The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-24

Milwaukee.
Father Lewis, pioneer Methodist
minister of Ohio, died in GAINESVILLE re.
Gently, aged 50 years.
The Plymouth Congregational
church at Pittsburg, has called Rev.
Levi l.. Paine, of Pennington, c., at a
salary ofs2, 800.
out of door preaching is being car
ried on actively and successfully in
Chicago and Sandusky.
The minutes ofthe New School Pres
( byterian church for the present yeaI
show 1 $50 churches, $40 ministers, a
total mem bership OF 26l ,539-a gain of
about IL coo over last year.
On the 10th of July Mr.. EliPhalet
Ames. now in his 9Sd year, was bap-
tized and admitted into the Congrega-
tional Church at South Killinby, Con
necticut. Until within few years MIR.
| Ames was disbeliever in the doctrines
| ofthe Bible.
AT De Witt, Iowa, week before last a
circus exhibited during Saturday alter
noon and evening, and its proprietors
the next day granted the request of the
Christian and Baptist churches for the
use of the tent, they being without a
meeting house, and religious setvices
were held, there being Il good attend
ance. --a'--
"A general convention of the Pres
byterian churches is to be held in Phil
adelphia on the second Wednesday in
september, at the call of the Reformed
Presbyterian Church, to consider the
/ question of the union of the Presby-
| Ierian churches OF the country. The
cali embraces all PRESBYTERIAN churches
| in the United Stutes. A great attend
ance, however, is doubtful.
The minister OF the Baptist Church
in New London, CT, Rev. Mr.. Bell, is
undergoing an ecclesiastical court
martial. He is charged with fraudu-
len;ly collecting and appropriatinG
money, OF stealing sermons, of falsely
representing himself AS the graduate OF
theological seminary in Rochester,
and of not getting married when he
agreed to. Mr.. Bell denies or explains
a%ay all the charges to his own satis-
faction, and the question is whether he
can satisfy the tribunal before which
he is arraigned.
There ia II wide field for teetotal
missionaries in Russia, aud the first
converts should be the priests of the
Greek church. They drink fearfully
and continunlly. On the patrons day
the priest is bound nfter morning mass
to take saints icon, and bear it from
one end OF the village to the other, en-
teriug into each cottage, blessing the
inmates with the icon, and drinking
one, sometimes even two glasses OF
brandy to their health. The conse-
quence is, that by the time the process
sion is over, the priest, his deacon and
choristeTs, all of them dead drunk, are
put upon cart together with the icon,
and taken back TO the parsonage by the
soberest among the peasants, or Stlll
more frequently by some of their wives.
The trouble among the Baptist pas
tors in New York in respect to the pub
lication Of Mr.. Beecher's sermons in
their leading paper, the ErGmincT', is by
no means at an end. They declare Mr..
Beecher's sermons heretical, and they
will attempt TO excite opposition 10
them in the denomination, and If the
Examiner persists in printing them
they saw they shall consider 1t their
duty to establish another Baptist paper.
And still Mr.. BeeCher will preach, and
still continue TO exert the widest rell-
gious influence of any minister on this
continent.
The Rev. W. +. Williams. of the
Eastern Turkey mission of the Ameri-
can Board, mentions the following
facts: More than half the Protestant
community of Diarbekir, numbering
not more than go males, are dependent
upon their daily eaI nings, ana 1t has
not been easy for them TO feed and
IL Haf t,atnilfnG aud nnp-thiT1
Them would, i'll the United States, be
Ct united objects of charity; yet they
have felt 1t IA duty and a privilege to
contribute from their scAnty resources
for different religious purposes during
the year, Is, 900 Piasters, or II ,2SS 90 IN
gold; equivalent to 5000 days labor, or
24IT days labor TO each adult male in
the congregation; which, reckoning
labor at 81 day, would be equivalent
10 $40 for every male adult in the United
States. There is no such "giving TO the
Lord" as that in this country ofabund-
ance.
-Spiritualism boasts that it throws
flood OF new light on the mysteries OF
life. The following, from the Banner
of Lisht, may be luminous, but most
people will find it rather dazing: "Ce-
lestial man takes on six enveloplng
cIothings in his descending cycle, his
outcoming life. his incarnations; or,
perhaps, better worded, he grows out
wardIy from himself, as spirit, into six
degrees of expression, his seventh de-
gree being himself, most internal, most
deitic in the special or analytic sense
(which is the larger diviner) when max
ing his upward cycle of movement; for
then he exercises his negatives, his su-
perficial and artificial characteristics,
and makes himself more consciously
immortal in wholeness-in the seven
degrees OF his trifold being, conscious
of his past consciousness-a harmonic
trinity in unity, and Lords and Lords"
Precisely so.
On the day appointed for his trial,
for the ecclesiastical crime of preaching
in church not duly consecrated by an
Episcopal bishop, Rev. S. d. Tying, Jr.,
was off at willianstown, enjoying the
society of his old college friends, and
fraternizing with Congregationalsts,
Presbyterians, and other ''sectaries" as
if he were proud to recognize them as
felIow-christians and fact in publicly
denounciug the high-church attacks
upon the missionary work of the
American Board in the Sandwich Is
lands. Those Episcopal clergymen in
New York and vicinity who sympa-
thize with youny Tying in his liberality,
have organized a "Church brother
hood" and they will not only act on
the defensive, but "carry theIwar into
Africa" They threaten even to put
.,a rant1r NJ IT, ChurRl1 ftanlf IN