Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-10-13
Pho apIrltuoi ana AFatorlal.

Glen" The Louisville Journal speaks OF it IN
tile highest Terms gives us some extracts nom H.
and saws AT Is conceived Ia the true spirit OF the
axe, and rouses The AaggIng soul like Tie clear
tones of trumpet, Iand though il may not meet
the entire approval Of many readers 1t must eS'
tort tribute Of secret sympathy fIOm every heart
n ispuTe, fearless, vigorous and TeiEeshing--iull
Of wisdom, speculation, aud full Of beauty"
The following Is conceived in that fine spirit Of
humanity Of which the authoTess is herself 80
beautiful an eIsmplor,
Would men and women treat each other more
repsrsntlv, there would be less u evil In the
world. The SiHS, epsn, Of CONAN, tOks tlelfTise
| i'm holy fountain, Msn do not know how DnoIed-
ly a womons affections should be treated, how
dveply, in spite of wrong dong, she honoEs and
woTshIps tile sentiment Of chastity. The poor
Magdaien, spuIned, outraged, and scOTned' holds
YET in the depths Of her being the memory OF her
days Of beauty, Ter hly iimee, and SHE seeks TO
forget them In the coarse IeVul aud the wine coup.
Could woman remember this, that deep IN The
heart Of her miserable sister is The angel OF the
lily, she would cast plying mantle over her
fEailueS, and help her gently 10 the light. Woman
must uphold woman. All The machinery Of re-
form Is idle and ineffective but when The true,
pure, loving heart OF great, nOble wOmanhnOd
will cease 10 be. Women must do tie work them.
selves They must learn to uphold each other, 10
bu loyal to each other, and then we uTe elnancI-
pnttd.
lIeEeis, perhaps, the most acute aud suggestive
passage in the work, Whatever may be thought
of lis orthodoxy, nons will deny It's exceeding
felicity aud pOwer
"Words are Of little moment, EiInesI. II seems
10 me we lteIalEe and mateTlallEe quite too much,
The orthodox Jew looked lot Messiah seated
upon an external throne, Literally he had right
from the woIdS Of prophecy and The aspect OF
tradition, 10 expect thsj but the modern orthodox
Christian rejects this view Of the ancient people,
and yet ohugs 10 a belief In an external flow Of
blood, and literal Cross, Us the means Of saliva
ton. May not this, too, be abandoned, and u
more spiritual import, higher insight be acquitted
in this alsol May not redemption from evil BIZ
reached by man through the hereditary transmits.
sion OF what is best in tue nature Of our hulnani.
tyl and thus may not be even literally True TINT
we are redeemed through the flowing Ol Dloodi
Then. also, az 10 the doctrine III the CTIss; do
we yet understand LIS true Internal senssl Why
eli Iuld the Cross DO one Of agOnyl Why moi Tnth.
eT one OF glory aud OF tEiumph-the surrender in
the individual Of the mere gEoyelhng to the high.
eT Attributed
"The Cross 1.-THE symbol Of our humanity, Just
as the circle Is the symbol Of The universe. LuUk
otit-there Is the hoIlEontal--iIe upright. The
human being spreads Out his arms, and behold he
forms lie Cross. Look al the suakeI he undu-
lates level with the earth lie hos neither aims,
nor wings, nor essto Iass himself iTOui his prone
condition. He bites the eanh-he lioks The dust,
he G6SOrbs ito juices aHdgsnerdisS lie POiSOnS, HIS
voice Is eddeneelsSO, Just the lowest and haIseSl
remove from WiieI silence. he gides In and out,
aud threads his subtle way nOssessly, searching.
ly, purPOsely aud all lOilhOnt an angle. tleis the
approximation Of vital malteIj the material VI
material wisdom; the living luvaslTenm VI gold.
fascination, but not lone. He is the embodiment
Of material beauty, that Lures aud Iuscinates-thnt
tires the sense aud deadens tue soul. He IS the
god oil the material, whose will cOncenteTS in him.
sell; and, one and all, lie is the devil.
"Now the serpent this god Of the material, Is
simply VertebGa. Take this VeTltbIa PRONE IL
tue earth, THIS horizontal line Of The setPsnt and
place the perpendicular 10 IL, which is tue VeT.
Zebra Ol man, and you have tie image Of the
Cross. You have the shape Of a mana god Il
you will. Thus when the EgyPuam-nuItured Mo-
SEES lifted up the serpent, he sYmbOliZed the llting
IupOI the spiritual over the material. He showed
/ by an outward sign, whose import he could bul
shadow forth, that the upright or spiritual man
must lie lifted, and must cross Tie prone, material
man, who lickstle dust Of the lower senses.
"The horizontal VeTtebTn is SeTpen the per.
i HendCulnT VeTtebIu man; aud here is the tue
Gloss, and thus in the One hOiiEBt and ,lgpsIieS
were oil these things exhibited as an OutwnTd
sign. We have the ugony nj the sweat, Os il
were, Of great drops Vi blood, in our suffering
humanity we have the feet that SPUN Tie lori.
ZOnla eaI!h, the hands that gEHsps for The eternal
triumphant LOod-penetTaled also with the an
guish OF the nails That would fuSlen us TO the
present and sensuOus. We have the dying thirst lO
living waters, the presented gall aud vinegar Of
worldly disappointment I'LL Tie very god within
us cries to Tie unseen. "My Coil my God!'
No wonder thought, that our people listen Il
this woman Os IL prophet. True OF not true
she ulteTS her deep conviction with the reverence
vi inspIalIonI aud thousands must and will be
lieVe her.
Bertha went on. "NaluEe herself abhors the
PLAIN, and SHE gives us the mountain, which is tht
Gloss TO il. Man, uso, in his lngllet OFT, aims Il
raise structures that shall counenct the horizon
tai, aud he filings tie beautiful arch to span Ilvel
and valley; the heavenly dome upTSeS; tie tape
OGelsk p inls fnger upwOFd, and the stately
tower bTeuks the line Of vision with balllemen
and turTelj while far back IN the HgeS the infant
lnan projected the pyramid TO be like the eveIlaSt
lug hills, Gloss 10 tile plain"
"But BeTth0," Sald, "you n:e taking away
all the dOgmas Of the PulPlt-you will leave vi
nothing 10 eXpOund."
Glove, eternal goodneSs--the life and saying
Of Him who represented 10 his Own great, beau,
lilul life the ultimate 10 which our teachings tend
surely, Ernest, subjects like these are exhaust.
less, The tue believer does not ask creed, bul
only for those instructions Of truth which will
strengthen, and ennoble, and beauty the lile.-
Tell me, Ernest, are we moi sticking lOT JOTIHS
when we should rather seek for llghl DO we
not uphold conventional virtue, when the soul OIL
luinie and divine purity is hidden from uSl ATE
we not aS literal aud OS gross aS the Jewl And Dc
we not Persscute, rail Of, and abuse those who
jet the common faith as cruelty and vlndiCtiVell
as they"
THE. DANGER OF SLEEPING IN CHVRcM.-The
Portland Electric relates the following;
can old fashioned sounding hoard, Of huge di.
mansions, was suspended over the pulpit Of one
Of tile chuIclesOf neighboIing city, by means oil
a rope Tint passed over pulley, aud was Delayed
under seatin the gallery, This seat wnS occu.
pied by sailor in one Of those sulTy Sabbaths in
August, when Morpheus is so nptto come unbid
den, and spread Tie mantle Of sleep over careless
worshippers. The oieIgymcn, who had once been
SEA captain, notwithstanding some doctnnal point
by nautical amecdote, while Jack, lulled into a
state Of observation-disclosures tythe monolonous
humdTum Of the preachers voice, wos imagining
himself 10 be again naOat on the bosom Of his ia