The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-10-03

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OUR LETTER FROM BROADBRlM.
Reopening Of the Churches-The Big Guns
Of the Pulpit Back Again-Tale of II Dog
A Gang Of Dynamite Fiends Undone-
The Great Yacht Race-Business Notes.
5..-.. New YORK, Sept. 81, 1885.
EIToR CE1T:kE liE
Once more churches are open, and last
Sunday seemed like q congregational pic
mic, and l wish it distinctly understood that
this 10 not Intended for joke. In every
church there was a general shaking of
hands. The minister had got through his
two months'Rvacation and looking back he
could scarcely realize that it more than a
couple Of weeks. notice that the high
priced ministers are the last to come in.
III Brooklyn, Dr.. Storrs, Mr.. Beecher and
DR.. Cuyler have not yet put i'm an appear
ance. Supposing Mr.. Beecher to preach
every Sunday-which he does not-he re-
ceives for eve.y Sabbath in the year $500.
A Western ;.adience think they are giving
Mr. Beechhr an enOrm Gus sum when he re-
ceives for lecture $3.50 and yet Plymouth
church is willing to pay him $500 day,
year in and year out, and think they are
making money at that, or at least laying
up treasures in that bank where the moth
doth not consume nor thieves break in and
steal. Doctor Talmage gets $4,000 and
DR.. Cuyler $4,000 year, so that two
months vacation to these gentlemen means
a very nice sum in hard cash; besides
paying the itinerant clergymen who are
called on to fill their pulpits. There seems
to be very great disparity between the
original and the itinerant representative.
Mr.. Talmage receives $500 for each Sunday
but the gentleman who represents him is
thought we'll paid if he gets $25, with lodg-
ing over night, his breakfast, dinner and
car fare. In consequence of the absence of
these three great lights, the pews in their
churches were not as full as they will be
in couple of weeks from this time.
Mr.. Halliday, who is Mr.. Beecher's assis-
tant, and whose special business it is to
visit the sick and make congregational calls,
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mouth Pastor, has lately been exchanging
pulpits with the pastor of the Sands Street
Methodist Church, the point of which is
this: the Sands Street Methodist Church is
oneof the oldest, most respectable and
most strictly orthodox Methodist Churches
| in the city of Brooklyn. Now, Mr.. Halliday
is the representative of Mr.. Beecher ano
Mr.. Beecher's last sermon was on evolution
and in that ser mon Mr.. Beecher declared
his unalterable unbelief in Sheol, where the
worm dieth not and the fire is otquenched
Can it be possible that Methodism is drift
ing away from it's sheet anchors? We viii
wait till the regular pastor gets back before
pronouncing decision.
The new Catholic. Cathedral, the bart
foundations Of which have stood unfinished
for twelve years, is now to be hurried t.
completion. The cost of this magniffcen
structure it will be difficult to compute, bu
it will be among the millions, as it is in
tended to make it one of the finest cathe
drals in the United States. When Bishop
Loughlin first presided In Brooklyn ther'
were six or seven Catholic churches; ant
now there are nearly forty, all fourishing
and there is hardly church in tie city tina
can contain its congregation. It is only b!
two or three duplicate services that tn
Catholics Of the different parishes are abl
to gain admission to their churches.
Brother Talmage was met on the steame
by large delegation of his flock, the fatte'
calf was slain and the pastor was toasted IL
ainger-pop, lemonade and vinegar bitters
land every member Of the congregation wen
home after the fun was over, slightly ex
hilarated by the coffee and donghnuts, bu
able to; walk crack without wavering. an
all declaring that they had had mos
royal time.
In Brooklyn, where they have SO man
good things, lives an ancient lady some