The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-03
RELIGIoUs MArTsRs.
The annual salaries OF the clergy

New York amount to S5O4, 400.
The Young Mems Christian Associ .
alton of Lowell, Mass, has arranged
for series of outdoor Sunday services.
The friends of Archbishop Purcell,
of Cincinnati, are looking to see him
come home with a cardinals hat.
"A New York preacher advertis0s
his place of worship as "the coolest hall
in the city," We doubt if the hall is as
cool as the preacher.
Rev. DIR. McCluskey, of New York,
has been appointed Catholic Bishop of
Louisville, to succeed Bishop Lavialle,
deceased.
Open air religious meetings are
held with great success in the Park of
Baltimore. Order generally prevails,
and it is found that many people attend
who never enter church.
There are eight or ten clergymen in
the Connecticut Legislature, but pa
per candidly confesses that the inten-
tions ofthese pulpit orators are much
better than their laws, and are imprac-
ticable Legislators.
On the 3lst of October next it will
be three hundred and fifty years since
Luther nailed the ninety-five Theses
on the door of the Castle Church at
Wittenberg..r It will accordingly COM
plete the seventh Jubilee of the Refor-
nation, which historically dates from
that day.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation of Auburn, Maine, now sup
ports or ads in the support of twelve
mission Sabbath schools and prayer
meetings in the town OF Auburn, with
an aggregate average attendance ofover
500 persons. .......
speaking of the partiality OF the
bronchitis of the clerical profession,
the Providence Journal says: SIT rare
| ly attacks Il clergyman whose salary is
less than 81 900, or whose congregation
is not wealthy"
The Republican State ticket in Iowa
is thus divided according TO denomina-
tional creeds For Governor. Merrill,
CONGREGATIONAL; for Lieutenant Gov
ernor, Scott, Presbyterian; for Supreme
Judge, Beck, Baptist; for rSuperitendent
OF Public instruction, Wells, MeIho-
| dist; for Attorney General, O'ConnOr,
Congregational. All are church mem-
bers and strict temperance men.
In the days of the Patriarchs, a
woman's conduct was the index of her
heart. When. for example, the father
of Rebekah asked her If she would go
with the servant of Isaac, she replied at
once, "I will goV Had she been u
daughter of the nineteenth century,
she would have answered, "Oh, pshaw!
go with him? Why Mr.. Isaac must be
sick Go with him ? or course l
won'tW And then-she would have
gone with him.
Theodore Tilton, in the last Inde.
pendent, being moved by a letter ask
ing the question, "What constitutes n
religious article7" has written a col
umn and quarter reply. If it is a
sample of the clearness OF the future re-
llgious articles in this paper, they will
be funny mess, to say the least.
From this reply we learn that "a re-
ligious article is gold coin;" sit is,
like Evelyn Hope, born OF spirit, fire,
and .dew;n sit leaps like a fountain out
of the smitten rock of human expert
| ence;" il is the production OF "a noble
enthusiasm which makes literary COM
position the loftiest pleasure possible 10
the human mind" There are the dis
Linct definition given in as many differ
ent paragraphs. II any one can make
out from all this what constitutes re-
ligious article he is better at translating
hIghfalutin into common sense than we
are. Hs @
"A writer in the New York Gazette
contrasting Spurgeon and Beecher,
says: mo man in the world under
stands his physical system better than
Mr.. Beecher. His eating, sleeping, eX-
ercise, all conform to the laws of fhealth.
He is thoroughly temperate in all re-
spects. he has reached a half century
with sound constitution in a healthy
body, and has twenty-five years good
young man. His fleshy appearance
and the gout that has already overta-
ken him, show that physical laws must
be obeyed rs well as moral. Mr.. Beech
er lives plainly Is simple in his dress
and in his habits, and II met in the
streets, would sooner be taken for an
express man in u hurry Tor the cars,
than u minister. Spurgeon dresses in
true English clerical style, is free =llv-
| er, dispenses an elegant hospitality,
Keeps bis coach and coachmnn, lives in
| II fine mansion, and BOASTS OF as good
turn out US as the Archbishop OF Cam
terbury.
The Springfield, Massachusetts,, Re
publican says: ave acknowledge the
receipt from the United Brethren Pub
fishing House, Dayton, Ohio, of a book
entitled 'The Powers of the Air. with
the request that, unless we can give it
a favorable notice, we shall return it.
We can not take the trouble TO return
il, and we accept the other alternative,
and give 1t as good notice as we hon
estly can. Whether the writer
of the book is an idiot or lunatic, is a
question about which there is room for
| honest differences OF opinion. He has
our best wishes for his recovery and a
hopeful symptom of returning sound
ness will be, that he will consider this
a tirst-rate notice."
=" English Eccentricities, a work
recently published in London, contains
the following prayer: zE-H
Lord, Thou knowest that possess
nine houses in the city of London, and
that / have recently bought an estate
lin the county OF Essex. Preserve,
Therefore, pray Thee, the two counties
OF MiddleseX and Essex from fires and
earthunakes and, as have an hypo-
tbecaIed estate in Hertfordshire, look
also in compassion on that county; as
to the other portions of the county, do
az Thou wilt. Lord, consolidate the
Royal Bank, that II may honor its notes.
Lei all my debtors be or become honest
/ men, Give prosperous and speedy
passage to the sloop Mermaid, for the
insurance of which am responsible.
Preserve me from robbers and bri-
gands. Make all my servants faithful
and devoted, that they may watch over
= naTS n L IA.