The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-07
A BALL FOR A FUNERAL.
The Queer Means Devised by the Friends
of Murderer to Defray His
Funeral Expenses.
Gods Discernment Between The Righteous
and the Wicked Talmage on
Ecclesiastic Liars.

Special Correspondence of the Evening Light
New YORK, March 1.-The variant Gus
toms and traditions to be met with in New
York and the very heter geneous compost
ton of its population render possible the fire.
quent occurrence of strange things. But
even New York has been shocked by the
queer means devised for defraying the funeral
expenses of murderer under sentence of
death-nothing less than ball. Such ball
came off in this city on Tuesday, to raise
money to pay for handsome wake for
McGloin, who is to be hanged on the 9th of
March. We should probably not have heard
of it if one of the gentlemen who attended it
had not got into a quarrel with the brother of
a girl to whom his attentions were too OBJ
streperous, and tried to Stay him on the way
home. The affair is another sign of the in
creasing Importance as festivals which the
funerals of hanged criminals are gradually as
Stunning among certain class OF our popula-
ton. If criminal has friends with either
money or credit, his interment, instead of
taking place in silence and shame and sorrow,
is made the occasion of grand popular fete,
their best clothes and forget their cares.
McGloin's friends are either very poor, or de-
sire to make his funeral rites unusually SPLEEN
did, or they would not have got up the ball.
1t is hard to say which would best repay
study, the feelings of the dancers who were
preparing for his wake or McGloin's own
feelings when thinking OF the fun his APP
preaching obsequies were furnishing TO the So
ciety in which he once moved.
Preacher Talmage has been pouring hot
shot into the camp of ecClesiastc liars.
Hear him speak as he did with an accompani
ment of smirks and grins, hexions and genu-
hexions, roars and Kisses al the Tabernacle :
Notice ecclesiastical lying" said he; that is,
! falsehoods told for the purpose of advancing
churches and sects, or for the purpose OF de-
pleting them. There is no use in asking
many a Calvinist what an Armenian, believes
for he will be apt to tell you that an Armenian
believes that man can convert himself; or TO
ask the Armenian what the CaviniSt believes,
for he will tell you that the Calvinist believes
| that God made some men just to damn them.
| There is no need Of asking Pedo- Baptist what
| Baptist believes for he will be apt to say that
| the Baptist believes immersion to be positively
| necessary to salvation. 1t is almost impossi-
| bic Tor one denomination of Christians with
out prejudice or misrepresentation to state the
sentiment of an opposing sect. Ii man
hates Presbyterians and you ask him what
| PresbyterianS believe, he will tell you that
they believe that there are infants in hell a
span long. 1t is strange how individual
churches will sometimes make miSStatementS
about other individual churches. 1t is es-
pecaly so in regard to falsehoods told with
reference to prosperous enterprises. AS long
as church is feeble and the singing is dis
cordant, and the minister, through the poverty
Of the church, must 60 with thread-bare coai'
and here and there worShiper sits in the end
ola pew, having all the seat to himself, reli-
gious Sympathizers of other churches will say;
'What PITY But let great day OF pros
perity come and even ministers of the gospel,
who ought to be reoiced at the largeness
and extent of the work, denounCe and misre-
present and falsiiy-starting the suspicion in
regard to themselves that the reason they dc
not like the corn is because ii is not ground
in their own mill. How long before we shall
learn to be far in our religious criticism
The keeneSt iealouseS on earth are church
iealouses. The field of Christian work is Sc
large that there is no need that our hoe han
dies hit. May God extirpate from the world
ecclesiastical lies, commercial lies, meChani'
cal lies, social lies and agricultural lies, and
make every man the world over to speak truth
with his neighbor."
Writing Of Talmage reminds me that the
Rev. Philip Cermond, of the Jane street M. f
church, preached few days ago on "GOd's
discernment between the righteous and the
wicked" taking for his morale the contras
between the lives and funeral ceremonies o.
William f. Dodge and Charles X. Thorne
IT,, the latter the actor, Of whose strange fun
eral wrote you not long since. He said
"The one dies as Christian gentlemen anC
the other dies as the fool dieth. Thorne, y
he said, died laughing at death, as he had
lived, and has been buried amidst laughter. y
The newspaper comment is that William f
Dodge imported pig iron moulded into statues
of Washington, aud thus escaped duties, unit
la lynx eyed revenue officer event for him
and forced him to pay the Government abou
$3oc, 900. BENEDICrUS.
For Alderman.
We are authorized to announce George