The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-11-11
mOKAL AND RELIGIOUS.

Hungary promises to pursue lio-
eral policy IN religious matters.
Eleven of the New York churches
have boy choirs.
The Russians are not proscriptive
in religious matters.
The Northwestern Conference OF
Universalists is holding its biennial
session at Chicago.
"A sermon in four words on the
vanity OF earthly possessions: "Shrouds
have no pockets"
An irreverent exchange suggests
that the Te Deum in many churches
continue throughout the service.
The Church Nei0S publishes IA list of
one hundred and fifty Episcopal
Churches in which lights are now
habitually placed on the communion
table.
The Church UniOn indulges in puus
to an extent unusual with religious
uapers. In the last number we find
the following: ITO kiss the Pope's toe
is said to be Romish feat. The High
Churchites have improved on Rome in
this regard. us in others. They stubb
the parish toe against Il church canon
till It Tyng-les."
"A lawyer who consumes three hours
in arguing a question of law relating
10 Lle ownership Ol u Vi dRP4GSt
is indignant at the preacher for exceed
ing twenty-five minutes in unfolding
one of the greatest principles of moral
ity, on the observance of which the toll
erable existence of society depends.
-Atthe Philadelphia gathering OF
the various branches of the Presbyte-
rian Church, they say:
According as the days have been,
Wherein we grief nave had,
And years wherein we III have seen,
SO do Thou make us glad.
The Catholic Bishop Goss, of Liv-
erpool, who is u very active social re-
former, has commenced crusade
! against the low dresses worn by ladies
at balls. In recent sermon he stated
that sat Catholic balls, in Liverpool,
where Protestants attended, the Catho-
| lies might be known and distinguished
| by the very eXtravagaucies of their
| dress. He had been told that their
dresses were lower and more unbecom-
| ing than the dresses worn by PrOtes-
/ tants. There seems to bea general ten
denCy to semi-nudtty, and latterly
/ ladies have taken to shortening their
dresses at both ends, as the sailor burn
ed the candle, probably to eXpediate
their progress to the desired airiness OF
| costume.
The Hartford (Ct.) } Courdnt says that
the Congregational ministers OF Con-
necticut have thoroughly canvassed
their parishes to ascertain the actual
religious condition of the State. The
result was unexpected. In one hun
dred towns, at least one.third of the
| families are not in the habit of going to
church. IrreIigion was found to in
crease in proportion to the distance
| from the centre of the towns. 1t pre-
walls more in spaTsely settled farming
| districts: than in the manufacturing
Fvillages. A similar state of things is
reported to exist in some parts of Mass
iachusetts.
The recent session of the Rock
River 4llinois) Conference of the Meth
odiSt Episcopal Church, took very de-
seided grounds on the subject of divorces
and re-marriages. They recommended
that the Legislature be memOriallZed to
pass laws restricting divorces zinc Hto
mGtIiBloni; that is, breaking the chain
md allowing to re-marry for the crime
| of adultery, only as prescribed in the
: sacred scriptures and also, as is the
case in England, allowing DEGREES OF
divorce a mcTISG ct GhOTO," which is II
legal separation OF the parties, as TO bed
and board, and any control of the pro-
Derty or person of the other by either,
but does not allow the marriage OF
either of the parties to any other. This
question of divorce is just now exciting
considerable discussion all over the
Christian world.