Muscular Christianity in Brooklyn.
--Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's church, in Brooklyn, has owned and managed a bowling alley for several years, which is as much an institution of the Church as its weekly prayer meeting. There the pastor and his lay brethren and sisters meet to develop their muscle, with occasional visits from other pastors in the city, whose parishes are not provided with any such means of physical grace. Under the inspiration of Mr. Beecher, and the members of his church, the Young Men's Christian Association, of Brooklyn, are proposing to build a large gymnasium, on the joint stock principle, so arranged as to afford every approved means of physical recreation to both sexes, under regulations as safe for manners and morals as any other social intercourse.
