New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-05
RECOLLECTIONS OF READER.
BY CHARLES II. CONGDON.
RELIGIOUS LIVES AND LOTS.


TIE HOME OF THE NOTWITHSTANDING "iLkiN-
SON THE AMERICAN PRoPHETEss-HER NEW
youK COIoNY-THE REV. LORENZO DOW, HIS
vOrKs AND wANDERiNGS
In my last chapter | spoke OF the DOCKS uI
n particular religious ass0claton-the society
of Friends After | had finished my paper.
co,,id not but remember the deVoten ana SIN
cere members of other religious societies, and
turning 10 my shelves, ! saw many volumes
which told, equally with the fascinating
memoirs of the Quakers (so-calied1, or taith, OF
truth, and of pious sincerity. l do not know
that hike these books the less because USUALLY
they we've plain to begin with. and are now
hardly ever to be picked up, except ID ShHoos
state. Why Is II that the religious ooohs a's
always So plentiful upon our street sI,ls. anu
are sold at such insignificant pricesI mas tne
generation OF those who read mem VIII
avidity raised awayp Have they outiIveo t9eu
fashion even in the churches III WHICH tney
were onco so much admired Did tneI writers
win eternity only at the expense Oh ooiiFloh
on saltnf But these me useless queSllChs'
Some will be still lett, no doubt 10 read lnclh
with sympathetic tenderness IN pardon thelr
;,l;taracv and To find IN them not merely en-
thnsiasrn but n fanth loyal to divine things, II
not learned, and trust Which puts the sccptl-
cism Of our nineteenth century to SHAME. we
WILL ii ;he reader pleaSes, go quite c1isoriy
through one or two OF them, selecting sach as are
the scurcest and most curious
Hardly any reader has forgotten the bleak
and deSoate and solitary parsonage or Ia
worth. IN the West klUln2 OF L o. hSnHC, 'HV
home OF the Rev. My. DrOnte ano ms three Ie-
markable daughters, Charlotte, VINO Wrote
"Jane Eyre" Emily, VINO wroie, w u,heIinE
Heights and Annie, VINO wrote ne tenant
ot Wilafel Hall" In Mrs. Gaskells Lie OF
Charlotte Bronte" there Is some account lSee
vol. L. n. 90 of the Rev. William GflniShaW' VINO
was minister OF HawOrth before MI bIohtc
Not long ago | bought tor 1--we pence III an
extremely begrimed state, the NE OF MI
Grum-haw, written by the Rev. John Newton
the friend of COwper. The minister OF Ia
worth was thoroughly evangelcaI' anu I'D Ia 1'
one of the MethodiSts who were LETT IN tue rs
tablishment by John Wesley. The fasher OF
Method.Sn came sometimes to pieach ior hliu
and so dill Mr.. Whitehead. There was Ut thaU
time In those rem IL regions dcartn Oh 1Ilis-
tan knowledge. The str.Egc, rough lOrhSDlIe
peaslnts locked III great Numbers 20 listen 10
the GLAD tdipgs OF MIR. GTmshaw himself WE
are told that he O1ten Checrtuily walked miles
IN the winter. in storms OF vino, RAM ana
snow upon lonely, unshe!teTed mO0IS, 10 preach
to a small company OF pOoT, a&ed, "ebepIt
people in a cottage These were the mooIS
over which the little feet OF the Bronte girls
aftergard wandered, when they sought out
side the gloom OF the HawoIth PARSONAGE lor
glmp>es of sunshine. Mr. Gpmsha" ni'u
curious wav of leaving the church Whlle the
psalm before sermon was singing, " TO see II any
were absent from worship, aud 1GIIng tholI
time in the ChurChyald, the street, or INC aic-
houses; and "many OF those whom ne so
found he would drive INTO church before hlih'
A friend IF mime SAYS Newton I'D baSSihg
public house in Haworun, on Lords Day
morning saw several persons MAKING tbtlf
escape out OF the lower windows, and some
over A lower nall he was frs alarmed, ie4IIng
that thc house Was on IRE, Out upon h4afiuE
the cause OF the cOnmOllon, lie was t"d that
they saw the palS0n coming. IhcY were more
afraid of their parsOn tiIan u justice OF the
peace" The races at HaWOrth gave nm much
trouble, BECAUSE they brought with them great
deal oil dissipation ~ vi hlN""H Pl5SCu
feTyepty ,het the Lord would be pleased to
stop The sports in HIS own way. Then Tor
three days there came such excessive rams that
the pcopc could mol remain upon the ground
They nsed to say for long time after at Ma
worth that old Grimslaw put stop to the
races by his prayers" John Newton phlOso-
phizes about the matter after THIS lashIoh'
readily allow thar three days oil lnceaSant ram
might have conceded with the time OF The Ha-
worth races, though Mr.. Grlmstaw had never
been born But the inference from 1t might
have b1eu so, to II certainty WOu.u pave peeh
so. is not conclusive OF Mr.. GnmSAaW hit
nilitv. however, Mr.. Newton found sufficient
proof in the fact that tAe lowiy man Cleaned
sometimes the boots OF his guests. l have
given tins little account OF peculiar ana I'M
usual book. because ii may not De unacceDtaOie
10 those who IegaId The lie OF Charlotte
Bronte and Of her sisters aS more romantic
than any hing which they vIJte.
The lite OF Jenlima Wilkinson Is rehgl0u'
history uf quite another cnal acter Inc story Oh
this PrrachereSs OF the Eighteenth Century, as
she Is called uIOA The utie-page, was "lltteh
low David Hudson, and was punished ia
Geneva. OB,aiO County, New oi", III 1871.
The au,hOl Is hy no means an adh'iCI "a
,Iemima, although he leaves tne reader 10 uc-
telmiue from the narrative whether SIZE was
an enthu>I3s st, dciud.T, ana lmpuatof' one
WAS born IN the town oil Cumbetiand Ia FIoVl-
denee County, Rhode Island, III I'J. hei
mother was d meBOeT OF tie SOcl'V or
Friends The zlrl UP 10 the age Oi tWtlt' years
was frivolous III her habits. great reader Oh
novels a}.d rOmance>. at fine personal AMP ar
ance, and fond OF ate nuOn. Suddenly shc
IN, BaNa II.
traorduuUy viSitatIOnS from hey Ond Tue
skies She did what people frequently DO
before they preach new IeilNoh-she went ~
he'd and sine STAYED there. Finally, 10 the great
astonishment of her nurses, after a llght
SIMMER she declared that size had passed the
gates Of death, and was now IlSen rom 'he
dead" She "aIOse irOm lIle-bed, - hcI OlOS-
IapI,eT SAWS saIcastICaily, and HE very next
SUNDAY delivered "a discourse OF "consldeiaDie
flueney,r under tree near tue church. blf;
Hudson says: Her feeble voice, her graceful
gestures her languid cOuntenance, her persua-
siye language, and the soft expression Oh hcr
fine ewes produced q great effect upon her
hearers OF course she at once began the
establishment of IA religion and the organization
of sect, and equally Oh course sue ala h9t
lack for followers. she pretended u WOiK
miracles. She sometimes insisted upon The
Shaker doctrine of cehbacy, and sometimes she
did not She called herself the UNIVERSAL
Friend. She obtained good deal OF money
flom converts, and she kept II, even when they
wanted it back again. Ultimately she de-
nounced marriage altogether, and insisted that
her neOphytes should practically submit 10
divorce After a good deal of PROSECUTING.
especially in Rhode Island, Massachusetts,, and
Pennsylv ania in 1879 she founded colony IN
what is now the town of Torrey, Yates County,
New-York. Naturally she called that part Ct
the country in which she settled "Jelusaem.'
Here She was Lady of the Manor. She made
every one her servant They planted and they
boed for her, and they neglected their own
wheat and bay 20 attend to hers She Affected
great interest in the salvation Of the Indians,
but they seem to have regarded her pretensions
with shrewd contempt Ia her later years
TO the gceat astonishment Of her followers,
actually died They waited fOr her to rise