The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-13
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millennium are now At Warehouse Point
Connecticut, sn1iously waiting TO go
up. The understanding is thai uniees
the present attempt Is successful there
will not b smother opportunity toT
goo Year,.
The Roman Catholic Of New York
are Circulating tracts in The form, style
and general appearance Of those Of the
American Tract Society, and are about
70 publish ehiIdTen's paper for The
nee Of Sunday schools
The propTistors Of the Peisrsb0rg
Va, papers have decided to print theil
Mondays issues on Saturday evening
in order 70 allow their employees &c
Observe the Sabbath. The Monday
news must be rather = stale article.
The report is current in Ch'csgc
that Bishop Ames, Of the u. E Church
who spen: a Sabbath in Wheeling
few weeks since, ca T0Ese 70 the sszi OF
a Western Conference. has been cap
tursd BY the Indians and Is nov N
their hands. The Bishop is noted for
his fearIsssness, and will Doubtless
succeed in making his escape D. sotne
I stroke Of mastery strategy.
The sis,hodists have decided upon
founding college in connection with
tbe!r missions in India Il is 70 Be
located in the city ofLaekEoV- II viii
rsoeiys the higher and brighter pupils
rom their mission zcbOoIz, and take
them through a regular collegiate
coursz. In tbsss different sch ools there
are now sbOat 300 pupils
Mr.. John Baldwin, OF Bsrea. Ohio,
whose noble gifts IN other directions in
the cause Of Christian education are
veil known, has determined to iound
= Methods. seminary in some good
Southern Location Tor she b+nsit OF me
freedmen. For this purpose he gives
50 90 At once, with = promise 20 IN
ssrsass The amount So Providence here
after may open the way
The great question Of union De-
tween the United Presbyterisns and
the Free PresbyteEian Church OF SEPT
land. WIS decided sfdrmstiveiy in she
General Assembly of the Free Church,
May 81, by vote q 80 10 lEz- The
United Church had Tot=d ssTsczl weeks
before in favor OF the nse-suE-s so 70
%. lis remarked thai o. the 5lst OF
May Sas the zuniye-sary OF Rev DE-.
death, Ju=; . years before
Increased desire has been shown
lateiy in France 10 resd the Bible.
which, it is alleged, is due in large
measure, to the feeling produced by the
works Of Renan. Many have been in
ducsd, after reading OF these "oFKs'
70 purchase the New Testament In or
der 10 ASCERTAIN Tor themselves whether
The account given by him is correct.
The Free Church of Scotland has
raised, for various religions and beney-
client purposes, during the year ending
March 20. 1867, the handsome sum Of
E55s. 6ss-mo.e than million and eight
hundred thousand dollsrsl The whole
number Of congregations connected
With this branch of the church, is prob
ably less than ! 900.
The debt OF si2 900, which has long
hung over the American Chapel, at
Paris, where Rev. DIR. Eldridge Is now
laboring, has just been eItinguished.
Four American gentlemen gave $1,000
each, several others 500 each, and by a
collection taken in the chapel Sabbath
morning, May 18th, the SUN WAS com
pleted and the debt cancelled.
DIR. Rev. Burrows, of Richmond,
Va, in his address before the Kentucky
Baptist General Assembly, at Hende-
son, said: nwe can't afford to let any
one be called Missionary Baptist for
less than one dollar per annum." DR..
Burrows also remarked in the same adj
dress: There are three kinds OF Bap-
tists-the Missionary Baptists, the Anti
missionary Baptists, and then there is
that Immense class, the OUlissioHdTg
Baptisis."
The annual returns OF the Society
OF Friends In England, present the fol
lowing figures: 6,474 malesi 1912 fe
males; total, 3,TS5, being an Increase o.
IL during the year. At the recent an
nual meetings great solicitude was
felt lest there should oe a relaxing o.
the testimony Of the order against
war.
Since the adjournment of the Gen
eral Assembly OF the United Presbyte
rian Church, and In view of the actor
of that body in regard to Rev. W. o
McCuue, charged with holding doc
trines not in accordance with the disci
pline and standards ofthat church, tbs
Orchard Street Church, Cincinnati. o
which he is pastor, have expressed theil
desire to dissolve connection with this
United Presbyterian Church, and ap
pointed II com mittee 10 inquire concern
ing the most eligible Denomination
with which to connect themselves.
The new Western Congregations
paper is getting on its legs and will
make its appearance about Sept. Ist in
Chicago. Its capital Is $50, 600, OF which
S25, 600 has been subscribed in Chicago
aud the balance iE to 20 to other ives.
tern cities. Ii is intended that tie pa,
per shall be OF the size and genera
style of the EUdn0eiist, published n
New York, and shall defend the Evan.
gelical doctrines and scriptural politJ
of tine Congregational churches The
editorship has been taken by Rev. DIR
Patton; and Hon. s. b. Gookins, TIL
Miller, II. u. Culver, @. NJ. Cady, J.
w. Butler, Revs. j. X. Shipherd and j
f. Roy have been chosen directors.
Gradually the Church is waking or
to the wrOngfnlness of species Of
gambling at Church Fairs. Recently
the grand jury of Ithica, n. Y, had n
der consideration the question Of in.
dieting the ladies OF two of the churches
of the city "for being engaged in getting
up and carrying on lotteries connected
with fairs held by them in the
Churches" 1t is believed by some thai
the present wide spread mania to en-.
gage in lottery speculations have been
greatly increased by lotteries held In
connection with church fairs.
The EpdM1eliSt speaks OF efforts
constantly made to attribute such and
such things TO Nature. What Is Naturei
We feel that we have a right In times
like these to know what kind OF re-
ligious philosophy that man holds who