The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-13
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the charity of the poor2
The slave pen at Richmond has
been converted into divinity school
room for colored preachers.
Christian strength consists in tbs
possession of internal stores which
will enable us in measure to main
tain an independence Of outward cir
cumstances for happiness.
George 81. Stuart, of Philadelphia
President of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association, in under church dis
cipline. He is a member of the "Asso.
ciate Presbyterian Church." and he is
charged with singing other than the
Psalms of David and communing with
other denominations.
-Grander words were never uttered
by mortal man than those that fell from
the lips of Abraham Lincoln: "With
charity for all and malice toward none,
| let us do the right as God gives us to
understand the right"
Edward Everett said to friend,
"If you are willing to be reckoned with
those who consider going to church as
| going TO a fashionable exchange, or TO
a place of entertainment Tor weary
| leisure day, why then it little matters
where you go or where you do not go"
John Newton once said: 1.-THE art
of spreading rumors may be compared
to the art OF pin making. There is
usually some truth, which 1 call the
| wire; as this passes from hand to hand,
one gives 1t polish, another point,
others make and put on the head, and
at last the pin is completed"
At present there are eight benefices
in the Irish Church, worth on an aver
age more than $500 year each, and
containing an average church popula-
ton of more than five thousand souls,
whose incumbents are under the pro-
lection of the Court for Insolvent Debt
ors. During the last twenty years
| large proportion of deans, archdeacons
and other diguitaries, holding large
liyings, have been iIisolvent.
Whenever unselfsh love is the
handspring of mems actions; whenever
happiness is placed not on what we can
gain for ourselves, but on what we can
| impart to others; whenever we place
our satisfaction in gratifying our
fathers and mothers, our brothers and
sisters, our wives and children. our
! neighbors and friends-we are sure to
obtain all the happiness the world can
| bestow.
| Faith is not apt to turn chooser of
the bounties of God, but attaches chief
value to that which bears the clearest
stamp of his will. 1t INDUCES no large
| expectation, especially no immoderate
| craving for temporal good, we'll assur-
| ed that but little can be lost here at
most, and that nothing can be intend
ed to afford us rest which we must so
soon leave, and our fondness for which
to mi n IN n harm
"A sub-dean was talking to dean
about titles accorded to church digni-
taries, in the tone of man who feels
himself aggrieved. "An archbishop"
said he, sis a most reverend, u bishop
is a reverend, and a dean is very
reverend. Don't you think II sub-dea-
con should have some prefix of the
kind? "Well, yes, /" answered his SUI
perior, 81 certainly agree with you.
How would rather reverend doP"
"A new analysis of Church parties
has just been made by DIR. Hurst, in
his "History of Rationalism." DR..
Hurst classities some $4,000 of the oler-
gy as follows:
High Church.
Normal Type, Anglican ,0OO
Exaggerated type, TractaIian ... 900
StaRnant Type, High and Dry..-..---.........E-oOO
Lou Church.
Normal Type. Evangelical. 2Og
Exaggerated Type, kecordite...............2, w
StagnRnt Type, Low and slow..........-....- 1OJ
Broad Church.
Normal Type, Theoretical and Antl-Ihe- . en-
ExSEeeTated type, Extreme Kationaiists 800
Stagnant IyEe- Nv
There is body of people in this
country, calling themselves Christians,
with the first long. The following
paragraph from the Examiner and
Chronicle, describes briefly the position
and character of this singular body:
"Thls body are Unitarians in their
views of the Saviour, Baptists in their
practice of baptism, and they have no
creed but the Bible. They met in Con-
vention at New Bedford, short time
since. The body arose in 1906, in the
town of Portsmouth, n. n. 1t has
| been scattered widely, but sparsely,
over the country; and except In few
| localities, it has not had much power.
1t founded the Antioch College, In
Ohio, which the Unitarians have alb
sorbed. The Christians live under the
same roof as the Unitarians, but eat at
the second table. AS a sect it IS patron
ized by the overshadowing body ike
poor relation"
Frederick Cozzens tells the follow
ing anecdote of sermon by an Irish
priest. The priest was learned and
eloquent Irishman, with a strong
brogue and the national proclivity to
"bulls." The sermon was from this
text: "Upon this rock will build my
Church." After portraying the vicissi-
tudes of his church, the good father
closed with peroration as follows:
"And now, me harers, the Catholic
Choorch is like a stately ship reform
| ing from a perilous voyage. All the
waves and the pillows have tundered
against her solid sides. The storms
have beat upon her, lightnings have
flashed and tunders rolled above he r.
Her sails have been rint by the gale;
vet now she comes again to poort on
aven kale, with livery third of livery sail
sthretched to prosperous breeze, and
all her flags and pennons Haunting out
upon the air. And why, harers, why Is
It that our noble ship, the Choorch,
comes thus safely into poortH 1t is be-
cause, me harers, she is Joundhered upon
q rock"
The majority of men and women
live as If there were no great hereafter.
All their thoughts are on the concerns
of the few years of life on earth. What
are twenty, thirty, forty or fifty years
How soon do they pass2 How few live
even ten years after reaching manhood
or womanhood? Fewer still see twenty
years. And yet all plan and scheme as
| If their lives were to be an eternity.
They live as If they could not afford 10
| be poor and humble here for a few
years, but as il they could afford TO
be poor, miserable, wretched, lost,
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