Year: 1872

meetings which are annually held there These meetings have rapidly increased in interest, and the village attempts to keep pace, yet an army of carpenters and build ers seem hardly adequate to the demand for their serylces. The buildings have indeed wide range in elegance, size and style. All manner of structures are there, from the stately Sea View House, almost, we were about to say, down to hen coop.

 Some ways above we said we regarded Oak Bluffs as the most desirable watering place in the country, and this is our reason for the assertion. The people of that place are prepared to care for strangers on the camp-meeting plan; that is, to furnish rooms adapted to the means of almost all classes of society, with degree of elegance in proportion to the price paid, but aU con- fortahle, with all that is needed for tram sient home on the island, allowing the oc- cupants to take their meals wherever they choose. To live there is by no means ex- pensive. What would cost much here, and is to certain extent regarded as luxury, such as the various kinds of sea food. etc., is obtained cheaply there, because there is where that food grows. Fishing smacks come in every night loaded with fish of va rious kinds. etc., fresh from the briny deep, and with these luxuries at a cheap price and comfortable room, the middle class can enjoy short season at one of the most attractive of watering places This is why we think it is the most desirable. Because we all Can go. The rich can live in elegance at the Sea View House, and the middle classes can enjoy the boating, fish, ing and bathing, and live comfortably at ther places, at price they can afford too pay. The Pawnee House is about as de- sirable as any of the rest, as it is kept on the European plan. It is well conducted and has rooms for those who choose to pay much, as we'll as those who want com- fort, but are willing to do away for the time being with quite so much elegance.

 One word as to tue route and we are done. To go there is by no means a diff cult task. After leaving the morning train on the Conn. Western road, at Hartford, and about half an hours rest at the depot, the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill ex- press, which starts from the same depot, will take us to Providence, where an hour is given for dinner, when car in the same depot, labelled g. For New Bedford" will land us within about ten feet of street cars, which will take us to the dock and clear up tN of hoc cfo oh will, after beautiful sail across Buzzard's s bay, land us at Oak Bluffs wharf, where we are within from two to five minutes walk of the principal hotels and houses where we can obtain our rooms. Excursion tickets from Hartford to the Vineyard and return, good until October 1st, paying every expense of transportation, baggage and all, cost $6.75.

 Who cannot afford to go?

 The U7aSo1 Ad0ocate Ag0Sn.-FR1END PEAsE In your last issue appears a very earnest recommendation of newspaper, the Union Advocate" do not wish to begin controversy about it. but you can hardly refuse to answer a call for informa- ton on the subject. ''It endeavors' you write, ''to convince Mir. A., B. or c. of the different religious bodies, that although their ideas of religion are very good. there are modes of other denominations that are in every respect as acceptable in the sight of their Maker"

 Now Gber0lity may be good thing but consistency is a better. What I want to know is, do these prophets of liberal ideas carry out their own principles? There is a denomination, in numbers exceeding all the rest put together,-venerable for antiquity, boosting many learned men and holy wo- men, a pattern of zeal and hard work. With the rest adoring the Triune God and confessing the Lord Jesus Christ as the Saviour of mankind,-I mean the Roman Catholic Church. Will the ''Union Advo- cate" shut the doors of its liberality against this distinguished portion of the Christian world? Will it recommend the Mass ''as 8 mode of worship as acceptable to God as any other?" If not, aohy 7a0t on the principles you SO forcibly lay down? am not (so-called) liberal, and so the question is but one of curiosity to me.

 have always supposed that if Truth be the image and reflection of the Mind and Will of Almighty God, it must of necessity be one. That as two and two cannot be both four aud five, so that differing and conflicting systems could be true alike, but on one of two hypotheses e5tber that there are many Gods with many minds. But this is Polytheism the answer of the Pagan world, and would hardly suspect the ed- itors of the '' Christian Advocate" of this i; or that God cares nothing about the crea- ture, and has not made His will known to us-but this is Deism; the answer of Tom. Paine, who would not think be endorsed by the Advocate"

 Cannot we believe that Truth is a tangi- ble reality in the world, to be sought of all men as the jewel of great price, the one thing needful for the soul? Cannot we believe that the good God will make just allowance for invincible ignorance, and the prejudices of education, and know how scientiously seek him, even if amid the confusions of these latter days they fail to discover the Truth in it's fullness and per lection

 Is not this position as charitable and more rational, than one which kills all real faith, blights all earnestness, and lands us logically and inevitably in universal scepti. cisms

 I suppose you would tell me l ought to sign myself A BIGoT. 1 I've little suspected while penning the item concerning the Union Advocate last week, that we should call forth a reply from a source so eminent, and every way so capable of treating the subject in au able manner from one whom we are fully per suaded is a thorough scholar. and whose chief occupation is the study of theology and for us to now attempt to reply to his learned article, would seem to be the height of presumption, if not regarded by some a' indeed impotence; we, who are nothing . but an editor of little country journal who makes no pretensions to an amount o1 theological learning, above that of the gen