The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-12-24
GLrMpsEs OF NEW YORK.

8 nave Decn ashcu w "'-s
soont Of what saw and heard during
my three months stay in New YORK. /
That would take life-time and the
pen of genius. Who. in go short
space. could paint the iyid scenes 81 the
wonderful little Island with its COM
pressed mass of humanity working
like an ant bed and manifesting at
once the extreme heighths OF intellect
force and he extreme depth OF moral
pollntionp To be convinced OF Its
brainy and commercial manifestations
you need but look down in imagina-
tion OH this greac city, and see the cars
go laundering in from every part OF
the continent and the ships sailing In
to her ports from every part OF the
worlds seas. Glance at the thousands
of wires threading their way from
house to house, from street to street
in a.perfect network, along which are
flashing the telegraph and the sound
of the human voice. Listen to the
hum of her factories and the roar OF
her elevated railroads; the rumbling
of the carriages and wagons as they
rattle over the stony streets; see the
massive buildings, reaching skyward
with one object. to save space-as
space is the most costly of all things
there see the institutions of learning;
see the ingenuity displayed on every
hand. in every trade and in every pro-
fession; observe the wonderful system
by which this infinite work can alone
be governed see the rapid walk. the
nervous movements and the quick
chances which bespeak the over-taxed
brain and nervous system.
intellectually, there is the movin
4 principle, and its effect is felt sensibly
indeed all over this Union,
Now short glance at its morality
We look into its low theatres and SCI
plays of the yilest character, and wo
men so indecently dressed tor womel
undressed), that it would bring blus
/ of shame to any but New Yorker
and we look down on more than te
1 thousand saloons and gambling bells
whose daily and nightly occupation
to rob and ruin the young and yirtuou'
: to debauch the body and ruin til
soul When this becomes man
!, daily business he is getting pretty low
= l don't despise the man, but | woul
:. hate to walk up to the judgment b;
i. with bis account in my hand. An
n now, late at night we look down {
l. the thousands of poor lost women Ii
o. orally thronging the streets, willir
le to sell body and soul for money enous
to buy their bread. We glance in
the dens of vice and shame and we a
10 ready to exclaim in horror. This pla
= must be the very cess-pool OF h
: ITSELF" and SO it is.
!, Ny real object in going to Ne
20 York was to attend coui
III of lectures at the American
N stitute of Phrenology, but ha
ch no intention to speak Of that now, I
- may do SO in the near future. WI
m- most interested me, after Phrenolo.
: was the religious views Of the Peep
% Whatever -cfsc rfrr New rurKers m
"A be, they are progressive, and they
rst lieve in progressive religion as tn
CIV oughly as they believe in progress
mt mercantile life. They accept comm
ay sense as their creed and say, 'Th
its things in the bible which accord w
raj common sense we accept; those WI
ca do not. we reject. If the New 70
preacher were called down here
nj some of the old conservative churcl
we the'd kick him out at the back d,
NC before he got through his first serm
Eve heard the most prominent minis
M of New York, Grew. Thos.. H. Dix,
OF of the Esd street Baptist Church)
'ef to his congregation: '.Bretheren,
- all been hearing all your life OF an ct
nal hell and want to stand mp
..o fore you like man this morning |
ers tell You that don't believe wore
'he it." He says: when | first ente
shy the ministry (about six years ago
APP young man came to me and $;
te,s Dixon, do you beliye IN eternal
,ar fire?' Why certainly says |. W.
he says. If your doctrine is true,
mother is in hell My mother '
Ion was to me all that was pure and g
S., and holy according to your belize
cen in hell to-day. and SO help me God
ed. going there to meet herr "An
bile says the preacher, Il turned
,ort walked into the next room and | {
: to myself 1 don't believe word Of
and don't believe a word of it
% either! and I'm not by myself,
his three-fourths Of the ministry OF
his n;t, baf;ava ;nst "a + do They