The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-03-13
acknowledgement:
Religious DRIFT and Discussion,

Riley:
Raw. ]. McKendree Rilcys sermon last
night on Cor, 10, 80, "I.ct us eat and
drink, for tomorrow we die, was grand
discourse, and was listened to by dense.
ly packed house. He abundantly sus.
tanned his reputation as one OF our most
effective pulpit orators.
Sectarian antagonisms are getting &C.
tive in pulpit and'presS, and the CIriaian
Register predicts from the Moody preach.
ing n "harvest OF hereay" in New Eng.
land. The UniversaIists and Unitarians
continue to spend a deal OF time with
Cook and Moody, and the Uniuersalist is
busy proving that the formers doctrine
Of eternal sin involves that OF annihila.
ton. This journal maintains its temper
Of charity toward Moody, and, this week,
says that, Notwithstanding his bad theol.
ogy, ito doubt that good results will fol.
low (hls preaChing) is to doubt Chris.
tianity ITSELF" Spontaneous revival in
terest docs not seem to exist among the
Boston churches, but there are some
apasmodic attempts at manufacture, and
by the worst OF means, the holding of
children's meetings. This is the shock
ing Hammond patent, and Hammond
himself is using that and his other excite
ments in Syracuse, having just narrowed
up Terre Haute. Mr.. Moody has not
been guilty OF such IN outrage hereto.
fore, and perhaps has no responsibility
for this, but allusion has been made in
the tabernacle to the conversion Of "a
member OF the infant class" Reyivais in
aquiet way, but with large ingatherings
TO the churches, arc reported in many
eastern New England towns; in few Of
Western Massachusetts, and in Ohio, In
diana, Wisconsin and few other West
ern States.
James Freeman Clarke has given 0.
B. rockingham rather better than he
sent. Mr.. rockingham having init.
mated that the liberal clergymen who
partoOk Of the Lords Supper in Philips
Brooks new church were weakly false to
their beliefin doing so, Mr.. Clarke re.
plies that he and those who stood in
communion with Phillips Brooks and
his friends sacrificed no principle in so
doing. "My face" he answers to Mr..
Frothingham's queries, "tras toward the
light, for it saw in this act Of my friend
faint CLEAN Of the rosy dawn OF univer-
sal brotherhood which is to come. Twas
looking forward to better day, OF
which this was one prophecy. The cir
cult OF my fold was enlarged in that mo.
ment, for felt inwardly at one with all
liberal Christians outside OF so.Called
liberal Christianity. Phillips Brooks
and were moving in the same direction,
for we were both moving toward ground
Of higher union, the union OF spirit, in
which all differences Of the letter disap-
pear" Mr.. Frothinghamb reply, in the
Inquirer Of this week, amounts simply to
this: He doesn't doubt Mr.. Clarke's
sincerity, but he never could have done
the same thing himself, even in his most
Unitarian days.
Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake made the
recent trial in Newark, OF Presbyterian
minister who let women speak in his pull
pit, the occasion Of review OF the Bible
authority on this vexed question, and
found, Of course, that the Bible is entire
ly in favor Of woman's equality with
man. In relation to Paups direction,
"Let your women keep silence in the
churches" she says: "The only sensible
view to be taken is that ST.. Paul really
favored the public preaching OF women,
rs indicated by his advising that their
heads should be covered when prophecy
ing that is, preaching--and that, in this
special injunction Of silence, he simply
intended to rebuke an unruly custom
then existing among the Corinthians,
who were in the habit Of interrupting
public teachers by untimely questions.
Let them ask OF their husbands at home,
he says, indicating simply that our zeal
ous converts, instead OF demanding ex-
plantations Of the new doctrines from the
preacher during bis discourse, should
rather discuss the matter in private"
But Mr.. Blake thinks that wives nova.
days should be badly of for knowledge on
religious matters, il they asked their
husbands at home"
Mrs. Phoebe lIanaford's opposition
Universalist church in Jersey City is to
hold Its meetings in hall, next door to
the house OF worship from whose pulpit
she has been dismissed. The reverend
lady's course in fomcnting this dissention
is the subject OF severe structures, which
she must deserve il she is correctly re-.
ported US saying, in the discussion about
the hall, that there was no reason why
they shouldn't be next door to their for
ner brothers and sisters; "and II the sight
OF our assembling for worship disturbs
them we can't help 1t, and it is only in
accordance with Gods laws, which al.
ways punish the wicked" The UnircrSaliS'
tells her plainly that her movement will
fail, and that she knows it. "What, then,
can she do? She can, possibly, destroy
the old church. Is that an object worthy
OF her ambition? We do not hesitate 10
say that she must know this is the only
probable result, and she is, therefore, un-
avoidably chargeable with the intention
oil tearing down that which she has for
three year protested to be trying to
build up. This is most reprehensible
wickedness.'
The pronouncement of the frce.think.
ing Jew, Prof. Adler, before his new
creedless society in New York, against
circumcision, meets with general con.
demnation from Jews. His explanation
is that the "rite of the covenant Is a
legacy from the days when men were
wont 10 mutilate the body, TO show tina,
they really belonged to God, and were al.
lowed to live only by his mercy; and he
declared its continuance barbarous SUI
perstition unworthy the name Of religion
The Jewish Messenger recommends rs the
Jewish policy toward Adler severe let
ting alone, and intimates that those who
having themselves broken the laws that
tnelr fathers obeycd and the creeds that
they loved, are now eager to find excuse
and pardon at the lips Of their melliau.
Tooth, the ritualist Hmarlyr," has been
let out OF Jail by Lord Penrance, on the
ground that the bishops nominee to the
curacy Of Hatcham was no longer OBJ