The Press., 1890-01-30
A NEW YORKER ON BOSTON.

\ NEW YORKER ON BOSTON.
 Hon. Chauncey B. Ripley tells fin the University Mirror of his hunt in Boston after an unorthodox sermon
 Boston is the hub of New England, and Bostonians think it the hub of creation. It is now city of half milllen inhabit- ants, and it's citizens are justified in claim ing for it some sort of hubship. Boston Is distinguished in many ways. First of all, for baked beans and brown bread. In these specialtles it has no peer, and proba- bly, will always retain first place in those domestic arts. Baked beans and brown bread go for 8 good deal. If you, MT. Editor-in-O Chief, or any other member of the celebrated class of 90, is prospecting ln the Fem. Sem" and you find lady there. all other things belng equal. who can make brown bread and bake beans c t0 Boston, you may safely regard those accomplishments as an equivalent for the fifth and sixth books of Euclid and the last half of 8 course in water colors. Bos- ton IS disting uished, and will doubtless ever be, for Bunker Hill monument It Is distinguished for swell bay windows, and has miles of them, especially on Bea- con street and other localities Ill the new part of the city. It is, at present, distin- unguished for Ia grippe, where caught 1t and where nearly half the people were prostrated with 1t, having 1t bad, too. This inhuenza is my best excuse for mak- tug the present letter short.
 I arrived in Boston Sunday morning, December 22d. Sunday IS dies non, Ill the ministry. l resolved after breakfast at my hotel, the Parker House, to attend a first class Unitarian church, place 1 had never yet been. expect to be dlsci- plined by my pastor, Rev. N. w. Caldwell, for such an unorthodox resolution and the pursuit of 1t as given below. went early to the Memorial Chapel, erected by the friends of the high priest of that ''lsm, the late Theodore Parker, who once refer red to the emblems of our chief sacrament ss Bakers bread and grocer's wine. !" The Memorial Chapel found closed at 1O} 6. m., with 8 huge placard at the en- trance, written with a paint brush, "No admittance till 21 p. m., when lecture will be given by Mir. - lsome one un- known to fame and whose name I do not now recall. Admission fee, five cents. " I crossed Fremont street, entered an orth- odox church, I think 1t was Baptist, and was there cordially invited by an usher to occupy seat confessed to him how had been left at the Memorial Chapel across the way, and declared my desire still to attend first-class Unitarian ser vice. He would be glad to retain me there In their church, he said, but kindly point ed out The Church of the Disciples, where, he expressed the belief, could bear an able discourse. Thither went and heard such discourse as the hospitable usher had predicted. I reached The Church oi the Disciples just after the discourse had been entered upon. The regular ''minis- ter," Charles G. Ames, was speaking, and, as had reason to believe, his discourse was founded op the New Testament scrip. ture ''For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ, '' John l, I'D. MT. Ames succeeds the late James Freeman Clarke, D. D., for many years minister of this church 1; and a framed portrait of that voluminous writer, the author of "Ten Great Religions, was conspicuous as the only work of art among the Christmas eyergreens which abounded around the desk of the speaker. The dis course of MT. Ames was able, as I have in- t1mated above, and, except as to its uni ! rarian doctrine, was good enough, extra ordinarily instructive, sound, and whole. some. It was quite pronounced d Ill the particular doctrine of his church. The speaker seemed to fear that some one might suspect he was unsound in that doc
 trlne, and so there was need of frequent declaration in its favor. He spoke very well of Jesus, ds man, often repeating | the qualifying phase, as c man, and in other ways emphasizing the tenet of the creed. As spt cimen of hls utterapc ce, | t,o ooi1 StMnSoo cra n fha dpOa lnnnts Py Pythagoras gave us the multiplication ta bic; Euclid gave us geometry; Newton gave us philosophy Washington gave ue all improved republican form of govern ment Edison gave US electric light, and Jesus gave us improved christianity" Tn. speaker would be understood that chrls 1 tianity existed, though not co 7aomine, long before the advent of Jesus Christ, just as republics existed before the ad, on, of w ashington. The church was well hll. ed. The audience was much above tht average 1n intelligence, in culture, and in social position. The society seemed ID earnest, and even zealous. Especlally the female portion evidently had their princl
 ples terribly fixed. They were apparently us set in their way as General Jackson is reputed to have been. They had strong l faces and features. Their hair was not uanged, as rule, and many of them wore spectacles, and generally the kind with bows. If any man reckons on the ladies of The Church of the Disciples as plastic, he will make one of the greatest mistakes of his life. Long before went to college, I used to hear little song of which quote this line: "The Boston girls have pretty faces" Not those who at present attend The Church of the Disciples, by g jug full. If there is any truth in the DO
 etry quoted above, can safely say this
 Other changes have occurred as well as il
 the seasons, or else The Church of the Disciples does not afford fair specimen
 of Boston's female beauties. My observa
 tions at that church are some evidence il
 support of the celebrated declaration o
 our Rev. Dr. Robert Lowery, '54, to wit
 That Lewisburg is the first place in crea
 tion for pretty women. The doctor vii
 never forsake his alma naater to go ove
 to Harvard. on that score. The Nestor O