The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-09-30

sure mark Of Divinity, as sign that he
was the Judge who judged righteously, and
who knew what was In man. There was
once preached an old.fashioned doctrine
twas preached BY Paul, lost In the dark
ssges and reyiyedby Luther called just.
fcation by Faith. Perhaps Dean Stanley
knows oil about IL but II will take thou
sand power microscope 10 discover II In
the above extract-it 1t can be discover.
ed"
THAT the Old Catholics are not 50 much
reformed" as generally supposed, is the
belief Of q correspondent OF the Church.
man in Germany who thus describes some
Of their services which he has witnessed;
1.-THE confession Is made not only to God,
but to the Virgin, the archangel Michael,
John the Baptist, the apostles st. Peter
and ST. Paul, TO all the saints, and to the
congregation, and the whole sacred con.
claye is entreated to intercede with God
for the sins Of The celebrant, while the
mintstrant deSoutly prays that God may
have mercy upon him and forgive his sins.
The merits and prayers oithe aforesaid, as
well as the rest Of the apostles, and Of
Linus, oletus, Clement, %ystus, Cornelius,
Oyprian, Laurentius, Chrysogomus, John
and Paul, Cosmos and Damianus, and Of
all the saints, are likewise invoked for the
benefit Of the congregation. The yeritable
sacrifice OF the mass 70 duly made and Of.
fered in the approved Romish style, and
because our Lord said to the apostles at
the time Of the institution Of the Lords
Supper, do this in remembrance Of me-
thereof tho Old Catholic priest, like the
Roman Catholic priest, takes the elements
for, in The stead, and place Of the people,
whom, by o theogical fiction, he now
represents. AS long as the unadulterated
mass Is In service, and in the present case
the sole hebdomadal service, Of the Old
Catholics, Il Is difficult to regard their
movement as in the direction OF true,
evangelical, primitive and apostolic Chris
tianity. That the movement Is neither
popular nor aggressive In Germany can
not be concealed"
Arameetlng Of the Free PresbYtcry Of
Aberdeen, Scotland, held on the ID Of
September, the case Of Professor Robert.
son Smith came up for discussion, and the
libel which had been served on him was
read. Professor Smith said that no had no
further defence TO put in in writing, but in
q speech explaining his position he de.
MED the charge that his opinions respect.
ing the Book Of Deuteronomy were antag.
onistic to those OF the Westminster Con.
iession. He declared that he held to the
inspiration, infallible truth and divine au.
thority Of the book as strongly as his op.
ponents. The question was whether or
not the Confession had declared that the
book could only be understood in a strict.
ly historical sense, and whether or not, il
the books not historical, the author Of 1t
must be held to have been guilty Of
moral offence, which, Of course, was in
consistent with inspiration. This was a
point at which the Presbytery would have
to look, and he thought that it would be
found as matter Of fact that there were
the very grayest difficulties connected with
the superstition that. Moses was the author
otthe whole Levitical legislation difficult
ties so great that the Church would not, he
believed, in It's loyalty to truth, in its de-
sire to lay no undue burden on the con-
sciences of thinking and intelligent men,
make this point Of orthodoxy. II they
polled the scholarship Of Europe they
would, he believed, find that the opinion
held was that Deuteronomy was not pro-
iessedly historical record, Notwithstanding
all that was said by Sir Henry MoncriOT
and others, who, he made bold to say, had
mover studied the question,