Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-22
court is advised that the complaint is insufficient. Reasons by Pardee, Park c. J.

court is advised that the complaint is insufficient 1 Reasons by Pardee, Park c. J.
 Hartford, Feb 19, 1886.
 The decision is in favor of the defendant
 and restraints the plaintiff from condem ming
 and taking lands of the defendant as desired l to extend the cemetery.
 l Edmund B. James, who was taken to Hartford, Friday, to be tried for an assault
 with intent to kill Nellie Kelley of that city, was tried on Saturday and bound over to the l Superior court in bonds of $500.
 1 Attorney Charles s. Hamilton has brought | eight suits pursuant to the order of the Su- | perior court returnable before the civil side of the City court next month against eight | parties holding policies against the Ameri- can National Life and Trust company, of which Talcott H. Russell is receiver. Attor- ney Hamilton has factorized Receiver Rus sell pending the disposition of the suits. A Fault in American Protestantisna. MT. Oscar Fay Adams, who describes him self in the course of his article as an Episco- palian, writes very earnestly and emphati- cally in the last number of the North Amer ican Review of the 'EAristocratic Drift of American Professionalism"
 The subject he treats is which has at tracted serious attention of late in many Protestant quarters, where the fact that there is widening gulf between Protest antism and the great mass of the poor and humble of American society is acknowl- edged and deplored. In the early days of the republic the Baptists and Methodists were the churches of the people, and their exhorters, preaching from stumps at camp meetings, filled the Union with the fire of religious zeal. Their houses of worship were plain, almost barn-like edifces, and the conduct of their services was marked by simplicity which won the hearts of the common people, who took part in them equal members of a Christian family, caring less for method and what church men now call "decent order" than to give spontaneous expression to their religious emotions. But now all that is changed ex- cept in some outlying settlements, or here and there in a very humble temple in town.
 The old meeting houses have been 1e placed by ornate churches, in which, as Mr. Adams says, ''the wearers of gay clothing and gold rings seem to be in the majority" whereas once the preachers de- nounced all gay attire as unbeftting faith ful follower of the lowly Jesus. Instead of the pious ejaculations with which formerly the worshippers interspersed prayers and sermons, and which enabled them to give vent to their overfowing religious feeling, all
 is formality, and the man who shouted out an amen, except in the sappointed place, would provoke frowns ill any well-ordered church, even if he was not actually request ed to retire as an impolite disturber of the decorum of the place. The well-dressed congregation rustic up the aisles and take seats in pews which are their own by right of purchase, and the poor, if they come at all, creep into the hindmost seats or mount into the galleries to occupy a section set apart for them especially.
 ''Rut'' in the words of MT. Adams, ''the plain, nnfashionable people would not feel clothing'' Accordingly mission churches are provided for the poor alone, and the class distinctions in the family of Christ are made all the more emphatic. The rich saints worship in elegant temples on Fifth avenue and listen to the eloquence of highly paid preachers, while the humble throng are in vited by themselves into modest conventicles on First avenue Avenue A. Even in small towns and villages social position is commonly governed by the church family attends. In certain village in western New York, where MT. Adams once lived, the fashionable churches were the Episcopal and Presbyterian, and the Methodists and Bap- lists were socially ignored, with the excep- ton of one Baptist family, and it was com mon saying that Git must be very trying for the B--s to attend the Baptist church. D ''In the majority of cases" says MT. Adams, "social ostracism awaits the man woman who belongs to either of these respectable bodies''-the Baptists and Methodists More over, if there are two Baptist or two Metho- dist churches ill q town, one or the other is sure to be the more exclusive.
 ''The whole fabric of American Protest antism," MT. Adams concludes, 'is in- wrought with the notion that class distinc- tions must exist, must be intensified, in fact, in the houses it erects to the worship of a divine being who is supposed to care nothing for such distinctions, and whose son, when on earth, consorted with fishermen and the flower classes generally in preference to the company of nice people," Of course there are exceptions, and some very marked and very honorable ones, in the communion to which MT. Adams himself belongs, but who can deny the general truth of what he saysa Is it not a fact that the curse of the Protest ant churches, and more especially those at tended by the prosperous, is their downright snobbishness? Are they not driving the poor away and sending them into infdelity or into the arms of the Church of Romea
 Undoubtedly there is truth in this, and it is even true of Baptist and Methodist church es whose members have been successful in the world. The unfashionable, those who are not smartly dressed, the poor and the humble, do not feel at home in them, but look on such temples religious clubs in tended for the rich especially.
 "Woe unto that faith,' we eXclaim with AIr Adams, 'Fthat has no care for the feeble folk for whom Christ died, and unto American Professionalism because of it's pride, it's hardness of heart, it's civilized heathen- ism,' that wears the mask of Christianity and crucifes afresh the master it assumes to adore!n
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