The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-15


scientiously retain, for twenty have re-
lapsed into polygamy who have
been more than four years under
tuition, and yet could not, by any
means, be persuaded to marry lawfully
and receive holy baptism. Though
painful in Its nature, must be faithful;
cannot act otherwise.
| From the beginning 1t has been fea-
ture of practical Christianity, that
wherever Jealous and earnest believers
Joined their efforts for the advance
ment of religion hedged up in one way,
instead of abandoning their object they
would try some other way. In Eng
land, at the present the distractions
and delays experienced in the regular
church organizations have. led TO new
expedients, open air preaching, and
other methods, one OF which is thus
stated in a recent English paper:
"'Free Gospel Halls are beginning
to spring up, mainly in connection
with the Hallelujah Bands. One has
very recently been opened at Leicester,
and another at Norwich. In South
ampton Gospel Hall has been OPEN
eq TO enable Mr.. Lyon, a street harp
player, whose labors have been success
full there, to carry on his ministra-
tions.", s-t'S -f-H-
The New York Herald calls attention
to the anniversary of st. Peters mar
tyrdom which is to be commemmorated
at Rome this year, on Saturday, the
2eth of June, with extraordinary pomp
and ceremony. After telling us that
the Pope has invited all the Bishops in
Christendom who can find 1t conven-
lent to accept his invitation to assemble
beneath the dome of st. Peters on the
day of st. Peter and st. Paul, the writer
proceeds to say: r-tssa o. -..r. .s-.
"Five hundred bishops have already
signif1ed their intention of attending
the sulemnities, and 1t Is anticipated
that not less than eight hundred pre-.
lAtes of every tongue and nation, and
race and color, from all parts of the
globe, will be present on this great oc-
casion. A large number of American
bishops have this past week sailed from
New York on their way to Rome. On
the map not single country can be
found which will not send one, or more
than one, bishop to this mighty gather
ing at the centre ofthe Christian world.
The lately appointed Vicar Apostolic
of the North Pole will meet their
dignitaries from South, West and
in communion with Rome will
come patriarchs and prelates OF
the Catholic Americans, of the Catholic
or United Greeks, of the Catholic Sy-
rians, the Maronites, the Chaldeans,
and the Copts. All these differ from
each other in ritual and sundry mat
ters of discipline, as in language; they
wear vestmental and robes unknown
to the Western churches; but, never
theless, one and all, they acknowledge
the Pope as the chief Bishop, and they
are in full unity of faith and practice
with the See of Peter. America,
Europe, Asia, and Africa, will be duly
represented at the splendid and impos-
ing spectacle which Rome will witness
in an assembly composed of more va
rious and more remote nationalities,
than those which met the first day of
Pentecost al Jerusalem. II will be diff
ficult for any one who shall visit
Rome this summer to reject such visi-
BILE claims as the Church will there and
then display to its title of Catholic.
This solemn gathering from the utter
most ends of the earth, together with
the Offering of the immense voluntary
contributions of the faithful every
where, will attest the miraculous vital
ity of the Church. The Pontif himself
| with the Representatives of all the ma
tions kneeling at his feet, will offer a
striking contrast to the position to
which he seemed about TO be
reduced not long ago, when the
| last French troops left Rome, and the
sovereigns of Europe had apparently
agreed that the inevitable hour had
come for depriving him of his temporal
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