The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-04-16

ApEUpO1 W plhnVp hAinb beruOn on the
Transubstantiation or the Real Presence
in the Sacrament published yesterday,
we are reminded Of the story Of Queen
Elizabeth's confinement in the Tower Of
London, at the time she was visited by a
delegate from the Bishops who wanted to
prove her guilty Of helesy. Here is the
way she Is said to have defined her views
on the question discussed by Bishop Kahn;
"christ was the Word that spoke Il,
He took tie bread and broke Il,
And What the word did make II,
That ] believe and take H."
II is needless 10 say that the Queens
answer was as mystic as the mystery
which she was required to define, but II
was sufficient to protect her theological
status. Some divine has said that II will
not do TO reason about such mysteries
for, said be, treason Is that camel In the
story whose head once IN Ia followed
soon by all the rest Of his portentous
bulk" And Cardinal Manning recently
wrote, upon q kindred topic, that many
who would shrink from affirming that
reason is the sole fountain Of truth, and
that nothing is true which can not be
found in human consciousness or ELECTED
from II, nevertheless, maintain that rea-
son Is the measure Of truth, and that
nothing which is ibcomprehensible Ia
credible. They therefore undertake to
demonstrate the doctrine Of the trinity
and incarnation, which, when they have
been reduced to the measure Of reason,
cease 10 be the doctrines Of revelation"
And Cardinal Manning continues: "This
especially in the last century was the
FIRST momentum which carried many into
unbeIief Of revelation altogether"
Changing the subject somewhat, aud
yet keeping in the same line, we notice
that the scholarly Bible reviters now sit
ting at Westminster receive small appre.
citation for their work at Catholic hands.
at is not surprising" comments the
GaiAolic Reries, "that men who have IN
dertaken 10 reform the Church Of God,
should be willing to reform also the writ.
ten word Of God. Their ancestors were
fond Of this amusement, and the As Eng
lish scholars and ministers who spent
three years-from 1906 to 1609-in man.
u~iacturing a version that would be &c.
ceptable 10 their royal master, King
James !, did not hesitate to strike out the
whole OF seven books which are as can
onical as Genesis or the Gospels; to elm.
mate certain chapters or parts Of chapters
from other books; 10 falsify tue meaning
ofsentences which initiated against their
notions Of what the Holy Ghost should
have said, but which they did not daret 10
expursa,e altogether. The knowledgeot
these facts Is not generally diffused among
even intelligent Prolestants. II Is true
that the Bibliolatry which formerly pre-
vailed among them has, TO a great extent,
given place 10 confused doubts and con-
temptuous Indifference. An acute Fro.
testant writer has lately said that belief
in the plenary inspiration OF the Bible
existed at present only among the ignor-
ant and simple minded Of the sects. He
had the grace TO add that, so far as he
knew, this skepticism was not shared in
by the theologians and the learned among
The Catholics. In this opinion he was
quite correct. Every Catholic, learned
or simple, knows that the Bible ia the
word Of God; his ground for this belief,
however, has nothing TO do with literary
criticism, historical evidences, or private
opinion; be knows it simply because the
church tells him So"
The Washington annual conference OF
colored preachers has just closed Its SEES.
sions at S~taunton, Va, and Rev. q. b.
Burr, Of Southport, c., writes Of ii to the
Congregationslist. Mr.. Burr found the
preachers painfully well, dressed; there
we're over a hundred, shaded all the way
from pure African to the very border Of
white. He attended nearly all their
meetings, and feels thereby much encour.
aged for the colored people OF the South:
lie says: 1.-THE members were models oil
politeness 10 one another and 10 strang-
ers. Their grammar, Of course, was not
always correct; yet IL was surpri-
singly so, considering their scanty
opportunities for improvement; and
some OF them in their preaching
showed that they were born orators, and,
when fully aroused, they moved on like
rushing waters, carrying all before them"
A resolution was passed requiring candi'
dates for the ministry hereafter TO pass a
,tricl examination, as the book Of disci-
pline requires, and which includes ques.
lions in Buffers Analogy, Wayland's
Moral Science, etc, which they must be
able 10 answer. 0ae Of the foremost ad-
yocales Of It was an old preacher who,
when he entered the ministry, could
neither read, write nor figure. This con-
ference passed emphatic resolutions
against Sabbath.breakiDg and intemper-
aHce, one Of the latter pledging the menu
bers not 10 vote for any candidate for the
Legislature who 10 NOT ain favor Of pro-
hibition or at least local option"
DiSobedient ritualists and perverts to
Rome continue the feature Of Eoglish
church records. Rev. M~sckonochie, Of
St. Albans, Holborn, has now continued
for nearly three years his defiance OF the
decree Of Lord Penzance, who now an.
nounces that 1t Ia the eleventh hour, and
II Mackonochie disregards his monition
again a severe punishment will be In
aicted. This Ia supposed 10 mean incar-
ceration in the Middlesex house Of cor:
rection. Lord Penzance has pronounced
sentence OF suspension against Rev. John
Edwards, Of Pfestbury, for the same Of
fense. A candidate for home missionary
work was requested the other
day by the examiners Of the
society for the propagationo Of the Gospel
TO sipn an agreement TO withdraw from
The Holy Gross, II his bishop should re.
quest il, whereupon this confessional
society waxed wroth. Many Of the bish'
ops are discouraging the practice Of even
ing communion Ms most unseeml.". The
nor version TO Rome is announced Of Lord
Alexander Gordon Lenox, Prof. Clifford
Of London University lately known as a
disciple Of Huxley, two olergymen Of
81, Bartholomew Brighton, Charles
Walker (author Of "The Ritual Reason
WhynD and seven members Of the Uni
yersity Of Oxford. Rituaiism Is bearing
lis fruit; and is rapidly increasing, par.
ticularly in London.