The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-06-26

windows, collections Of Anticipated dust
and tho Isonian cobWsbS Of superatition.'
Rev. EMANUEL Van orden,-Whose re.
latiOns with the Presbyterian Board Of
Missions closed 40 abruptly, upon his
stating facts that implicated the Board in
a sort Of compromise with Rio Janeiro
steamship company officer, who had en-.
gagged in importing slAves,-is on his way
from successful soliciting tour in Eng.
land to establish mission at Rio Grande
do Sui, the farthest southern seaport In
Brazil and never before occupied by
Protestant labor. Bible and tract distri.
button, the continued publication Of his
Presbyterian paper in Portuguese and
the issue Of an English monthly paper,
will be items Of his work. Mr.. Van Or
den was charged, at the time Of his dill.
Guilty with the Board, Of being himself II
slaye'h holder, butthe Rio Jansiro mission.
airy who made the charge has apologized
and acknowledged the SANDER.
Alta recent meeting OF New York Bap.
fist ministers, one Of them said that the
way he got up sermon was to pick out a
text look at II, then climb on top Of 1t,
then 50 down on the other side and all
around II and under II, and then try to
go through It. "lf II is so hard" said he,
shat l can't go through It, dropit and
put II 10 soak. ! Tell you I've found
good many hard texts. l have had some
Of them A.soak for five or six years, and
they're not soft enough yet for me 10 so
through them"
The Ontario Congregational AssoCia'
ton have implicitly cleared themselves
of'pedobaptlsm as q distinctive tenet, by
declaring BHptists as truly Congrega-
tionalists as those who bear the name,
and inviting Baptist ministers and
churches 10 their fellowship. The Chris.
tiaH Union observes that this removes any
obstacle OF unity between them and the
Free Baptists, who number 10000 in New
York State, and hopes 1t is prophetic"
action. .
Rev. Henry MacDougall, Rector of St.
Michaels, Stamford, England, having
twice since Easter used in the Lords
supper "uniermented wine" has been pro-
hibited by the Bishop Of Lincoln from re.
peRting the practice. He did It in self
protection, for he has but just returned
10 his parish after l2 months suspen.
sion for incorporate habits. Evidently
he will have to resign.
Mr.. Moody has been invited by the
Chicago evangelical" sects to hold meet.
ings in the tabernacle there for a fort.
night or a month in September, as his
engagements may allow. The committee
charged with this invitation are also 10
negotiate with Joseph Cook for lectures
al the same time.
It's written in Scripture that we shall
not tempt the Lord our God. We very
much fear that this is precisely what Mr..
George Muller, Of "Orphanage" fame, is
doing. Mr.. Muller has allowed it to be
given out that "he willgladly visit Amer
lea, il the Lord indicates il TO he his will,
by uniting Christians in extending q call
to me (him) to spend the autumn and
| WtHASA III Nlo Sulkcu 6thters L Ms Wow
OF the matter might be all very we'll for
a pious man to take in private, but when
it comes to publishing it abroad, we sub
NIT thatthe sweetness Of the piely sours
into what is very much like cant.--7he
COHgrega'iONalII..
The Bapiia Htraifs editor stood the
other Sunday on the bank OF the raceway,
put his hOrse-tiner in the hands Of his
next friend, and the rest OF the story we
will let him tell in his own words: ;"As
partial result Of the series Of meetings
held at the Washington street church,
we immersed 40 persons in nine and
quarter minutes on Sunday, May o."
Which is ll.33 seconds for each baptism.
Independent.
The Independent says that the New
York and Brooklyn churches owe more
than S5000,000, so that they pay $780,
900 interest yearly. The Tribune report.
ed the Presbyterian church mortgages in
New York at S7O6, 900, but two Of those
churches, the Madison square and Phil.
lips, deny that they have membranes
Of that sort, which reduces the total to
about 100000.