The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-07-04

duIl-cuFlSL AS inc nedu OF the church,
substituting human dogmas for the
bread of life, making merchandise o.
sin and pardOning the guilty for money,
requiring gold for prayers and pardons
and births and buriaIS, and every.
thing except the right to believe
and teach the pure gospel of Christ
lettering freedom and binding the
conscience and forbidding the right oi
private Judgment, offering PRAYER to q
woman and TO so-called saints. many
of whom were monsters of iniuuity-oI
whether we look among seats more an.
cient still where Satan long has reigned
in the henthenism of India, China, AT.
rlca, the Islands of the Sea, or the Abo.
rlginies of our own land, there, beside
the millions converted to God and
folded in her puleS-aS we'll the frontier
cabin and the country schoolhouse, as
in the frame, or brick, or stone or mar.
BILE churches of her better davs-at
home and abroad has our loved and
hOnored Church successfully assailed
the strongest entertainments of the ad-
versnry, planted in triumph the stand.
ard OF the cross, and reared on their
demolished walls temples OF praise and
prayer to the God, of the patriarchs and
prophets, the holy apostles and martyrs,
the only living and true God. Never
more than at present has she enioyed
His presence and blessing; Iengthening
her cords, strengthening her stakes,
enlargIng the sphere of her operations,
putting IL into the hearts of her loyal,
loving children to draw together more
closely, and more and more to deny
themselves, and pour out their wealth
as water, for her enlargement and es-
tabliShment, and making her truly
scriptural doctrines, her apostolic order
and her simple, yet earnest and i'm
pressive worship a SAVIOR of life unto
n a SNff I'D Al.
Yation of sOulS.'
Seven years ago, a few devoted men
and women, ever foremost in every
good word and work, commenced Il
Mission Sabbath School within one
hundred yards of where we now stand.
With various fortunes, the work has
grown i'll strength and interest, until it
mas not only warranted but, in connec-
tlon with the large increase of member
ship in the society where most of them
worshipped, required (nt least such is
the conviction of the dear friends who
have so heartily and nobly entered on
the enterprise) the establishment of this
new congregatiOn--the third offshOot
within year or two, from the Fourth
Street Church.
And now, as members of other
churches and friends of our common
Saviour, in connection with this hon
orable, friendly and benevolent Order
-neXt to the church the most ancient
anu useful institution in the world,
and which for centuries has laid the
foundation stones of the most eminent
public structures in both hemiSpheres,
we have met not coldly to sanction,
but heartily to rejoice with and con-
Sratulate them on this uuspicious be-
ginning of their enterprise.
Here then and now on this occasion
o1 profound and solemn interest, in the
name of Him who has said, "Behold 1
lay in Zion foundation, n stone, "A
chief cornerstone, elect, precious" and
to the Honor of Him who is ''the desire
OF all natiOns;" to Him to whom Jacob
erected u pillar in Bethel, saying, "this
is Gods house :" to whom Moses built
tabernacle i'll the wilderness, and Sol
omOn temple in Jerusalem which He
filled with the glory of his presence, and
Tor the promotion of virtue, intelli-
gence and piety, for the salvation OF
man and the glory of our Redeemer's
Kingdom, we lay the corner stone OF
Zane street Methodist Episcopal
Church. Peace be within its walls and
prosperity forever. in the name of the
Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.
Beside the above, the color
ed church and the Island congrega-
tion have removed from old Fourth
street, leaving the parent hive almost
us strong as when, over two years ago,
its present pastor took charge. All
the offshoots, we understand, are -four.
ishing finely, and those who remain
are rapidly perfecting measure for the
re-erectiOn i'll finer style than ever, OF
their place of worship. Next Sunday
is the last they will spend in the present
building after which, until the compile
ton of the church, they will worship in
Washington Hall.