The Scourge of Small Cords Called For.
“EUSEBIUS” of the New York Observer was not wide of the mark when he wrote some months since: “Now that our churches are painted and decorated more gaily, even than the theaters, and the quartette of artistic performers are elevated to the most conspicuous place in the gaze of the congregation, and the style of music made to correspond, it appears to me that if the Master should come again to our world and enter one of our fashionable churches, of which there are so many of every name, he would use his scourge of small cords and say to those who are called to conduct the worship of the sanctuary, in some such words as these: ‘Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an opera-house.’”