 10 their own peculiar fashion. scores OF
pleasure steamboats,, oaued the water's edge,
came down the river to look at the wreck There
sound oil rsvelry on the air, even oil Singing
later on IN tue evening when the excursioDs's" re-
turned bomewArd scores oil iUur-norse omnf Uuses
Ieit London Tor The see ne OF the DISASTER Ibe
wrecked portions oil the boat we're crowded win
sigDtseers, many 10 secure relics pieces of
be, articles oil ciotnug, any thing, Indeed,
tina, couie De CARRIED away. AIRY enjoyed himself
hugely River thievcs aoounded. Tue lou living
gioaled III pressure over the c"rrupting dead
BAkBARIANs
Let me give you lev pictures as drawn by London
correspon LII the shoal OF ocxts that dragged
Tor corpses or hung grseoy about The wreck one be-
KIND oil iuth-foui water bros oil Dign,, creeping
AROUND Tor prey ponce Inspector sad, 'AlI me
Sees me .xo,aaatl"n 0 me 0n ps aa aU
kh. thieves have been arrested, anu one,
VINO unetuousiy "ept aud mourned WAS caught in The
hct oi t"isting rug rom dead w>man's Il. ger.
The unnatural VILLAIN wore white Tie and broad
riotu. Hoeous, desraaed beings swarmed
about the spot, silently pushing IN their
hiny ~nsrries, painless, patched snd evli
looking as themselves The water
men nnd the conveying OF sigbtseers 10 the
place oil tue wrecA prOu.aDje that tDsy refuse 10
search Tor corpses or 10 take charge OF tDsm wnen
1ouud For latter service lucy receive hvs snli-
Inns Dods Tor the former nearly much. ana they
carry n score oi ioads 10 ths spot dsIiy." The
tradespeopi oi Tue n,iguUorboou dong roaring
business sucn are a lew paragrrpus 4, 10. ted al
rsDdom Ia me csmetsry al WOolwIcn, where The
bouIes were buried sunday ailsrnoon, sucn scenes
were mol remarked there there was notning but
sorrow and weeping
SERMONS.
Some vi the worth quoting. In the
majority vi sOutn LONDON cnuicuss and ehapels rel
creme, Was mao, 10 the iri.hIui catastrophe the
Psalm &c. lPray er Book vsrson anu g. Ibe REQ or
OF wooiwic h, the Hon. and Rev. A Arson, VINO Took
part IN tue ~oiK AT the watsrsde ngnt oil tue
wreck, preached u sermon on tue SUBJECT sunday
evening al tne psrsn cLurcD s~lsciug ior his toXt
the words oi ne Burial s,rvlce iu IN ds NE
II death" lu tue course oil said
there mad been terrible accidents In the
face vi tbe lana Al SEA, but case, not even
when tue Euyaice SANK VITA al her eompsmcn. out
two had tbefe one WHICH ike this, bat ed
such u,tsr desol Iiou 10 iamcs tie prayed that COD
woulu Uinu the nearts thai were oieeuibg- Human
cobsVation Mas out ol pace IN presence vi such
ov, r~beiming sorrow, sDd tney could out 20 +. 10
the Aimguty "aDL, ~picu ''dveiu what melt Him
good." wnnous Inqu.ring in,o the spiritual coudi-
tion vi the departed III you'd commit then bodies
to The EARN IN the cuartaUie spirh OF the Chucb,
when believed all tniugs nolea all Things WIN
out pIesuu.ins 10 juase OF wnai man could not
know. 4 ths EDsiisu PrssUy terrain CDurc., New
rOau, WVVi~ Gu, Dr AZ preached powerful ser
mon from Marx XII, 35-'i.ke ye hseu, watch ana
prey, sc know when Tue hour 49," lu
cludIng has dis,Vu reveI END gen tisnan
Let iLhabHanis uncover lhei heads bess Iupe-
pass tbrcugn our streets, put w the shutters
hang the signsis vi mourning al oil Woe; honor
these SCARED aud discoiorsd remains. Wno Knows
how many OF incl ere the caskets of souls mat
have Already swept through The gates wasuea IN me
bloOd oI TIE L1mDY Wno Knows how many oil tnem
were OF ths OiOoa royal % hsavenf
sPURGEoN
Mr.. Surgeons sermon 10 Sharply criticised For
his tex. ne TOOK the words oil me Psamist "ho
many waters" Mr. Spurgeon ssid that douotioss the
cslamny Vas sent "nh pal tIcuiar purpose. He De-
htveu n came IRON Goo That came ,no voice of
COD % this city. No doubt thers we're some who
IL this OF tneir sorrow could scarcely think OF
GOc-wnO ball wished peilev- thai COD not
t1efe Even those VINO ioysa and trusted Coo we're
somewhat OF tue NINA Of MARI anu Marina wnen
n tne, efso, LORD, u ,hVS "aas, o'en tnefe my
tbVugbt which ,ui TOD on, Ot any pace, ior II He
wac nOt everywhere lilo was noe anywhere; u lie
ruled DUt iVr evil rest assured that - easy
prove that ne ruled not Tor gooJ. In events such
thai wDicu nad 49, nspyrned, whatever might be
due 10 the rvGklsssness or oven the wicSed-
mes Oi OF man, everything was To DO traced
Coz. TINS aud much more Of the
sort, ssid Mr. Sturgeon. Ar. Sturgeon pointed
place --iuterpO-lt.On not miracu Gus though mar
yeAous m ne resuIts-ior wnicn persons had as ucn
praise cd IL aii the laws OF nature had
been suspended 10 thsir behalf He DeIeved III the
unexpected 10 use paradox, they were Jus.lned Ia
expecting the unexpected, Tor Coo had arrays re-
serve vi mercy 10 bestow upon them. some would
tue manu- Oh God 10 THESE ProvideotIa inter-
posltobs They thought God Bad gone TO sleep, II
wer, leaving me word wOgnu up as watcn 10 20 on
wtuOut him; but experience nsd taught CHRISTIANS
tnat COO wa yet among them. Above ali tuey san
the gracious exposition vi God IN the great OF
the salvstOD O Tue soul Inc nAing nner looked
arOuOd Tor something " lay hold Of Inc priest was
there 10 offer han something Out he Knew nm oil old
LefemVntas but IN bubbles who
trusted them. ibere were some hopes salvation
by standardization aud tue like, tbey woun not
oear the weisht Of such sinner aDd thus began 10
sink, uot even caring 10 struggle against MS iate
wnen suddeuy there appeared ole whose Will pre-
eeaed Tue Will OF mao, whose sovereign grace outran
mans WISHES Tor saivstion and who drew the sinner
OUT Of The many wHter making Ills heart TO sing Tor
Joy.
What all this means / know. Why God
took the trouble 10 pun only loO sinners out oil
the mes instead OF 600, Ar spurscou's pnil-
osopny 10 teacn US Toe Echo Is especially good
It's remarks 1.-THE class Of men who una giDe tuey
penetrate lnto the stery o existence aud expound
without a moments ussitstiOu 'tue ways OF God
mao Que mao VINO saved from the Princess
Alice To- sday ny clutcning the rope thrown
the 49, well Ca tie atriOuted al. 10 hc special
intervt ntiOn Of Provdonce.' There ~, ~ say
least oi Il, indecent esosm 10 sucn random state.
ments Tney smack TOO nucn Of the cx,,loJed doc
trne 10 eternal LIE aud prcdcntnatiOn 70
eternal dBmnaoDs doc riue wuicn trn CTS Dut little
credit on the harrow school oi tbsolosans who at
taught ~ anu rolled II over their tongues ~
a sweet morsei. We nave even 20 Tits day IN
Must remnant OF the bigoted srnoul
Such q doctrine may be comforting 10 tbOse
VINO saved, but IL is lar from comforting
10 those VINO are damned Cannot the gentleman aud
other. vino mink ana cay that they were saved Oy
SPECIAL Providence that the same special PrOvI-
dencs mat saw 4 thtm doomed ten times may to
des ruc.ioDH" According to the tdets oi these ex-
poupuers OF the oOgy tue calamity sent by G. Cd
Tor particular purpose, 10 impress upon our mipds
the en0rmOus extent OF HIS power ev or ior good,