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

SShV0I WOIR UT nc WOutu CiVSt tue SCup'
and let the children go elsewhere.
ARRANGEMENTS are making fora Natior
al Methodist Episcopal camp meeting q
Old Orchard Beach, N. H., in July, 1881
which will be gathering OF all prominer
Methodists in this country. The bishop
OF that church have been invited to pal
tiCipate.
IN his new course Of Monday lectures
Joseph Cook has set himself to discove
what comfort culture alone can give 10
the future life. His first lecture on "Afte
Emerson, What" was intended to shoN
that the Concord sage has been forced in
to theism by the unsatisfactory results Q
the pantheism with which he began hi
literary career.
The Rev. DR.. Kirkus, rector Of oneof tn
Protestant Episcopal churches Of Baltimor
having recently asked for contributions o
gold, silver and jewelry" from the con
gregatlon for the manufacture OF new
communion service, met with responsl
in the shape Of half bushel OF silver plat,
and jewelry. Among the trinkets was
diamond ring valued at ST., 100.
The craze for monuments has strucl
Elmira, where Mark Twain married hi
wife, and the result is a monument t.
Adam. Rev. Thomas X. BeeCher ono,
suggested that Il Elmira wasn't the gardeI
OF Eden it ought to have been, and thu
whole community being humorists, pro
pose to raise $1,000 for the marble memo
rial ofthe father of the race, with an in
scription by the only man who eve
showed any sentiment over Adam. APP
parentlY Eve is to be left to anguish II
forgetiulness.
AsSERlEs Of sermons ,gan on sunda,
last in Cincinnati, at anuel Reformed
Episcopal Church, 9th flowing charac
ter:
November o-"Ist'- Need of Rev
docs the Bible Answer
that Need?n
November Moses and the Proph,
ets."
November SO-"Has Prophecy Been
Fullilled?'
December Z "Are Miracles Credlble?'
December ll--"Was Jesus Christ the
Son Q. GodS" =
December eI-"Tbe Resurrection from
the Dead"
December 2s-"The Conclusion Of the
Whole Matter"
THE Western Michigan Methodist Epis.
cOpal Conference at recent meeting gave
unmistakable expression to lis sentiments
on the use OF tobacco by the unanimous
adoption OF the following resolutions: L
That hereafter no young man using tobac
CO in any form, coming as a candidate fol
the ministry, shall be received into THU
Conference; 2. That those members o.
this Conference already addicted TO the usf
of tobacco are exhorted to desist from itir
public and when in the company of per
sons who do use it; 8. That all circuits
and missions are advised not to send dele
gates to this Conference hereafter who are
users Of tobacco I. That no local preach
er will be ordained an elder who uses to
bacco.
TIE Methodist Bishops, at their session
in New York on Friday last, apportionec
5000 for missionary work in West Wiz
ginia. To the Pittsburgh oonfersnG,
they apportioned $4,000. They appro
priatcd $4,000 to foreign missions
During the afternoon session brief I'D
dresses we're made by several members o
the committee. Dir. J. B. Cornell sale
that interest in the subject Of missionar!
work was on the decline. He espresso
the hope that the committee would adop
plan whereby the people Of the churches
could be induced to take the welfare o
tho missions to heart. Mr.. Oliver Hoyt
Of Stamford, Conn.,, did rot agree will
the dolefpl view presented by Mr.. Cornell
He bad reason, he said, to believe That thl
churches weredoIag MI they could for the
cause, and that the present revival i
trade and the abundance OF crops woulC
result in larger collections next year. TIT
Rev. Drs, Dashiell and Barnes also spokt
hopefully Of the outlook, after which thu
committee adjourned. Bishop Harris pro
nouRcing the benedictiop.
DR. LEoSALp BAepS does net want
new catechism:
~ do not worship the old catechtsn
All Scripture is given by inspiration o
! God, but no production ofthe Westmins
Fer Assemblies ono whit better or NOR
inspired than Dwights Theology or m!
. other tolerably orthodox body Of divinity
No one member Of the Westminster As
sembly-nOt all OF them together--kneS
more about theology than the late PROBES
; sor Hodge knew. Nor were The debate
7 and conclusions Of that Assembly guide
!; by larger measure OF the diyineillpm
= nation than Is now given to Sn ordinar,
IbGuGldl SAhaCul1Il VI WV &t6rBS hSAts-
Church in the United States. WhateVf
; dominion the shorter catechism may hav
over the faith OF those to whom 1t is on
: Of the tstandards,' do not aCknowledg
II as having any authority q aetermin
. what shall believe or what ] shall teael
What them Must ] for consistency
r sake maintain that the Gatechism is Of 4
value as q manual or text book for i
" struction In doGtrinal theology Not
. all. On the contrary, I think " mo-
. than doubtful whether the Gongreg
y tional churches OF to-day can agree upo
% any other manual that will be SO good 4
9 thst purpose s5sTe
= TIE Rev. Fergus Ferguson, who was b
" fore the Synod Of the United Presbyterii
., Church of Scotland two years ago,
n' charges OF hOresy, delivered lecture ]
Z; Z; Gently on Orthodoxy" he said that i
" sum Of orthodoxy is contained in
!. points. That there is a God; that the vi
~ verse Ia the work Of God; that man Is a