The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-04-26
REV. DIR. NEWMAN.
President Grants FavOrite Clergy
man Photographed.

curled her capltaIs, ana OlacKed ner
eyes, and left a perceptible odor OF new
mown hay in the hslt-sheet Of foolscap.
Thrifty goddess, behold the doctor !
He is a lusty fellow to wrestle with
angels and would break down Jacob g
ladder if be set bis foot on it TO climb
TO heaven. He weighs upwards OF two
hundred pounds, and his hips, thighs,
back and belly are adapted to fight at
the doors OF fairs on free-admission
DAYS. A certain kind OF oil is resident
in his skin, which oozes out in that
gracious sort OF perfume peculiar to
people OF professional holiness. His
hair is ola light brown color, worn
long, and mis- features are large, effec-
tive and without sensibility. Broad
shouldered, of good height well,dress-
ed in blue broadcloth, with fash OF
gold somewhere about his watch-fx-
ings, and forwardness, worldliness, and
visible godliuess all over him-such is
the hyperbole Of preacher.
The clerical office is, upon occasion,
the most needlul aud healing which
man can fill. 1t brings the oil OF balm
into the households OF people beresved.
and when physic ls done, doctors the
mind and heart. The blessed fellowship
OF a true man in the ministry how well
we know who have felt his hand upon
Us, saying MY brother. take heart
There is higher life than this" For
the sake of this great remedial and re-
tining office, and to protect 1t against
presumers, the press OF the country has,
almost with unsnimity, condemned the
whole course OF oslentstious and in
triguing procedure of DR.. Newman.
At the centennial celebration OF
American Methodism, 1t WAS resolved
to erect at Washington City Church
with q grand Latin title OF the Metro
poitan-a word which much reminds
us OF the Roman phrase OF the Metro
poitan See. To accord with this am
phlblous edfce, Metropolitan preach.
er was demanded. He came to his
work with the ambition aud unscrupu-
lous assumption OF a Jesuit-whIch
word | use in a critical sense, for some
of my acquaintauCes are members OF
the Jesuit Order, and have much more
humility than Dr.. Newman. The new
clergyman Immediately set to work to
depopnIste the nelghboring church
es. He took off the Chief
Justice from Wesley Chapel; and
Mr.. Colfax, who wss possessed with
the Presidency, came over from the
First Presbyterian. The building WAS
domineered over by noisy chime ol
bells. The tower, which had been
begged by one OF the sisters from an old
gentleman at Baltimore, WAS Ostents-
tiousIy inscribed Kelso's Splre. The
interior was adorned with cedar OF lie.
banon and shittimwOod, hauled free
from Jerusalem. The preacher ap-
peared to begrudge the choir all the
time they spent siDging,in and wanted ia
do the whole performance himself He
got bimse speedily elected Chaplain
o the Senate, and the amount OF elocu-
cution which he did on weekdays wa
stupendous for to see. HIS sermons
were OF the most modern character,
with a Mansard roof on top, aud a
mortgage 10 the rear. He charged
them with assumption Ike vase o
soda-water. To day he thundered al
the newspaper press, and the next day
covered President Grant with oil in the
milst OF prayer TO Jehovah He in
structed the Senate az TO ts duty, ask
ed the Lord TO give simplicity Of wis
dom to the Chiei-Justice, and alluded
to the equinoCtisl storm as the
booming "simoom." Determined to
he made a Bishop, he undertook
Office brokering tor the brethren, some
OF whom, he said, would rather collect
tax tor Cessr than be gate keeper in
the house Of the Lord; and At this point
the chief iuglemsn OF the Metropolitan
See got into newspaper cOrrespOn ienCe
He fastened upon President Grant
like q hor-e leech this term seems "a
he appropriate both to the leech and
the horse-snd, -kimming the horizon
for a point Of sensation, the Reverend
Doctor concluded TO convert the Nor
mons Properly advertised, be moved
in 8 caravan upon those devoted peo-
pie. His march across the country
resembled that Of mensgerie, and al
the animals, from the monkey to the
alligator, were represented in this grand
trans-continenta fantasy. o. course be
made religion ridiculous, and added n
old Orson Prs,t's Biblical coucert.
Failing TO accom- mplish anything, Mr.
Newman returned to Washington, and,
with unparalleled mesnness, proceeded
to operate upon the Government aud
have the MOrmons persecuted.
He has been routed 10 his insid1ous
and audscons attempts 70 he made a
Bishop. His influence in Congress bas
come 70 he less than zero. His eudeav-
ors to keep the Metropolitan Church,
to the prejudice OF the general rule,
which limits a Methodist p eacher to
three years local occupation, has been
50 far allure that am told Bsbop
Simpson expressed hrs disgust, and Dr..
Tiffany, later incumbent, was 80 an.
nOyed by Newman's attempt to under
mine him that he compelled the True
tees, about one month ago, to put the
question to vote before the congregs-
ito q, and every soul 10 the house stood
upsnd pur fnsI quietus upon this
ambitious clerscsl demagogue. New
man then retrested into politics, and
begged from Presinent Grant the sine
cure Office called Inspector OF Consu-
lates. His wi was appended to the
appointment, under the name OF VI. z.
Newman, with an additional salary.
Such has been the career OF q man
with plentiful talents and no humility.
He l. Irrepressiole, and plenty Of
churches would be glad to get hrm; but
II IL respectfully submitted TO the Board
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