The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-06-26
acknowledgement
TENDENCIES OFTMETIMES.
religious Drift and Discussion.

Religious Drift and Discussion.
The Btaxton County Mountaineer ia
noticing sermon by Rev. A. X. Arthur,
we'll known hereabOuts, intimates that he
/. failing in mental power.
In Bishop Clark's review Of his Euro.
pean official tour made before the Pro.
testant Episcopal Convention in Rhode
Island, he enlarged upon the importance
and value Of the Episcopal Churches in
Europe, both TO the great number Of
Americana abroad and to the people
around them. Much charitable and mis-
sionary work is done; in Paris, for in
stance, there is woman's mission in
which ladies devote themselves 10 teach.
ing the ignorant and dangerous Glasses,
Of both sexes, TO whom the gospel story
is as new and strange as il they had been
born and bred in pagan land. The
American congregation in Paris is so
large that a spacious and elegant
church Is to be erected az soon as posi-.
BILE. The church in Rome he declared
ian ornament even to the city Of Rome"
The Bishop preached in the American
Church at Geneva, where, also, new
ediGce will be built If they can beg the
money for it. At LeipSic the English and
Americans are united congregation, and
ready to receive clergyman from either
branch Of the Church. They worship in
Lutheran Church, after the early ser.
vice. The other American churches for
which he preached are Lausanne, Dres-
den, Venice lin the United States Con.
surs house,, Florence and Nice; he also
preached in Westminster Abbey by inyi.
tation Of Dean Stanley, in the Cathedral
at Chester, by Dean Howard's invitation,
and in other English churches; and he
seems to have felt particularly pleased
and proud at the recognition he got from
the clergy Of the establishment.
The conservation OF Rev. DR.. Thomas
II. Gregg "a missionary bishop for Eng
land Of the Reformed Episcopal Church
occurred at Rev. DR.. Sabine's Church on
Madison avenue and 5Sth street, New
York, Wednesday. Bishop Fallows Off.
ciated, assisted by Bishop Cheney, who
preached the sermon, in which he said
THE text being Psalm 72:l6) Of the late
senior bishop: mo greater or grander
act has adorned the pages Of history since
the time OF Luther, than the act Of Bishop
Cummins in renouncing the hOnors and
emOlumens OF the Protestant Episcopal
Church to strew this handful OF corn"
Bishop Gregg ia not yet SO, and has been
a prominent low churchman for some
time, and on the late decision in the
Ridsdale case, which the reiOrmers hold
virtually sanctioned the idea of the real
presence, he resigned hiB Birmingham
gicarage, formally left the old church,
and applied 10 the Reformed Episcopal
Church for appointment as u presbyter.
lie was considered too important an &c.
QUESTION to use in that ordinary way,
and is now made bishop to plant the new
church in England. The first parish will
be at Malvern, near London, where 800
seceders from the establishment had al.
ready called DR.. Gregg. The Free Church
Of England hasreceiyed recognition from
the Reformed Episcopal Church, but its
government is q mixture OF Congresa'
lsOnAlism, Rresbyterianism and EPisco.
pacy, and It's Improvement on the old
church ia not considered satisfactory.
The scientists thought Of God, as con.
trasted with that Of the average church.
goer, is roughly expressed by Prof. You
mans in the July number Of the popular
Science Monthly" TsiL" he asks, "ra.
IiOnal to expect that the man OF develop.
ed intellect, whose life il spent in the all.
absorbing study Of that mighty and eyer.
expanding system OF truth that is cut
bodied in the method OF nature, will
form the same idea OF God as the igno.
rant blockhead who knows and cares
nothing for these things, who is incapabIe
Of reflection or insight, and wkopaSslye-
ly accepts the narrow notions upon this
subject that other people put into his
head2 Az regards The Divine govern
ment Of the world, two such contrasted
minds can hardly have anything in, com.
mon. 'As man thinketh, 80 is he;' and
l'amln ia. 10 will he think. II he is
ignorant and stupid, his contemplation Of
divine thinga will reflect his own low
limitations. He will cling to groveling
anthropomorphism and conceive Of the
Deity IA man like himself, only greater
and more powerful, and as chiefly inter.
ested in the things that he is interested in.
II he delights in the pious excitement Of
'reViyals, he will think Of the Almighty
as the patron Of Camp.meetiugl, and as
watching IRON on high with special soil.
citude the doings OF Moody aud Sankey
in Boston. 1t Is superluous to say thai
men who look upon the universe ~ scienCy
has disclosed it cannot much sympathi:e
With this view Of the Deity and all that
it implies. The profound student Of
science will rise to more spiritualized
and abstract ideal Of the Divine nature
or will be so oppressed with conscious
ness OF the Infnity as to reverently re,
rain from all attempts 10 grasp, and
FORMULATE, and limit the nature Of thai
which y past finding out which il un
speaEable and unihinEaSlc. Religious
feeling may be awakened in both lhost
mindS; but its inspiration and it, accom-
paniments will as wide asundcr as III,
poles"
. Rev. Mr.. GLADDEN. has word to say i,
the Alliance about Smashing churcI
windows" He quotes the udjuration o
Dr., George Putnam to Theadore Parker
to go outside, it he wanted to do an,
.mashing,-for the purpose Of question
ing the wisdom OF turning out person
with such penehant. Because in III
first place the beauty Of the windows seei
from within might withhold his hand
though seen from without they are blot
and dobs; and, in the second place, brick
bats are handler outside the church thai
inside. We need not copy the obviop
Interpretation Of the parable, bat MI
GLADDEN. intinates further that some o
those who are accused OF making hole
IN the windows may have merely let
little lightthrough BY cleaning them, ant
be asks the conservative brethren
Would j not be we'll for them to e8
anime, little more carefully, the condi