This clause in the gift created much excitement.

Ministers denounced him from the pulpit and assemblies of the church passed resolutions declaring against the desecration of the Lord's Day.

But the people rose, _en masse_, against this narrow-minded contention and the Council of the city accepted the gift with acclamation.

The sound common sense of my partner was well expressed when he said in reply to a remonstrance by ministers: "It is all very well for you, gentlemen, who work one day in the week and are masters of your time the other six during which you can view the beauties of Nature--all very well for you--but I think it shameful that you should endeavor to shut out from the toiling masses all that is calculated to entertain and instruct them during the only day which you well know they have at their disposal." These same ministers have recently been quarreling in their convention at Pittsburgh upon the subject of instrumental music in churches.

But while they are debating whether it is right to have organs in churches, intelligent people are opening museums, conservatories, and libraries upon the Sabbath; and unless the pulpit soon learns how to meet the real wants of the people in this life (where alone men's duties lie) much better than it is doing at present, these rival claimants for popular favor may soon empty their churches.
Unfortunately Kloman and Phipps soon differed with Miller about the business and forced him out.