Twenty years among the bulls and bears of Wall street . to a well-laid table, it is touching to see. Hotels, mar-ketmen, bakers, confectioners, and friends generally,jmake liberal contribution to feed the little large enough for a fancy scull on the Hudson,pyramids of candies, and cakes and good things by thehundred weight, dolls, toys, and presents, are abundantgo that each little one bears some gift away. WALL STREET AND THE CLERGY. New York tries a minister more than any othercity. If he has mettle in him, and patience, hewill succeed. Men of marked ability and talent get acall
Twenty years among the bulls and bears of Wall street . to a well-laid table, it is touching to see. Hotels, mar-ketmen, bakers, confectioners, and friends generally,jmake liberal contribution to feed the little large enough for a fancy scull on the Hudson,pyramids of candies, and cakes and good things by thehundred weight, dolls, toys, and presents, are abundantgo that each little one bears some gift away. WALL STREET AND THE CLERGY. New York tries a minister more than any othercity. If he has mettle in him, and patience, hewill succeed. Men of marked ability and talent get acall to New York, and are as completely lost as ifsettled at Sandy Hook. It is a great wonder that anyone well settled will come to the city. A few large,rich congregations are all wTell enough. The greatmass of the churches are poor. To build houses andmaintain public worship cost a great deal. Living ishigh, and ministers are cramped, hedged in, and con-fined. Hundreds of families, who, before they movedto New York, supported and attended public worship,. TOO MUCH SPECULATION. WALL STREET AXD THE CLERGY. do neither after they come. Pew rents are very high,and a man on a small salary, with a small income,might as well attempt to live on Fifth Avenue as toattend a fashionable place of worship. Hosts of personsprofessing to be Christians have no religious home, butfrom year to year drift round from church to church,and pick up their spiritual provender where they canfind it. The population is constantly changing fromthe east side to the west, from the west side to thenorth, from the north to Brooklyn, from Brooklyn tothe country, and from the country back again to NewYork. Many persons are exceedingly liberal in theircontributions to religious objects. The mass care butlittle, and the whole burden falls on a few. The popu-lation fluctuates, and the labor of keeping a city chargetogether is very great. Many pastors have left a large,warm-hearted, liberal people in the country for a ch
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