The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-06-28


for BY the time the ArminiHn general
conference ihall again assemble r Per:
haps "the world OF Christian faith will
be seen by him as divided up into small.
er sections, and, instead Of speaking Of
two hemispheFes, the progressive man
will say that the creeds are only isllnds,
and that his Calyinismis oaly Bermuda
in the Wide sea-" Recurring 70 the hem
isphere smile, he deduces thus: SEAL
vinism declares that God for his mere
good pleasure foreordained some persons
70 wrath. Arminianism declares that he
did nothing of the kind. These aSser.
tons combine in the Christian system,
and the Methodists ought 10 Be proud d
uGeir half Of the combination"
Rev. Francis T. Washburn, in bis new
volume, answers for himself the question
whether the adaneed body Of the Units
rians, who cannot think Christ higher
tnan man, who have outgroWn Channings
phrases,-may rightly remain in that
fellowship, or whether it is their duty to
leave it. He says, Stay, not alone be.
cause Of sentimental association, but for
reasons, which he thus states: We hold
that there Is 4 substantial unity Of faith
between US and the Unitarian fathers.
Like them, we believe in the absolute
unity Of God, in the headshlp Of Jesus
Christ, in the supreme value Of the Bible
as containing Ibe gospel Of Christ, and Is
as showing Us its historical preparation
and is frat fruits. We believe, like
them, in the outward church IS an In
stitution for continuing and unfolding TO
their universal ends the thought and lie
OF Christ. And We believe, like them,
in religious liberty, in leaning ever to-
ward the largest possible religious fellow
shin, letting any one join us who wants
to Join us; nay, going into the highways
and by-ways, and compelling them to
come in, even at the risk Of getting into
strange company. We stand, Is our
fathers did, upon the outskirts Of the
Christian Church in loose array, each
seemingly for himself, with little appar-
emit order or leadership, yet at our.posts,
an essential part Of the great army.
Mr.. Gladstone has an unusually inter
esting paper in the current Contemporary
Review on the Courses Of Religious
Thought-au outline chart" of church
teaching, commenting on and criticising
all the more prominent aspects otortho-
dox and heterodox thought We pub.
lished an extract from this article in
recent number Of the ISTELLIGEsoER.
He Classics the schools or systems into
Eve: ~ The uItramontaine, who accept
the papal monarchy; (2) the historical,
who, rejecting papal monarchy, beievein
the visibility Of the church; (3) the Prot
estant evangelical, who reject both the
previous, but believe in the trinity and
The incarnation; ~ the theistic, who, dis.
carding all known expressions Of dogma,
yet believe in moral governor of the
universe, and in a state Of probation for
man; (5) the negative school, including
skeptics, atheists, pantheists, material.
lists, and all who deny or decline TO rec
ognize the reign Of a moral providence
and the existence OF state Of discipline
or probation. Mr.. Gladstone promises,
in future paper; TO discuss the question
how and why these various currents Of
thought have been "put into their pres
ent sharp and unordered motion"
The Reformed Episcopal Church still
advances; parishes are continually organ.
izing, though because Of the hard times
churches are not built. Three self.sus-
tanning churches were formed last month
in Charleston, S. c., Cumberland Nd, and
Digby, n. s.; 12 churches are established
among the South Carolina freedmen. The
annual council is TO meet in Ottawa, Cana
da, July l2. Bishop Cummin's remarks
before the Methodist Conference, that all
that was good in him came from the Meth
odists, is bringing its reward; the Metho-
dist papers are patting him on the back,
and the Episcopal papers are INDUCING
in ecclesiastical sneers, and inquiriDg il
he means to convey his new church over
bodily, one Of these days, to his first love.
Bishop f. G. Andrews. OF the Metho-
dist Church, has gone to Europe to pre-
side over the conferences in Europe and
Asia. There are two conferences in In
dia, one meeting at Moradabat, the other
| =. por,ka, po,k have ,ka;, .nnuaI "a,
a. BOMBAY: ho'n nave 1neif ahh9ai seS-
SION IN January. AZ the iut conference
mere were reported 90 missionaries,
a%stIcom .ingIs ~ons s sng S t .s"gn
era Zeuans WORKERS and physieians. The
total membership (comm1nicants and
probationary is $500, Of whom 1850 are
Hindus. Great prominence is given TO
me saooath sehoot WORK, IN connection
WIN "hlch e,o-4 scholars nave Deen gam
cred, and number Of them converted,
during the past year.
There was a committee appointed and
a fund started for the expense of A reyi.
,v,I N he conducted nv Mr Moody a. a
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ns ny. IT, n. SH * SSn .s,u me' ~. .Ls'
49, s1E IN gu go S to~ Sav sns
T %s;os. Sns;,s II. Wne5S N re..s ng,h
Ion:Iy IN reTengs for the rs!;vnIist's eT.
preston Of his aisapproyal Of he LOO.
The old charges that Moody makes
money out OF It are revived and rein-
forced. The Sunday School 1TglEs indig-
nantly retntes them, and TO the last, that
he received $500 in Augusta, Ga, says
that "in all his southern tour, Mr.. Moody
| paid his own expenses, and received moth