A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . g at the Astor House, the last scion of hisfamily tree, who always marches solemnly out ofchurch before the sermon. He says that he canstand the modern Ja-fiddle-de-de-cob style of sing-ing, which, like all old-fashioned admirers of Corona-tion, Brattle Street, and Mear, I abominate, but he MY SUMMER ACRE 375 does not think thatmore than onepreacher in a gen-eration is quahfiedto go up into thepulpit. Yet no moderncritic of the Man-hattan pulpit canflatter himself thathe is original. In1679 two membersof the
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . g at the Astor House, the last scion of hisfamily tree, who always marches solemnly out ofchurch before the sermon. He says that he canstand the modern Ja-fiddle-de-de-cob style of sing-ing, which, like all old-fashioned admirers of Corona-tion, Brattle Street, and Mear, I abominate, but he MY SUMMER ACRE 375 does not think thatmore than onepreacher in a gen-eration is quahfiedto go up into thepulpit. Yet no moderncritic of the Man-hattan pulpit canflatter himself thathe is original. In1679 two membersof the mystic sect,known as Laba-dists in Holland,made a voyage tothe New Nether-lands to see whatcould be done inthe way of securingproselytes. Themen were no doubtsuf^ciently relig-ious, but like manyother good peoplethey have left it onrecord that theywere cranks of thefirst water. One Sunday they attended the old South Dutch Church inGarden Street, near Exchange Place, where they hearda sermon by Dominie Schaats, from Fort Orange, nowAlbany, and they wrote a criticism that was savage. PULPIT, ST. PAUL S 376 MY SUMMER ACRE enough for the most godless of newspapers. Hehad a defect in the left eye, said the gentle Labadist, and used such strange gestures and language thatI never in all my life heard anything more misera-ble ; we could imagine nothing but that he had beendrinking a little this morning. The next Sundaythese wandering evangelists went to hear the Englishminister, whose services took place after the Dutchchurch was out, and whom they scored young man went into the pulpit and commencedpreaching, the keeper of the journal wrote, whothought he was performing wonders ; but he had alittle book in his hand out of which he read his ser-mon— at which we could not be sufficiently aston-ished. I have heard remarks very much like theforegoing as a modern congregation has dispersed atthe church door. In the journal of their voyagings these wanderingevangelists set f
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