The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-12-31

Religious DFtft and Dlseusstou.
A LARoE increase Of communicates is
reported sfor the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the.last year. Thew num-
beris now Slg,7ls, with As dioceses, 10
missionary Jurisdictions, 6S bishops, $500
elergymen, and 2,90o parishes. THE total
OF contributions last year was s5,7ss,266.
The Literary Chu7chman speaking Of the
relations OF the Anglican Church to the
Protestant Episcopal Church in this coun-
try, says;a,,.,,.,s,.,,,.s..lz,...,as-.,.,srzzl
"At present any English clergyman Is at
liberty to make q raid into what he Is
pleased to call the States, and seize upon
good Giving while the American clergy
man, upon crossing the Atlantic, becomes
nonenuty, and cannot legally preach
two sermons without getting two licenses.
WE note the fact for the benefit OF our
West Virginia Legislature, soon to assem-
bic, that the members OF the Vermont
Legislature hold prayer meeting every
morning. and they are said to be not only
well attended, but full OF life and interest.
The meetings are held in the large agricul-
tural committee room, and cordial well
come Is extended to all. Al some Of the
meetings more than one hundred are
present. 3-Fsu = .ssatsr ps-ss..
TIE Rev. Or. ]. T. I.eitwich, pastor Of
the Central Presbyterian Church, Atlanta,
the session OF which suspended Mr.. Block
for giving dancing party, has resigned.
DR.. Leftwich. defended the action Of the
session and presbytery before the Synod
of Georgia, but was beaten. He resigns
because "thcre is now such condition OF
things in the church courts as to rerder it
impossible to exercise and enforce discip-
line on worldly amusements.'
PRoF. EZRA ABBOTT, the only Unitarian
among the American revisers OF the Bible,
says in refutation Of several mean sectar-
ian innuendoes: 1.-THE air of the revision
room has never vet been fouled with the
smoke OF sectarian strife. I believe there
was never company Of scholars engaged
II -
more conscientious endeayor. on the part
OF each member to decide all questions OF
reading and rendering honestly, in simple
accordance with established principles OF
criticism and Interpretation, without re-
gard 70 any supposed dogmatic interest
| In the sacred work TO which they have
been called they have felt, believe, that
any lower aim than the simple endeaYor
TO ascertain and express the genuine text
and the real meaning was utterly un-
worthy; mot walking in craitiness, nor
handling the word OF God deceitfully, but
by manifestation OF the truth commencing
themselves to every mans conscience in the
sight OF God
AT the usual Friday night prayer meet
ing in Plymouth church, Brooklyn, last
night, Mr.. Beecher said: "You all know
the storm have passed through; and it
often happens when there has been storm
that the sky will not clear Immediately.
1t keeps lowering, after the tempest has
spent its force, must say in reference to
that matter, however, that during all my
travels in the year that Is past-and have
been in nearly every northern and west
ern State-I have met with nothing but
kindness and consideration. Indeed,
have been everywhere received with more
kindness and tenderness than ever was
before. 1t is very little to you, 1know;
but the opinion OF my fellowmen is agreat
deal to me; and I feel grateful that God has
sustained me through such great trials and
brought me at last into haven OF peace.
For although am Of that build, | think
that could behappy and pursue my work
pleasantly, with the bad opinion OF all
about me, il my conscience only was right;
yet the good report Of men about me is
very precious. You who have been with
me in the WILDERNESS and in the Red Sea
will be glad with me to know and feel that
the sky has thoroughly cleared once morei
for though Pharaoh is not dead yet, i'm
agine that most Of his horses have been
overturned. his host overwhelmed by the
waters and bis munitions Of war destroy
ed
"AS 0LD CITRATE" writes TO the London
Times that he has been in orders since
1856. He took honors in Hebrew and is
learned in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, German,
French, Spanish, Modern Greek, Welsh
and mathematics. He thinks that he ia
an eloquent preacher, and he adduces testi.
monials and facts as to schools established,
ETC., in the eight curacies he has held, to
show that he works hard. One celebrated
man" thanked him for sermon he
preached, and promised to ask Bishop
WHEREFORE for living for him, but he
never got it. He petitioned the Arch.
bishop Of Canterbury to appoint him to
the S, 500 living on the death'oi his last
vicar, but Il was given TO clergyman who
already held a $, 900 post in the Anglican
Church. He has been married twelve
years and has nine children; his wife
works like galley.slavc from 6 a. NJ. to II
P. ", and is famous manager. Nevcrthe-
less since the day. he was married he hos
been in daily expectation Of the work.
house, from which he has emily been saved
By gifts from the charitable or assistance
from benevolent societies. Strangers have
sent coal and meat to his house, and some.
times E5.notcs; he wears secondhand
clothing and most Of his children the cast.
of clothing OF others. All he wants Is a
parish OF four thousand souls, and he de.
clares that he will get church built and