Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-28
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
| Susanna Wright, who came with her par
| ents from England when but IL, aud ~.
| moved with them from Chester To Wrights
| Ferry (now Columhia), as early rs lI26,
| before this county was established or the city
laid out was a highly endowed woman,
universally houorod and beloved, a poet Of
| genius aud correspondent of rare merit
| She sacrificed mo domestic duty in attaining
| the reputation of being the most literary
| woman of the province, and she took more
| pride in the to yariS of dress silk which she
| turned out of her own nursery Of silk worms
than in the epistolary correspondence which
| has come down To- this generation rs model.
Even the accomplished modern young
| ladies of Columbia might study the example
| of this famous woman of hundred and tifty
| years ago with pride, and pattern after her
| virtues with profit
The published statistics of the American
| province of the Moravian church show that
| in Importance aud numbers the old Bethle-
| hem congregation is far ahead of all others,
with its l,26o communicates and grand total
of l.97n Next comes Salem, y. c., at the
head of the Lutheran district list with SO
| communicates. Next to these are our own
local churches, Lancaster aud l.itin.
The latter reports l02 communicates - non.
commandments, Sn chilircu-tutal GN, an In.
crease ot - during lSst The Lancaster parish
has S2 commandments, - un-commuuiCauts.
and III chiIdrcn-tutal igl an increase of II dur.
ing the year.
~.
What wonderful man George Whitfield
must have been And until Gabriel blows his
trumpet such q voice rs he had will not I've
heard again ON this earth In 1889 he preached
to $1,000 people, ''on Society hill near to the
flag staff" which Watson annals* tell Us was
somewhere about Front and Pine streets,
| Philadelphia. lie shut up dancing schools,
assemblies, and the concert rooms. Only re-
ligious books met with sale and even table
talk took that turn. When he went to ChcS-
ter ON an evangelizing mission $50 hursemeu
rode with him; the people gathered in
crowds of ten thousand to listen to him,
and his sweet and powerful voice could
be heard Tor two miles. When he grew
older he seems to have had misgivings that
| he depended too much on the tricks of the
orator and he rcheCtively said of himself: ~
have carried high sail whilst running through
torrent of popularity and contempt Imay
have mistaken nature for grace Imagination
, for revelation and the fire of my own temper
for the flame of holy zeal and find | have
frequently written and spoken in my own
spirit, when thought was assisted entirely
by God"
; There were others in his day who thought
quite as severely of Whitfield as he has
criticised himself. James Logan called him
, whimsical enthusiast" and though he
admitted his good language, engaging man.
ner and powerful voice, he notes that when
} he "fell foul of Bishop Tillotson and the
= most uneXceptiOnahle author of The Whole
e Duty of Man. the more judicious fell from
him." and it was Mr.. Logan's reflection that,
| " inc
claim some of the dissolute, vet he and some
: of the 'hnt-headed predcstiuarians' 'have
e actually driven divers into despair and som,
into perfect madness. In short, il is apprcs
hended by the more iudcIous that the whole
will end in confusion to the great prejudice
a of the cause of virtue and solid religion-hi,
d doctrine wholly turning the danger o
a good works without such degree of sancti
=, tying faith rs comes up to his gauge
Whittield's wife was peevish and irritable
e woman. She accompanied him on a tou
n through this state. and households wherein
= they were guests still cherish traditions O
h her ugly disposition One can not be excite,
n to- much commiseration for his hen-pecke,
n misery when it was recollected that one
-, when he wrote to gentleman for hi
" daughter-whom he did not get YER
Ie ally-Whitfeld said "You need not b
N afraid of sending me refusal for | bles
le God, il know anything of my own heart
Il world calls iOUC.n
T. Gilbert Tennant was another revivalist /
IL Philadelphia, whose wave of popularity role
in after Whitheld's had been spent II
church was made up OF ''New Light" =
of ceders from the Presbyterians o
vs. High street. and their preacher e
the SObriYHct Of "IIell Fire" Tennant II
preached birthstone and affected good man
odditles-among them putting on a big co;
Z with girdle and putting off a wig-but
al later life he settled down 10 ''sober Christian
T. ty," and confessed that his soul was greve
he with "such enthusiastic foolories and peri
~ Gus igniS Jdtn"s.'
re When the efforts Of Tenants people
,e build Il spire to their church fell short the
,ct resorted to the lottery plan with success
ed The pretensious effort to ape other church,
10 did not escape criticism and it was written
, The PTcSbyteriaus built a church
ly And fain would have It steeple;
as We think it may become the church
:, But not become the people.
!" Tennant once was stOrm-stayed at tavern
e. and while seated at the fire place the ligh
IL ming struck down the chimney and melte
he his silver shoe and knee buckles, withol
10 endangering the life which some Of his pc
~ pie thought was specially protected of Coz
IL ~
sh When the Methodists first preached
Dl- Philadelphia they held forth from the sta
h. house steps and from stands in the RAJ
he fields; and the preachers carried their
ve hrary and wardrobe in saddlebags Cap
,o Webb, British barrack master, who was
-, BOanerges i'll defamation and a one-eye
- officer in military costume" was pulp
~ attraction. Old Benjamin Abbot used
u come over from Salem county, y. j.,
III keep alive the new fire kindled in Phiade
phia and with his shaggy brows, eyes
fire, powerful frame, great voice, ringin
foot tread and trumpet calls to the uncOl
'h verted, saint and sinner recognized thi
when he preached 1.-THE shout of the kin
was in the camp" From the start I'll
-, Methodsts captured the populace with 81
III peTioT and attractive singing.
TO 4" Johnny Hood was the great minstrel
n. that early day, had "never learned one no
al OF gamut music, and yet he never Jared
failed" His sweet and smiling face had
ne charm scarcely second TO his clear and di
ne tinct vocal leadership of the chorus. If
id person gaily dressed, after the foppish fashio
IA of the last century, went To Methodist churcl
~ he was pretty sure to be preached at"
SINDBAD.
=, ANNALS OF Philadelphia aud PCnnsylynnia
III the Olden time. BY John +. Watson. PublishC
tn | by Edwin = stuart, Philadelphia, lssi
pb Death ofa Prisoners Devoted Wife.
nj EN-Cashier James A. Hedden, of a Newar
"a bank, who is serving term in state prison