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Let ns remain in this Chapel, for awhile, " inviting our souls 

 to loaf," after a style scarce possible elsewhere ; at anything like 

 the same price, and — exemption ! General admission 25 cts., 

 Reserved seats, 35 cts. " Pour out thy heart before th6 Lord !" 

 sang the tenor : and when the congregation insisted that he 

 should continue pouring, — out of the fulness of that heart the 

 mouth spake : — " Annie Laurie "! 



Two evenings later, for fifty cents, in that same School of the 

 Profits, — you could hear, in Greek, all about the " Killing of 

 Laius," from a play compounded in equal parts of Incest and 

 Parricide : or bow your head in the devout meditation, befitting 

 the place and occasion," as you thought of " Uncle Micajah 

 Treat at Slambasket Beach !" 



And yet once more in this Sanctuary ! for that is about the 

 scent of it; — Upon this occasion, a maid sings of "Love's 

 Heaven "; while a quartette blend " mixed voices " in " My heart 

 and hand are thine !" Thereupon ensues a curious concatena- 

 tion. First comes " A Wine Song "; followed by " Above, in 

 her chamber "; when " The Two Grenadiers " succumb to " A 

 Night in Venice." It did not cost much ; and the reporter pro- 

 nounces it " a musical and financial success." 



And now, leaving this patch of holy ground, we will resume 

 our shoes; simply adding that, upon a subsequent occasion, 

 doubtless replete with grace, — " the comic pictures of Frank 

 Lawrence pleased the people "! 



Proceeding South and reaching the Church of the Pious Im- 

 mersion, if a child, in possession of a quarter-dollar, you may 

 enjoy the blessed privilege of listening to the " Famous Tennes- 

 seeans. Jubilee Singers, and Colored Concert Company, in one 

 of their Weird and thrilling Concerts. Miss Pinkie Johnson, 

 the Great Shouting Soprano," will make you wish that your ears, 

 at least, may be " dipped ". 



And so you can continue, from one Exempt to another, — from 

 the Church of the Tri-une God to that House of His at the foot 

 of the Mountain ; and it is the same invariable and mercenary 

 monotone of " miscellaneous concerts ", or " musical entertain- 

 ments ", precisely described, in the Statutes, as " purposes other 

 than religious worship "; and therefore subjecting the " portions 

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