The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-05


10 quicken the faith and to encourage the
most vigorous exertions till the field be
won"
soME one will vet be after the policy Of
The Methodist Episcopal Church with o
sharp stick, on account OF the tendency |
towards q quasi ecclesiastical gerrymand. |
ering. The next general Conference will |
show considerably increased list OF dele.
gates, by reason OF the creation OF several
Conferences, each OF which Is |
entitled to representation oil two. In
this way the vote OF the six New England
with membership Of lOO,'
900, will be offset by that OF 10 Of these
little ones, with one.tenth the ministerial
and one fourth the lay strength. When
this results from the legitimate growth Of
the work, critics can hold their peace,
but when Il savors Of fixed up affair,
will soon DO found to kick
Springfield republican.
VIZ referred in recent number Of the
ISrRLLIGENCER 10 the letter OF Boston
clergyman to the Catholic Archbishop OF
New England on the subject Of church
gambling. The clergyman was the Rev.
Henry Morgan, and he addresses himself
to Archbishop Williams thus:
~ lectured against faro banks and gam.
blers. have list Of the chief gaming
bells OF Boston and the names OF the pro.
prietors. The people demand that these
Infamous dens DO suppressed, but nothing
can be done until the church Joins hand
in hand in the work OF reform. Dark,
dark be the day when Christianity is ban.
ished! Woe. woe! TO New England II
the church loses hold. The church is
already waning. 1t will altogether lose
It's hold il it encourages gambling. Now
is your opportunity. You have more re.
iormatory power vested In you than 500
other Clergymen. You are Archbishop
Of all New England. You say Church
lotteries shall cease, and they cease"
BIsnop HENDRIcKsox Roman Catholic),
in a sermon in Providence, R. l., last
Sunday, said Of the anti-reut movement
in Ireland:
"To subscribe money TO enable tho PEG.
pie to become revenged on the landlords
would only lead to fearful trouble and
perhaps the hanging OF number OF peo-
pie. These agrarian Outrages do no good,
but, on the contrary, tend to bring the
perpetrators into condemnation BY all
other nations, and iasten the chains OF
oppression tighter around the people. To
stand behind the hedge and blow out the
brains OF some obnoxious landlord is
most wicked and leads to terrible evils.
Some there are who ask for money to
plunge the country into revolution, money
to buy ships and prey upon English COM
merce, to buy gunpOwder and dynamite
to blow up barracks, but the people should
take heed and discountenance all such
revolutionary schemes. Ireland will never
be made free from this side OF the water.
II asked to subscribe 10 keep up peace
full agitation and send men OF the right
stamp TO parliament, that is right, reason
able and proper, but dsn't give your
money 10 every one who comes shouting
for Ireland, and processes all sorts Of i'm.
practicable measures"
TIE Rev. H.:R. Haweis, preaching re.
Gently at st. Jamess, MArylebone London,
on the Legitimate Amusements oil
Society" said that tho Greeks knew some.
thing about human nature, and that they
would not have invented one Muse fol
dancing and six for poetry and tho drama
If there was not something human and
fundamental about these things, which
neither cynic, seCtNrian nor asCetic could
permanently crush. Mr. Vein, in Mr..
Haweis's opinion, however, was wrong
when, in his papCrat the Social Science
Congress, he said that the Stage needed
no reform. The church, the stage and
the bar, and everything else, was in con.
slant and urgent need OF reform. Socially
We had reached 9. critical period in the
history OF the stage. \ new public
opinion was forming; prelates and
play actors shook hands; and the
church, which in past ages had
been more or less rival OF the stage, was
preparing for something like healthy
cooperation with it. Itlay with the pub
lie and the stage managers whether we
should add the theatres 10 our list OF ele.
waiting as well as reCreatiug influences.
The former should give the actor chance
OF living honorably, and not tempt them
to cater for the beasts OF the people BY
leaving them nothing but beasts to cater
for; while the latter ought to see that those
persons in their employ, especially the
lOw-salaried and unprotected girls, we're
not exposed TO temptation, either in the
greenroom or Hobbies, or when coming TO
and going from the house. On the
same day, at the Congregational Church,
Chaplain, London, the Rev. ]. G.
Rogers, preaching on "'rhe Drama
and the Christian Church" took an en-.
tirely different view OF the question
maintaining that the hope of reform
through Christian patronage was sheer de.
fusion, while the danger 10 the Christian
patron was swift aud inevitable. The
whole notion was QuixotiC and perilous
in the last degree. The one aim and pur.
pose OF the theatre was amusement, and
the one aim and purpose OF every true
Christian was the advancement OF Gods
glory in the redemption OF Il lost race. Be.
tween the two there was no possible con.
Meeting link, and any attempt at their re.
Cancellation could have but one issue
loss OF spiritual force and the lowering Of
the whole religious tone.
They were proving the Immortality Of
the soul at Paine Hall in Boston day or
two ago with slate, just as it was proved
in the Eddy house at Chittcnden, VT,
with two shawls and some towels, or as it
demonstrated any winter evening in one
seance and another by hitting fellow
over the head with guitar in the dark,
all irrefragablc proofs. Itall comes to the
same thing. 1t did in this caso-to an ex.
posture. W. Harry Powell was the man,
and he was proving the blessings OF the
hereafter by writing nonsense with the
end Of his finger on slate. The proof
was Completc, You could sne II rhoro