Show NEW YORK MORALS in a correspondence to the chicago chiea chlea go tribune dated at boston by til romo homo 11 of startling truths res respecting pectin 9 the condition conditional al affairs in new york city are very plainly told according to this statement new york is a great maelstrom of vice and infidelity a modern gomorrah where self andul gence and emasculated religion bolf reign he is exceedingly severe inthe ministers calling them by name and holding up their defects to public gaze respecting Bee beecher cherr chere who preaches in brooklyn he til thinks inks that ciflie if he could pass pasa his nights for awhile watching through the streets with the leprous victim victims S af sin he might be seized with a grand grim earnestness and be able to utter the soundest truths in a terrible honesty of clear conviction inston instead d of thia thib j he puts hlas hias pul oui into a novel and sells the novel for thirty thousand dollars to the ledger about theodore tilton the editor of the indea independent en dent i he remarks instead of dealing great blows at the falseness and vice of the age through the clear utterances of honest religious condic eions mr tilton fills his stage with sham orthodox orthodoxies ies in the rear aboin angin and in the front represents good sentiments and politics dr chapin he be adds has never broken out of the limits of well weli paid duty he ire has sold sermons and lectures as beecher and all the rest do never has be tie prea preached thed the gospel to th the I 1 poor dr adams the presby presbyterian terian terlan preacher comes in for his share also he says under the tho richly decorated ceiling madison avenue you may even see lust in clean generously upon the smiling parson we improve improve 3 upon the method of paul who made me men n tremble tromble we wo charm them thorn with the tho agreeable manners and fine though cheap of our scented and gloved glove d apostles what the tho episcopal Obi ool churches are as a ruie rule in respect of speaking directly and with force to the people need seed not be told in new now york they are little better bettor than religious theaters it is the thing with all fashionable people to attend an episcopal church and the widespread wide spread of ol unreality and formalism in leir reli religion gion glon builds up these churches amazingly they are thronged thronged thron ged ged by jy young men whole whose god is enthroned enthrone in the organ loft if in fact they tiley look loob fol foi a divinity any further than to the gay gi girl rl in in the next pew pow these are unpalatable and stinging words and none the less because they are true while the preachers seek for popularity and value the praise of the world higher than they do mens souls and iho the approval of heaven the evils of which he complains will not disappear while ministers are dependent upon their cd congregations for a salary it is not likely they are going to endanger its continuance by finding fault with them or reproving them their aim alm m is 13 to tickle their ears to flatter them to add their eloquence to the other influences which operate upon them that make them believe they are secure and are oa ox the highroad high road to heaven the T 10 devil never invented a better plan piari to delude mankind and to make them his willing victims than he did when he put pub it into their hearts to have a hireling ministry such a ministry will lead any community that fosters it by a short and easy path to destruction jesus taught his hia disciples a different plan they were to be dependent on ou god alone they were to trust in him for the supply cr c IF their wants speaking about tray trav traveling eling in the city passenger as cars he says the conductor will push you inside and ram you down front but inside you sou will not stay long if you are at all sensitive as t to 0 who blows his breath in your face it seems as if every sixth man were rotten within and jt it were impossible to stand in a close crowd without having your nose held to the mouth of a stinkpot stink pot he continues the wickedness of new york no one ono pretends to deny it is a city of moral ilith and spiritual decay you yon learn that a fine house in a good location is isto to iet let at nt a 11 very low rent 1 cpr pr the simple simpie reason that next door is a brothel new york is horrible in the indulgence of the basest of appetites tens of thousands of men go that road alone in the company of women to whom dress and pleasure mean corruption the aristocracy of new now york is not an aristocracy of wealth but of self indulgence the ambition of the young bloods is not to have plenty of money but to riot with money maney or without in gilded sinks of iniquity and nd these gentlemen of the metropolis whose i blood grows fouler every day are as well weil pleased leased with themselves as the proudest lords fords lords of the proudest aristocracy in the world nowhere can you see faces baser basor basor baser and more insolent than you may see in fifth avenue the unceasing scramble for gain and nd horrid squabble of half mad sc ramblers fill the whole stage of life in new york selfishness is the law and success the gospel of the millions whose noise fills the day hero as it were with the groan of an oarth domon nobody cares nobody hears if any voice is raised but tho the voice volee of the market and the song of or pleasure it is aitho fee feeling liag of plen plea pleasure surd that we publish ese extracts they can only give pain because every man who reads them and has any acquaintance with new york cannot but acknowledge that they are tog top true yet who gives himself any concern about the condition of society irr in that city it is holy pure and true in la the eyes of its ministers and if it they could they would have all pattern after her A crusade against utah to regulate her institutions and to bring her morals to the standard of new york would suit a certain limited but noisy class in the country 1 but while they are exercised about hgo iso clety of which they know nothing and of the good order and purify purly of which cv they have no conception a condition of things I 1 stich such as is described by homo Is suffered red to exise exist and to bear its dreadful fruits unchecked in the metropolitan city of the nation surely burely hypocrisy and sham can receive no more severe commentary than this |