A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . and was followedinto the church by so many of his congregation aspractically to end its existence. Both of Dr. Coxssons became Episcopal clergymen also, and one ofthem is now Bishop of Buffalo. Roe Lockwood, thepublisher, Henry A. Coit, Daniel Lord, and Mr. Ay-mar, the great shipping merchant, were elders andpillars of the flock; but the one of all others whomthe children loved most was Grandma Bethune,mother of the distinguished divine of that name. Inthe closing years of her life she used to gather a classo
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . and was followedinto the church by so many of his congregation aspractically to end its existence. Both of Dr. Coxssons became Episcopal clergymen also, and one ofthem is now Bishop of Buffalo. Roe Lockwood, thepublisher, Henry A. Coit, Daniel Lord, and Mr. Ay-mar, the great shipping merchant, were elders andpillars of the flock; but the one of all others whomthe children loved most was Grandma Bethune,mother of the distinguished divine of that name. Inthe closing years of her life she used to gather a classof forty or fifty children at her home every Sunday,and we were all eager to go and sit at the feet of thedear old lady. The late Charles F. Briggs, well known in journalismyears ago, and the Harry Franco of the past genera-tion of novelists, used to attend Laight Street Churchvery often, and in the congregation were a bevy of hispretty cousins, daughters of a famous ship-owner ofthat day—one of the Marshalls. It was long beforethe dawn of aesthetic taste; art was looked upon in. A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 15 solid commercial circles as the luxury of idle hours,and the profession of artist as a mere excuse for lazi-ness. No merchant would have dreamed of allowinghis daughter to marry a painter. Yet a young art-ist had dared to avow his love to the prettiest of theabove-named bevy of young girls, and she had boldlyventured to say that she loved him in return and in-tended to marry him. Society was shocked. It mat-tered not that the young man had talent (and, indeed,eventually he made a name for himself that all de-lighted to honor); society drew the line at artists, anddid not recognize them as eligible. One day, as entered the house, the entire chorus of itswomen threw^ themselves upon him and begged himto remonstrate with Emily and save the family honor. The family honor, said Briggs, with the gruffness heassumed on such occasions, and that was only relievedby a telltal
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