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Show I All auout a iMei.odeon. The , Methodist society at Fort Ilockaway, Long Island, is threatened with dis-. dis-. ruption because of a difference of opinion as to the morality of iustru-: iustru-: mental church music. A mnjorify of , the meiuberj of the church want a . melodeon; but the trustees, pious , souk, refuse to buy oue, considering such an instrument as a fcort of wooden , horse tilled with all manner of salanic i contrivances. These .trustees arc ' round-headers, puritauieil Pharisees, i of the kind of bcinjjsj described by Byron as expecting to merit heaven by making earth a hell. The asectism , of suoh people is in a great degree rc- spoaible for tho rapid spread of , modernized inlidclity. |