Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-01-14
WHEEL
THE INTELLIGENCER.

| SAicu NOTES lrom DeecherS dScOurses, being
the fragmentary reports of striking passages by
a lady member of Mr.. Beecher's church, Miss
Augusta Moore. The book, aside from what
any one may think of the Reverend gentleman's
political or religious opinions, is a very interest.
ing and instructive one being repete with
passages, that are not only brilliant but some
of them marked with singular and searching
force. In looking through this book in a super
fetal way and reading desultory paragraphs
here and there, We have been struck with the
following:
Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ,
and to me it would be but heap of dust
would as soon have all Egypt raked into a heap,
wherein not n stone Of It's cities, nor a trace of
its inhabitants could be found, as that book, if
Its Christ be not God.
Farmers have learned lesson which many
uOralsts have not learned: namely, that when
seed is sown grain must be looked for at the lat
ter end Of the harvest, and not at the begin
ming.
What man has thought and felt bears inti-
mate relation to what he roc thinks and feels.
There is TO such thing divesting ones self of
the influences of former living. = mans life
is a coucatenation-he rolled over aud over on
himself
In love, the freshness and charm of youth
have caught mems attention, and they have
pronounced the first love the best. but il is the
poorest. One does not know how to love TIL
he has felt the discipline Of life. Young love is
a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce,
but still only light and tlickering. The love of
the older disciplined heart is as Goals, deep,
burning, unconquerable
don't believe in definitions of feelings, or
classes Of feelings. They can be illustrated
not defined
Men who concentrate themselves all upon one
L.,
have spear like force of character, but they are
never broad and rOund-never Of full proper
toned manhood; which can only be obtained by
carrying round the whole of man in an
even created march.
There are other passages in this book notless
striking, and many more interesting, but too
lengthy for our quotations.
We have also on our table the NoRrH
AMERICAN REVIEW, for January, published
by Crosby, Nichols & Co. The well known
character of this quarterly shines out in every
page of the present number The criticism
on Macknight's History of the Life aud
Times of Edmund Burke, occupies about fifty
pages, and is ono of the best specimens Of its
kind that VIC ever remember to have read
While it is eulogistic enough to satisfy the ad
mirers of Burke's writings, it is liberal IN its
conclusions, admitting that Burke's hands were
not free from stain, and that his relations with
Lord Rockingham and others were not those
which should subsist between statesmen. We
commend the article for its candor and great lit
erary merit The articles on DeQuincy's writ
ings and Bible Revision, are eminently sugges-
tive and should receive attention.
We have also before US the southern Literary
Messenger for january. This number is good
one, and contrasts favornbly with that OF De-
cember-of which, it may be remembered, we
took occasion to speak in terms of disapproval
in several particulars. The bill of fare served
up, however, in this number is. we may say.
altogether unexceptionable-and some of the
articles are more than meri,orius. The "leI-
tiers of Spinster" concerning the Inauguration
of the 5Oul President of the United States, and
the Public Affairs OF the 2Ist century" occupy,
refresl,ingly, to us, the space heretofore con-
sumed by ''Mozls Addums."
The first letter is dated thus:
FROM MISS MARY DELEwARE PEYroS,
Presently at Washington.
' Ras,elas Oregon.