Year: 1875

cannot be approached by any financial proposluon
with the hope OF altering the tone OF his petitions and
utterly refuses to move out OF town So the congro
CATION Is driven the wall and has concluded 10 SELL


some churlsh people are beginning 10 say that
Brooklyn has not had tho Lords revival after all but
only Moody and Sankey's The proof is TO be found in
the fact that when Moody and sankey went 10 PhiIa-
deipha although the Lord remained the revival had
attack OF general debility, and lies at the last
Thus do the hopes we had in il touch ground
And dash themselves 20 pieces


Mr. W. j. Bishop has been looking after the interests
OF sprltuasts OF late He has given especial attention
To the little game OF naturalization In which the Eddy
family are adopts and thinks he has discovered the
trap door through which the spirits come and 60. He
insists that without exception these spirits up
and not down. and proposes to tell the public in let
ter with diagrams, how that particular folding door
between the two worlds is worked at 81 a show


Congrcgationalism, as an organized method seems
TO be passing through ordeal. Does II that
every one shall do he peases whether he wants TO
or not or does IL that every shall do rghtY
Is there any tribunal which Is not merely spectral
IS system OF associated loosenessY License is good
thing, and every ought TO have little personal
property but too much OF II constitutes idiousyncrasy
that augurs Ill for the body that INDUCES IT,


The Methodist bishops have had grand gathering
In Boston They were a splendid looking set Of men,
and ought to be proud to belong to a denomination
that is afraid roll its sleeves up and use the
besom In places which mere popularity, with its kid
gloves and gold headed cane never visits The Metho
diss honest folk because they don't where
they 60 If only tney 60 to work.


One of the most remarkable things in the character





not go back on his religion when he went into public
life. He changed his name when he left his boyhood
behind, but when he left the shoemaker's bench he
took his religion with him. Politics and purity don't
often join hands but they intimate terms mot
third erms with each other in the dead and honored
statesmans life.


II all the money in Massachusetts should be dis
trlbued each man, woman and child would have
81, 800 This fact discovered by recent statistics
seems to be poor consolation to those who vanly
waiting for the aforementioned distribution, but who
unable to buy loaf their prospective wealth
unsatisfactory To
the aggregate funds in this imaginative sort ofway and
TO remind the poor man OF what he would have II men
should do what they intend to do. Not even
Micawbcr could wiring smile out Of such prospect
Every week we hear Of the saddest kind OF 'acci-
dentsn IRON unloaded guns Talking about the matter
does good. After this let IL be made criminal
offence to have unoaded gun on ones premises lot
it become the normal condition OF firearms to have at
least cartridge in them and then If we happen TO
make mistake and think 1t loaded when 1t is empty
our thoughtlessness will not result in funeral
1t was certainly very graceful act that OF DR..
Adams, TO invite the theological students TO a recep
ton This contact OF and fragrant age with
early manhood ought TO stir ambition The trouble,
however Is that DR. Adams, who has the respect and
love of whole city behind him. knows SO much that
he knows nothing and IS sweet and humble while the
young gentlemen who sport white cravat for the first
time know little that they know everything Every
graduate of theological school under the impress
sion that all that wanting in the religious world TO
make things absolutely perfect Is his personal
ence but unless he dies Young he wakes up to the sad
conviction that he has been mistaken in the that
though the world is evidently waiting for somebody the
coming mans initials are, unfortunately, not like his



hand once in while even If it does tax their conde
scension to its utmost


York has sulerc cd the refusal of Dr. Sorrs
to accept the call to the Brick church Our sorrow,
however, is some ones else gadness. Richards Storrs
withal O gentleman OF the old school, Always cour-
teous always true and always eloquent he reliable
and conservative force Well, 1t makes little difference
whether it thunders here the river; the air
gets cleared all the same
Mr.. Moody's meetings in Philadelphia are so far
great success That eulogy that could hardly be
4 tomb
haps there more hands to help him now, per
haps if not moro in number they are more ready: or
perhaps the people emotional or perhaps
well anything The fact Is, the revival is satisfied with
itself in our neghbor CITY, while here 1t sank away and
| died of unexplained exhaustion.


At Wellesley College an Episcopalian preached TO the
students, and after the sermon administered the
munon. There were some Baptists present who could
not permit themselves 70 sit at the Lords table with
those not immersed and they therefore in a
rible quandary. They refused to partake, however,
but confess having felt i'll at 1t certainly
nexcusable to put these gentlemen in position where
they really compelled to choose between the Lord
and their denominationa pecularities Water, water
| everywhere, is their motto They must be lneally
descended from the Flood and ought to take peculiar
satisfaction in the fact that their had for
once all the water they wanted There is a record
somewhere that the hereafter there is to be only
table and we are a little curious to know whether tho
Baptists intend TO petition for private room, or
whether they expect to sit down with all the glad
pany II the latter, why not begin now, and u the
the publican which ought to be read before the petition
| is written





funny questions and black broadcloth finds difficult
to answer tho Scotch plaid Tho Bible says that the
poor have the Gospel preached them but the remark
| was intended doubtless, to apply outside the city
limits of New York No, we mistaken; the poor
do have the Gospel preached TO them; but then It's
poor Gospel to suit their The rich have
religion done up in rose leaves, while the poor take h
| home in brown paper bundle. There are not half n
dozen churches IN the city where poor man would
| be welcomed, unless IL be the Catholic churches
That is the only form of religion which has
! no respect for the difference between rags and
4 Professionalism Introduces O
into It's religious system. Ii graduates its clerical
talent TO the financial capacity OF the congregation II
they rich then they be treated to the latest
novelty IN the way of religious eloquence but they
are poor they must take what comes and be satisfied
We have magnificent churches for magnificent people,
and mission churches to remind these tenement house
folk that they made out OF very clay This
Christianity of the pocketbook Of the disastrous
signs OF the times, II indicates human estimate Of
souls which will hardly be ratified up above. The
business man looks on this state OF things and
cudes that all worldness Is not confined TO him. after
! all.


wer it was a delightful Thanksgiving, after all
Even November forgot herself for day and smiled rs
sweety May. All the country the festal board
was spread, aud the boys and girls came to the old
| homestead, bringing their children OF the second and
| third generation We would have liked 10 unroof the
houses of the country and take peep the CONT
mental hilarty which resounded from Atlantic to Pa
cihc. We are constitutionay tired sort Of people,
wearing nervous systems outside overcoats,
and breathing space Of day gives chance to
take sip Of our boyhood, and does good. We are
| apt to joke great deal about Thanksgiving, and
| to say that the chief for giving
thanks is In the TACT tnat we have lived through IT,
ttat we have consumed the cunning but dabohcal
ventons OF the cook and still able pass the un-
dertaker's without premonitive twnge a feeling
that he is looking after us hopefully; but, STILL 1t is
kindly sort OF day. in which meet at the round table
Of family reunion and after while get des-
sert We shake hands with the old folks without
once wondering how the estate will cut up some oay,
not exactly Thanksgiving, and back TO the hurly
burly with slight digestive interruption perhaps but
i with a feeling about the heart on the whole,
like IL, but think onco year is as ofen can
prudently indulge in IT,


ENGLISH EPISCOPAL BIGOTRY.
i To THE EDITOR THE HKRALD;-


Very considerable interest shown by the English
papers in recent in which the Protestant Estab-
ished Church exhibited herself in her coors OF
intolerance. But more recently fine squabble termi-
mating in assault occurred at the grave OF a
deceased judge and still later the rector OF