1870-02-14-New York Herald-The Churches Yesterday

The Churches Yesterday

New York Herald, 14 February 1870, p. 6.

The Churches Yesterday

The God of Christianity and the Goddess of Fashion had their weekly contrast at the aristocratic churches yesterday. Rustling silks and waving plumes, immaculate kid gloves and eye-glasses, and the other things needed by church-going upper-tendom, from the daintily covered prayer book, with its golden clasp, to the five hundred dollar lace handkerchief, absorbed no small part of attention, if, indeed, these did not throw the preachers completely into the shade. …

… At Grace church Rev. Mr. Foote, of Utah, beguiled the time of his aristocratic brothers and sisters with an account of the religion of the Mormon Saints, and with an appeal for ten thousand dollars with which to build an Episcopal church in Salt Lake, and help to raise the benighted Mormon females to a proper rank of womanhood. …