The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-02-03
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RELIGIOUS NEWS!
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Asrevival under the joint auspices Of
the Methodist Protestant and n. r.,
Churches, has been going on up at
Wellsburg, with some 40 additions.
E6The Superintendent of the United
ltPresbyterian Board of. Publication.
lately received from friend four
Thousand dollars, in five-twenty bonds.
for the purpose of publishing the Bible.
the Psalms being printed in metre.
DIR. Hepburn, in referring to changes
going on In. Japan, says that the Impe.
rial edict against Christianity is dead
letter. The Government has failed to
enforceiit against the persons arrested
at Nagasaki. Foreigners have secured
q hrm position In the country, and are
feared. 81. l 49,,
A. D. Lockwood, of Lewistowh, Me-,
has given Sl2, 900 toward the erection d
the new Congregational Church in that
place. The late Levi Graves, of Spring.
field, Mass, gave the income of his real
estate at Hartford, $50, 600, to the AmerI-
can Home Missionary Society, Board
OF Foreign Missions and American
Bible Society. -
Bishop Quintard, of Tennessee, says
Church Fairs are treason "against
AON anu MS OuElsI 10 give cOuntenanca
to such evil measures." The vicious
practices, he says, are gaining ground
in the Church, and the means resorted
to to build churches outrage. all sense
Of religion, and break down all the bar
.riers to public morality.
Newman Hall says of American
preaching:
The sermons are too precise, too eldb-.
iorate, too argumentative, too essay
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like earnest talk. Moreover, they are
too often read with strict adherence
to the prepared manuscript. and
thus, though if.reported verbatim, they
would be read as finished treatises. as
beard, they are frequently unimpress-
SP1RrTUAn LEcrUREs.-Hfrs. Nellie
Wiltsie Bronson lectures every Sunday
morning and evening, to large ,au-
diences5 at Greenwood Hall, upon
Spirttualism; the subject for her dis
course in the evening. being selected by
committee, chosen by the audience
skeptics being preferred to compose
that COMMITTEES. Last evening we felt
disposed to hear this lady, and. there
fore, went to Greenwood Hall. bnt not
till after the committee had been select
&c, and thus did not learn their names.
but think they were all unbelieVers in
tins euoctrine,o OF Spirituafi ism. After- the
Invocation they announced the subject.
Does Science prove the Immortality of
the soul or Spiritua1isn 2
Without a moments hesitation the
speaker grappled the subject, and spoke
for an hour in a. very eloquent and for
cible manner, displaying remarkable
ability and tact In handling her subject,
For an impfomptuspeeCh. tnon snfdif
fcult a subject, it was, indeed, an er.
traordinary effort, and demonstrates
that. as an eXtemporaneous speaker,
she equals any pulpit orator that we
ever listened to. In her ordinary con-
versation she does not display any re.
markable INTEL lectual ability or culture.
and, therefore, such powers of mind, as
her speech OF last night Indicates, are
worthy, of the heiinyestigatiOns of theolo-
gtans and men of science:-CiI. Times.
Fast xoung men n the Great Metrop-
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The New York Sun pronounces the
following Item in a letter from that
city to the Milwaukee Sentinel to be |
scandalous libel:
''The establishment of the ballet in this
country has brought with II one or two
other French features. Tie theatre Is |
being, "run down" by fast! young men
who hang around the green room. and
wings, wealthy sctona, who boast OIL
triumphs among ballet girls, and keep
theprice of bouquets up by their conS
slant purchases. "A few nights ago the
members of fashionable club II |
might as wellsay II was the ManhattanI
took the stage door Of Niblo's by storm.
They came In coaches with hampers
OF wine and sandwiches, and In spite
of stage manager and carpenter, took
possession of the dressing rooms and
commenced a lively saturnia, which
w21nd np in something very like the
Sabine scene so familiar to our classic
memories. IL would not do TO kick
patronage and bouquets are immense.
They are formidable In money and in
huence and members"