The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-01-17

CONTINUES The strongholdot Uniyersalism
New York comes next, with 1870 parishes
embracing G,600 families, 5,4l2 member
oil l0l church organizations, 1926 church
buildings and other property worth
u ODD, llO above debt, and liz preachers,
then Ohio, with 5000 families, 4,5O.
members Of 81 churches, 81 preachers
and 30 church buildings, and SS79, Ole
above Indebtedness, There Is but one
church In California, San Francisco, and
now two years old, with 100 members and
two ministers; Oregon has 10 churches
with five ministers; Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Missouri, North Carolina and
indeed all the southern states are mis-.
sionary ground; not oil ofthem arc pro.
vided with laborers. In Virginia, there
isn't a single live parish, and Il seems odd
that the register should report at all that
church edifce in Richmond "not in use
by us" and that "resident preacher with.
out pastoral charge" In the old states,
rs well as the new, there 10 a noticeably
large proportion Of churches that do not
have preaching regularly, and, conse.
quently, Of ministers who have each sew
eral stations in charge. There are 10
women among the zoe preachers, the
Universalist being the farthest advanced
Of the churches IN respect OF the equal
right Of women in the ministry. The
college assets Of The denomination amour.
to 1883 900; Tufts college and divinity
school having $lOO0,OOO. ~
The English ritualist has at last been
found to set the laws at defiance and test
the power Of the public worship regula.
tion act by absolute contumacy. Mack.
onochie and Pelhani Dale both backed
down from this extreme position, but
Rev. Arthur Tooth, vicar Of 81. James,
Hatcham, has taken it with every posi-.
bic aggravation. He was summoned for
trial on charge Of using certain service
ad0rnments and Vestments which are
illegal in the church Of England, but re.
fused to obey the summons, and tlisobey.
ed the resulting orders to discontinue the
ohjectionablerraclices Then Lord Pen.
lance inhibited Tooth from performing
any clerical duty in the diocese of 70.
chester for three months, and the inhibi.
tion was posted OH the church door. A
large congregation assembled to see what
the vicar would do about it, and found
him defy the inhibition by carrying on the
service just MS before. Rev. Mackonochie
and other ritualist clergy were present,
and Tooth closed his sermon with n
speech about the Overwhelming sorrow
in which these doings might end" The
Bishop OF Rochester after that suspended
Tooth, turned oil his curate, and nominal.
ed Canon Gee, one OF his ChaplainS, to the
charge Of st. James. When the Bishops
appointee reached the church, the next
Sunday, Tooth and his church wardens,
with 4Oor so people, barred the way to
the chancel, and Tooth solemnly read
protest against the jurisdiction Of the
court which inhibited him, and forbade
Canon Gee 10 take any part in the ser
vice. The canon prudently retired from
the threatened physical force, and, that
day and the morrow, which was Christ
mas, Tooth had his own way. The
Christmas service was close copy
OF the Roman Catholic. There was
procession Of CroSs-bearers, AGO.
lytes, and choriSters, bearing ban
ners, one OF which was OF while MORE
antique edged with blue, and embroider-
ed with the words "Sancta Del genitrix;"
another represented the host and chalice,
and the others Christ and the Virgin
Mary. The sermon was on the Virgin,
and at the communion the sacramento
elements were elevated, while bells
were rung andlarge candles were
raised as high us the acolytes
could hold them, and the chan
Gel was filled with clouds Of incense.
Tooth, so far, was triumphant over both
civil and religious powers and there is
serious danger that the rediculOns BOBBY
will be afforded the martyrdom he SO
ostentatiousiy invites. We have dc.
scrihed his case thus at length rs an illus
tration Of the reality Of the difficulties
that bother England's state church.
The Interstate" Sunday school en-
campment, which includes in Its field
Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky,
Tennessee and West Virginia, and draws
likewise from the borders of adjacent
States and from Canada, has decided to
have an organ, called the Sunday School
Encampment Journal, published at Gin.
clnnati, and expects 10 pay for itself
with advertisements given because OF its
free distribution 10 some ten or twelve
thousand people monthly for seven
months. The association, was formed
last summer, under the inspiration OF
ChautauQua, and will hold encampments
next simmer ut the Lakeside ground
near Put.in-Bay, and near l.oveland, o.,
and perhaps in other places.
Those who accuse Mr.. Moody Of teach.
ing mere emotional religion will please
note these remarks in n Chicago meeting:
"There are not few round here, who
think they. have become Christians, but
in whose conversation have very little
faith. Where is that man who claims TO
have repentcd, and he has hasn't yet
paid his boartl-bili, when he could have
done il. He is llefrauding some poor
widow. and yet talks Of being disciple
Of Christi"
The Congregationalist is moved 10 re-
greet that Commodore Vanderbilt "did
not leave behind him some evidence in
dollars and cents OF the sincerity and
depth Of his faith. ann. -,r.-
To the ElilOr Of tho II. Y. Tribune:
You publish quite frequent reports Of
lectures and sermons upon the reconcile
alton Of the Bible witt, the claims Of mod
ern science. Will some Of these lecturers
or preachers be so kind us to take togeth.
er the two accounts which Moses gives Of
the Creation, that in Genesis and the one
in Exodus and show the authority for
using theword day ~ meaning (in the
same continued murative) sometimes u
calendar day and at others an indefinite
number Of years? READER.
The SPcr Cent Interest Law.
UNION Cry, o., Jan. l2, 1877.
To the EIlor Of tho Cincinnati GszCttc.l
The per cent interest law Of Ohio,
during the present close times, has the
OpnOsite effect from what was Originallv