Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-12-16
RELIGIOUS ITE-n&.

TnE ATLANTIC MAGAzINE.-The New York
O5ssrcer warns the -4tLrntic Magazine to be
more religious, or it will share the fate of Put
aaa,, which Twas put to death for seeking to
poison the public mind with semi-infidelity un-
der the disguise of high literature; and it de-
served to die After quotation from the
ticle on Carlyle, this prediction Is hnEardcd:
No one needs to read this twaddle twice to
discover that the atlantic Monthly is the lneal
descendant of the lately deceased Putnam, and
the more dangerous because more spTightly.
able aud diversified in Its plan. The next two
UT three numbers will have little no ntideity
in them, for the cloak has been thrown off too
soon, but "what Is bred in the bone will come
out in the meat The atlantic Monthly viii,
therefore, do the work in this country that the
Westminster does in England, and having made
its mark so rs to be distinctly known il will go
to its own place.
a METHODIST STAGE PLAY.-The Puritan
Recorder charges one, il not more Methodist
churches in Boston, with what 1t calls 'sancti-
| fying the drama" meaning desecrating the
church, and says this is putting in practice what
| Unitarians like Dr. Bellows have taught i'll the.
DRY. They, according to the Recorder, give
| theatrical representations in connection with the
Sunday School, and sometimes rs Sunday even
| ing exercises. There is deal of dressing and
hair.cuTling oil the afternoon requiring the SER
iNtCeS Ot luC puUilC uU-tIGSSSI. "A Stsee ~
erected in front of the pulpit, with foot-lightS.
&c Dresses have even been procured for the
sacred theatre from the Boston Museum" "a
young miss, gaiy dressed in a brilliant plaid
with an over.tunic of white muslin, caught up
at intervals with underSleevcS and bracelets to
match" sings the Sailor Boy. The tnleSque
drama Of The District School and Sch r,l Com
mittee, is performed and received with Gaping,
shouting, and stamping. The presiding minis
ter, however, deprecated applause afte. the sa-
cred pieces. Entrance fees are paid.
a NEw WAY TO FILL CnURcn-.! cores
tpondent of the Boston Journal, thus refers to
some recent movements in the New York
churches:
The struggle that some of our feeble churches
make to sustain life, induces them 10 adopt
style Of advertising that closely resembles the
flash bills Of small theatre. They announce
queer subjects for their sermons-quant texts
and eccentric themes for discourses. Bot one
iof the latest devices comes off on Sunday next
\ new house of worship has been opened in the
upper part of the city. The church is feebie
one and the audience is SWAZILAND to make
noted the place and attract q crowd, military
company has been invited to attend public wOT-
ship in this new editice on Sunday P. NJ.
A New PulPIr CELEBRITY IN ENGLAND.-An
English correspondent of a Pittsburgh paper, i'll
lspeaking of several popular preachers in Eng
larisen among the Independents. A Mr.. Guinness,
an Independent, now student at New College,
London, vet in his teens Is bidding fair TO rival
the renowned Mr. Sturgeon, as another modern
Whitfield During his college vacation lie has
been preaching in Devonshire and Cornwall,
and has created among all classes and secIs an
Undesirable sensation. Mr. Guinessis a native
iof Ireland, and nephew of the great Dublin
lporter brewer. His father was an officer in the
tarmy-his mother the widow of Capt d. ESterre,
who fell in duel fought with the late Daniel
O'Gonnell, some forty-tive years since.
THE MoUsTAcuE IN TnE ENGLISH PuLPIr.-A
London periodical states that nearly all the Eng
Iish clergymen, living between two and three
hundred years ago, wore the moustache. In
his list of.those who wore the beard on the up
per lip, we find the well known names Of john
Donne, George Herbert Robert Herrick; Jeremy
Taylor, Thomas Fuller and Robert South The
famous John Knox, and the celebrated John
Bunyan, wore the inoustache; also Wielite,
Cardinal Pole, Alp CTanmer, Bishops Ridley,
Latilner, Jewel, HOlbech, Thirldey, Goodrich,
iSkip, Day, Abp. Land, and host Of others