The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-08-30

INTERESTING LETTER.
Rev. b. F. Boiler breaches to the
SnObs and Dudes at New
p0ft-The Sin Of Water.
ing Places.
BosToN, AUG. "a. 1890.

Boston, AUG. "a. 1890.
Editor Bszoo.
Having been invited during August
to preach to the "sOns of The. Gods"
living at The Hub where 1 now am
end-avoring to recuperate body and
sui. and dIspence the good old gospel
to these needy ones. l thought a sniff
of sea breeze for The BAzoO might be
acceptable.
BEEN TO NEWPORT.
For the last four days l have been
at Newport, X. l., the famous resort
of fashion, salt water and swelldoms,
where l had heen invited to preach at
the Old First Congregational Church,
where l saw 'ncentrated more wealth
and style than 1 have ever witnessed
before. l saw millionaires, members
of the legation at Washington, Dukes.
Lords and ladies. Counts, Marquises.
and last, but not least. the New York
Dude in all his glory and eHervescing
his Anglo Mania. Do not understand
ME that all these classes were repre-
sented at church. though it is quite
the proper caper to attend some fash
ionsble church. If any set of people
ever needed the gospel it certainly is
the heather at our Enlightened"
srruurp prsoPra
While it takes money
to send the gospel to the
heather of Africa, it is the money
that keeps the heather dude away
from the gospel. Dudeism and gos-
pei don't mix very we'll. not even as
we'll as politics and religion.
lean assure you l felt a sort of live
| ly awe, and when standing in the pull
pit once occupied by the great Samuel
Hopkins, who was the first man to lift
his voice against the curse Of slavery,
$50 years ago, when it had become a
grea, commercial traffic among The
people OF mis- congregation, and slaves
were being shipped in as So many
cattle BY the merchant men Of New
port ard bought and sold in the slave
mart of the place.
From that pull it started the wavelet
ever increasing in volume and power,
rolling On as a mighty tide Of public
sentiment and conviction till j. swept
over all the land in the years of 81
and IS, leaving in its awful track the
flow oil beloved aad waste OF treasure
and te ,rs of sorrow.
Newport has many plac 6 of historic
interest to the archsclogist, but Of more
interest to me for its exhibit Of certain
peculiar phases Of human nature. 1t
! is like great volume of lite and bis
tory, On one page of which one Gees
Roman righteousness. lavish expen.
diture and hightone1 esthetic eferm-
NANCY and dissipati IN, and BY the
side of it on the next page an illustrs-
ton of the old.fashioned straight laced
quaint, puritanical conservative who
believes with all the convictions of
his righteous soul. in doing all things
i'm Just exactly the old way, for no
other reason on earth except that they
have always been done in that way.
The native NewporIer believes in
the old because it is old and any such
thing ss q change. however eight fills
him we'll with
HORROR AND TREMBLING.
He is unalterably. Numerically and
eterually opposed to innovation.
One would suppose that the
continual summer stream oil
lsuch a cosmopolitan ard kalaidas
lcopic life as the fashion and wealth Of
la great seaside resort, brings. would,
like mad rushing torrent. wear OF,
loosen and soak out bis antique no
tons and hide bound quaintess. But
lit does not; it only makes him draw
himself all the farther into his self
contained shell. This is true, GO
pecialIy of the elder Newporter
though there is a younger elemen
which believes in and follows 90 fal
las permitted the tide Of worldly
fashion and wealthy aristocracy
Everything here is English and mus
be done in good
OLD ENGLISH STYLE.
It is old England via that Dutch
town, New York, whence came mos
of the summer resorters of Newport
! The coachman must be Englisl
though the cook must be French, AM
, all the other servants, groomsmen
!. footmen, florists. gardeners, kitchen
maids, tablemaids, sewingmaids
chambermaids, lsundres,es, etc.,:
generally about thirty or forty in q
may be Irish, but all Of one colo
, 20 ~ to eat at the same table. 4