The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-08-14
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KcligIous Drllt and DIscu.slon

Religious britt and Discussion.
A "low church Methodist bewail4 in
the Independent the growing degeneracy
Of the sect in these latter days: TAKE,
for instance" he says, "the seating Of the
people at church. In the oIden time men
and women sat in different parts Of the
house. Hence, young people who came
to church in the fear OF the Lord and love
Of flirting were unable TO interline the
hymn.books and 'Snuggle up duing
strmon.time, rs Is now the case at even.
ing service. Again, there were no rented
pews, but rich and poor sat together, and
the Lord was the maker Of them alp;
whereas now the rich man Is selt.made,
and is, undoubtedly, n superior piece Of
workmanship, and rs such sits apart.
Then how is il in the matter OF costly
clothes? Are Methodist congregations
more plainy clad than others? II so, l
have not been able to perceive it, nor has
my wife, who, Of course, is a much
better judge. Again, how is it about
the rass.meeting? Is this now observed ?
Very little, reply. Out Of 100 members
probably 40 or 80 never attend; u few
others 60 once in u while; about 20 or %
attend regularly. wonder what Wesley
would have said to such u state Of things.
Or take the restrictive ruleS about dan.
cling, theater.going, card.playing, reading
Sunday papers, reading novels, etc.,--are
these observed? They are by some; but
breaches OF them are not made matter
ri discipline. Ii a city Methodist church
contains 800 members, it is safe to pre-.
sumo that there are so who sometimes go
to the theatct, 20 who play cards, 20 or 80
that dance in private parties. But these
points, alter all, are not important, ex.
cepl in 20 far as il is an injury to any
man to stand up and say, All this
.teadilstly believe when in his heart he
believes no such thing. And it ia very
evident that all those parts Of the restric.
tive rules relating to dress are completely
dead letter, while those relating 10
lmusemenIs have not 1.-THE OF the au.
thority they had so years ago."
DR.. MeCosh, Of Princeton, has got him.
self into something Of Il hornets nest
with the brethren Of this country by his
Of hand talk ut the great Edinburgh
Presbyterian council, in which he criti-
ci.cd American preaching, and tried to
explain why it was getting so fashionable
on this side OF the water to call old.
country clergymen TO our pulpits.
within the last few years." he said,
there has been in America u great
change in the taste for preaching. Scot.
lanl-and when say Scotland | mean
lister which is n province Of Scotland
has sent over preachers who are holding
the highest places in America, because
they brought with them biblical preach
ing. There is a New England style
Of preaching, which consists in beginn.
ing oil Monday morning, meditat-
ing two or three days, then writing
beautiful thing, and, when Saturday
comes, looking for text, and having got
a text, preaching it, to be admired by
great many ladies and gentlemen as rich
thought, beautifully expressed. That
style Of preaching prevailed for time;
but now people have become thoroughly
sick Of it. " This is the true cause
why there is a desire to have old country
preachers, who preach the Word in sim.
plicity and power, dividing their sermons
into heads, and introducing some Of the
old phrases, mingling thought with Scrip.
ture. In New York and all over America
that il the style Of preaching that is tax.
Inc. onl Ikntr An,artnnN k,nVb,aY, nrn
learning TO preach in that way, so that
they will soon beat the Scotch preachers
and turn them out"
The Mormon Ward Sunday schools OF
Salt Lake City, numbering 1900 chill.
dren, had jubilee in the great Mormon
temple on recent Sunday. There were
the customary decorations Of evergreen,
with such notices IA these intersperscd:
"UINh's beat CrOp,""Hail to our Chief"
brigham Young, the Lion Of the Lord"
etc. The prophet himself was the cen.
trail figure Of this juvenile demonStra.
ton, and taking for his text "Hhese little
children-why were they born here?" told
the story Of Mormonism aud its many
prosecutions at the hands Of ungodIy
n .'t.',. buI VINO are lnese men ,na'
are 'eeSing 10 Drive Us OUT asked Brig
n'"l' ! Il IelI you, lie continued "they
arg monsters, m'hislets oil justice, minis
'rr' OF me lawIthe BOSOM companion.
" gamblers hleVes, o'acEleSs and
E'Mp, w'ih oen companions oil tho same
CHARACTER. Aver tnlS delivery o. bill:
ins'SSte' we've oil 'Iness llttlc children"
''nN' IN hymn WhicG seemed % IN
tte"'e'y granny sne prophets vanity, as
ne gave me sitlG!e'! aHehton 10 una
Vnoru'' p"t!1cu.ariy, III T"'c" Inc ehore
|'P o' ch''uten lo'"eu'-
G1AS and join the army, the army q the Lori,
SS'm i our ia Sapeo oSl We THY a. hl' woti
Bat Win such leader we arr sure re- 10 win. ''
The Chicago Interior triumphantlv
noin,, ont ,hnt ,ho r,,an, r;o,nrs Ionon.
STATIONS in that city made comfortinrly
apparcn, tho ln,op. Calvin ism in Ibt
breasts of s citizens, @C.Iyini,m alwsy,
comes out strong" ii says, "as an autidolt
when the devil is particularly conspicu
Gus and energetic. We have not heard q
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