The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-06
Rev. Albert Barnes has just finished

his forthcoming documentary on the
Psalms, and the manuscript has been
sent TO the publishers. The work will
appear simultaneously in London and
New York.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
South, now Episcopal Methodist, has
been protesting great love for the AEri.
can Methodist Episcopal Church. The
st. Louis Advocates Kentucky cores
pondent speaks of his newly-forned
acquaintances as "free-scented Ameri.
| icaDs."
Mrs. Stowe. author of "UncIe
Toms Cabin" has produced a very
fine collection of religious poems, pub.
lished by Ticknor d Fields, Boston.
There are some gems ofexquisite beau
ty in the little volume, and we must
admit, that among many other traits,
there is genuine poetry in the BeecheE
4 family. The work of Mrs. Stowe should
find place on every center-table. Il
! is just the book to improve weary
hour at home.
Quite warfare Is going on in Al
bany, New York, among the Methodist
Episcopalians, on the beard question,
growing out, in part, of the circulation
| of a tract against the unholiness and
heathenishness of full boards in general,
and mustaches in particular. 1t is said
that the barefaced brotherhood and SIS
terhood accuse the beard-wearers as
utter hair-etics.
| "A shIewd soldier was one day
trudging along alone, on some errand
of duty, when he met bare-faced,
white-throated preacher, whom he at
once recognized, by surface indications,
to be a member of that profession but
the plodding private affected Ignorance
of the solemn fact. Said the preacher
to the soldier, eyeing him with holy
stare, and speaking in sanctimonious
| monotone:
''Are you aware, my dear sir, that
you may be an alien to the House OF
Israel, having enlisted in the service OF
| sin? But after the manner of men,
what command do you belong TOT
II belong to the Second Ohio Regi-
ment, Army of the Potomac" said the
ready soldier. "And now, after the
manner of men, what army do you be-
long tor"
The preacher, in a very solemn tone,
replied, 81 belong to the Army of the
Lord. !"
"Wel," added the observant soldier,
TITS my candid opinion, my friend,
that you've got very long way from
headquarters"
The Religious Herald, of Cincinnati,
reports every week the texts and skele-
tons of the sermons preached the pre-
vious Sabbath by leading ministers OF
the city. 1t is good feature in a re-
hgious newspaper.
There is discussion now going on
among the periodicals of the NJ. E.
Church in reference to the number, and
official or unofficial character of their
publications. "Drs." Hosmer, of the
Northern I1adepende1lt, and Reid of the
| Western CYtI'iStiG1E Advocate, try "to do
each other honor" as respected broth
ers- But the former dips his pen into
the vinegar cruet, as follows: ''These
| facts prove, not that officialism is neces-
sary, but that it has stepped in by so
from loss, though at terrible eN-
pense to the Church generally, of an
unprecedented, unnatural and unwar-
rantHble ownership of the periodical
press of the denomination. It were
better that few men should lose prop
perty than that the church should lose
her liberty"
The National Baptist says: ''Union
among Christians in this world is de-
sirable. But with the present diver
sity of opinions, and the prejudices
created by education and fostered by
existing relations, perfect union, even
among true Christians, is hardly to be
expected"
The National Baptist and the New
York Christian AdUocate are discussing
the question whether a child that has
been baptized is safer than one that
has not.
Bishop Thompson, whose article
we mentioned in the first paragraph
above, speaks thus of some parts of the
West Virginia Conference territory:
"The spiritual destitution of the
country is great. The laborers are too
few for the field. One old lady blessed
God that she had lived to see presidia0
elder! Church edifiees are few and
far between; parsonages are still
more uncommon. Except in the
cities, the salaries of our preachers are
from S4Oo to 800 per annum. Their
labors are often difficult and danger
Gus. In the mountain regions, the
preacher often finds his road over mar
row paths, with fearful precipices be-
meath, up which the panther climbs to
meet him, and lodges of rock above,
from which the bears look down upon
him. He must swim broad and rapid
streams, and climb lofty eminencss,
sometimes leading his horse, and some.
times clinging to his tail. When he
reaches his resing-place, he must re-
concile himself to a feast of opossum,
rattlesuake, or bear meat, and feel no
apprehension If the daughter watch the
doorway to keep the hogs of while the
hostess cooks the meal, and suffer no
Inconvenience at nightSif the favorite
pig lodges in the same apartment with
the family and their guest -.LlLss- 41ul
Such men. deserve encouragement
and aid, We regret that we had but
eight thousand dollars of Missionary
money to spend upon this large con-
ference. If the Missionary contribu-
tions should not be Kept up this year,
we shall not be able to give that
amount next year, though the work
must be enlarged. This whole field is
| promising one. Healthful, central,
ted by railways, and having rich val
leys, and mountains of mineral treas
ures, it must attract population, and
provoke enterprise. In many counties,
the coal is in yeIna of 6 to feet deep,
and in Upshur county, the camel coal
is from u to IA feet deep. The time
may come when West Virginia will be
one of the best States in the Union. a
mountain region is much more likely
to rear noble race than the rich plain
or valley. Rugged Attica rose rapidly
to the highest eminence, while Beotia
as rapidly declined. EGrE
FOrne InteRi0eaeer.
Wool GroWera' Meeting.
The Ohio County Wool Growers
Association held meeting in TriadeI.
phia, on Saturday, March 23d, for the
purpose of inquiTing into the best dis
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