The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-17
RELIGIOUS OrIsCELLANY


I He who is right, andis doing right,
need not stop to5enq utre- VINO or Bnat
stands with him. ~ ~ ~ ~
Our most intimate friend is not he
TO whom we show the worst, but the
best of our nature.
Two Protestant missionaries. who
have Travelled from 1000 TO 5000 miles
in the interior of China, report that EN-
pire everywhere open to missinoary
enterprises.
The Old School Presbyterian Church
in this country, according to its recent
.ly published minutes, has 1902 minis
ters, 1922 churches, and total menu
bership of 246, $50. aa0--.F
i'm the republic of Liberia the
Methodists have 81 churches.- with a
membership of 1875, of whom ll21 were
born in America, and 249 were natives
of the country. Besides these are ABS
called probationers, not yet admitted TO
full fellowship. .-.-....s.
To be always intending TO lead "a
new life, but never to find time to set
about il, is as IL man should put of
eating and drinking from one day to
another: till he is starved or destroyed.
Tie number OF Baptist churches in
Great Britain and Ireland Is 23Sl, with
Il total membership of 2l3,I67, an in
crease of 1894 over the previous year.
New Orleans has SB churches, OF
which 25 are Catholic, 20 Methodist, II
Baptist, IL Episcopal, 8 Presbyterian, 4
Lutheran, l Congregational, Unita
rIan, Swedendorgihn, Protestant
German, and Sailors Bethel.
1t has been well said, that the tn ing
most likely to make the angels wonder,
Is to see a proud man. But pride of
birth is the most ridiculous of all vani-
ties-it is like boasting of the root OF the
tree, instead OF the fruit it bears. 20.
On the marble slab lying above the
dust of John Knox is this inscription: :
"Here lies man that never feared the
face of man."
A man in blouse once said, 81
have no more influence than a farthing
We'll" was the reply, "a
farthing rusnlight can do. a great deal;
it can set haystack on fire, 1t can burn
down house, yea, more, it win ll'euable
a poor creature to read IA chapter in
Gods book. Go your way, friend, let
your iarthing rushlIght so shine before
men, that others seeing your good
works may glOrify your father which
is in Heaven"
4 In 1893 Rev. Jeremiah Porter went
to Fort Dearborn, at the mouth of the
Chicago river, and there gathered and
organized the first Christian Church,
consisting of only few members,
where now the great city OF Chicago
stands.
Rev. DIR. Eliot, Unitarian minister
at St. Louis, says: THE West Graves
the Gospel of Jesus Christ,-Christ as
the Master, and the Bible as authority.
The Western mind is free, and ready,
and sLronS. hut is reversntial. 1t feels
the need 6d:omethinE Rreaterthan the
81 Plato or Emerson
Rev. Joseph Parker, d. d., Is re-
ported to be the author of "IGcce Deus"
A paragraph in the ConqregGtiondList
Independent church at Cavendish Chap
ell, Manchester, England, man with
out collegiate education or any special
for the ministry. he began 10
preach few years ago at Banbury, In
Oxfordshire, and soon drew attention
10 himself as man OF more than or
dinary power as a thinker and preach
er."
The WutcAman and Reflector says !:
"Auguste Comte, though dead, is
his followers about to found a
new sect. A church founded on Posi-
tivism is now forming n London, where
have for some time been held,
sermons preached, and the abstract
principles of the French philosopher re-
duceu to religious r1Ormuiary. me
new sect repudiates the supernatural
origin OF religion, making man its
source and object. Humanity is its
deity, and eminent men who have con-
tributed TO otheimprovement of the race,
are the objects of its worship" -
BY the recently published report of
the American Home Missionary Socie-
ty it appears that the total receipts OF
the society for the year ending April l,
1867, were S2l2, ,567 63, and that the whole
number of persons in its employ, paid
wholly or in part from its treasury,
was SIG, distributed in % States and
Territories.
Hon. Amasa Walker, who has been
collecting statistics on ministers saln-
ries, publishes the result in the COngre-
gdtiondLiSt of this week. He has re-
ceived reports of 900 ministers OF eight
different denominations. OF those
whose reports were exact enough for
he finds that the average
salary In 1860 was S772 SO; in 1865, it was
$9O7 2s. From all his returns he de
duces the general fact that since 1860
salaries have advanced not
more than 20 per cent, while the cost of
living has advanced 100 per cent.