The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-02-07
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Editors Of the lntelllgenees:
4 Your article Of yesterday 18th inst.)
seems % have stirred up quite o cortmo.
ton IN the community heologically-at
tho dtscorery that a very learned member
OF the Protestant Episcopal General Con-
vention, had, too years ago, boldly uttered
q truth as old and undisputed as Christi.
anity, viz; Z" myself adore Christ, pres.
emit In the elements, under the form Of
bread and wine"
Mind you, he says he ddores ClrtSt-
not the clements, as many hastily conclude.
Some enormously adore Him "undcr the
form Of" images, pictures, and the like {;
others adore abstractly or ideally, and still
others adore Him in His works-in
nature. Not so the Rev. Dr., who adores
under the divinSly appointed form. p q
Venerable and cardinal as Is this truth,
We venture the assertion that there were
not five protesting Evangelical" Christ
ians In the city who dared face his ridi.
cullug neighbor and "Btand up Tor the
truth |" although all these, DO they Metho-
dist, Presbyterian, Baptist &cs either
believe this truth, Or else lay themselves
liable 10 the imputation Of non-belief in
the Gospel, lin their administration Of the
Lords Supper. e. t "a
l"7Ats ID my bOdy"-St. Mat, xxvl-28.
wills is my 6aly,"-St. Mark, xiy-29.
Willis is my bOdy,"-St. Luke, 'xxii-19.
Who, we ask, uttered MeSe tcOrdSp And
who can be found bold enough to have
denied them, until modern mdtefa!isn
showed heway2 "a g, ~ ~ ii
Rome first materiali@d the Holy E1cha.
rist, and Geneva-hGr antlpode but ally
too soon fell In her wake. And only the
unchanged and truly Catholic branches Of
the Church-the Anglican and Oriental
Communions, ARE left TO fight alone Tor
the verify Of Apostolic truth, the spiritual
and real "body'h
He who created all, and astonished the |
world with miracles, could lie not per.
io:m d perpetual miracleY
Is our SouI-which we cannot touch or |
smell or taste-less real because spiritual? |
ls spirit less real than matter, ID iJssphere!
What Is our faith for but 10 discern what
Is commanded, beyond the reach Of our
natural vision Small mountains" would |
faith less than this remove"
Many seem 10 forget that the Church
was made perfect in the beginning, under
the direction Of the Holy Spirit; and to
suppose that all wisdom was in allowance
until the 10th century-and that the
Church, like any human institution, may
be tinkered and patched up 10 suit the
private opinions Of each.
How few try 10 make themselves be.
lieve what Is commanded-thus growing
more and more like the Divine Exemp.
lar-but rather constantly strive 10 bring
God and his holy church down 10 the
mould Of their little private judgments
and beliefs. In other words, the Church 10
them Is what they each make her, instead
Of their striving 10 be fashioned in heart
and mind like unto the beauty and sym.
metry- OF her Divine Head.
We desire toas our Evangelical broth.
or, which he prefers for his sons aud
daughters--the too much faith of the
abused Ritualist, or the indiBSrentism
with, which the termination OF the seeds
OF Calvinism has overspread all Western
Europe and our own country with count.
less sects OF hali-belef or positive unbe.
lief? II one must err--as all must, being
human--we prefer the super 10 the non.
Again, why IS it that SO many of our
Presbyterian and other brethren seem so
willing 10 stir up strife in the Church,
rather than aid in healing the wound n
For II The christian world, divided into
sects, is the better phase Of Christendom,
surely all should strive that each sect
should be at peace and harmony in itself.
And why is it that when the Church,
deviatcs even in the slightest degree from
her usual and beaten path, there should
be raised such hue and cry? 1t must
be that all the sect world recognizing in
her the "Church Of the Living God, the
Pillar and Ground OF the TRUTH" each
acknowledges the TACT that were she to 90
astray, there would be no guide in mat
tiers OF faith. So all are watching with q
jealous eye, and give her q goad back
into the old ruL Ut even. the slightest in
cipient approach to false step. Why,
bless your hearts, Messrs.. Editors, aiPres.
bytOrian or other minister might Tread
his prayers out Of book" wear "lull
canonicals," go into his pulpit on his
hands and knees If you'please, or utter
the long forgotten doctrine OF election"
or indulge in "old.iashioned Methodism,n1
or express belief in "transubstantiation,"
or what not, and il would scarcely be
heard OF, even in thenext town, orin the :
local secular paper. But if churchman ,
fails to dot an or cross a t, the ears of !
the whole land are made 10 Jingle with !
sounding brass and tinkling cymbal,"
thus paying the Church an unintended
compliment, as the ruling and paramount
element in English.speaking Chlistendom
We write in the capacity Of one zeal
Gus for truth, and that many more may
strive to follow in whatever paths she
NAV lead I,r,.,