The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-02-18

A Chicago temperance committee re
ports that not one Methodist Episcopa
Church, and very few others, use terment
ed wine for communion.
The Old Catholics, under DR.. Dollinger
allow priests to marry, but require thai
the wife shall be acceptable to a majority
Of the congregation and the bishop, and
approved by them. lHa
Since Bishop Jaeger, Of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese Of Southern Ohio, on.
tered upon his duties the number Of par.
ishes and missionary stations about Gin.
cinnati has been doubled. ",
The English House OF Commons has or.
dered that statistical returns shall be made
Of the communicates Of the Established
Church Of Scotland, a step in the move.
ment toward disestablishment.
The question whether a clergyman can
perform his own marriage ceremony has
been in litigation for the last three years
in the courts Of Ireland, and the decision
finally reached is that such marriage IL
valid. 1t would be so, Of course, under the
rule Of common law, which regards mar
riage simply as a civil contract and re.
quires no formal ceremony for It's celebra-
ton.
The Christian Work is authority for the
assertion that while since the beginning Of
the Tractarian movement in England
three hundred and twenty.seyen Anglican
church ministers have united with the
Roman Catholic Church, and one thousand
prominent converts have gone in the same
direction, nearly one-halt of whom are
women; but one nonconiormist has gone
over, and he a Methodist.
Here is specimen Of the sort OF preach.
ing which makes the staid New York pres
bytery draw up its collar and look severe
when the name OF Brother Talmage Is
mentioned. The subject was "Seculal
Events from a Religious Standpoint" and
little gospel about Chinese laundrymen
was interjected in this wise:
"They are the best washermen and
washerwomen in all the world. When
the linen comes back from their laundry
you do not have tospend the whole morn.
ing playing, Button, button, who's got
the button?" Laughter In the fine art
Of starching they strike the delightful
medium between collar limp and wrink-
led and a collar as stiff as a shingle, split
ting at the seam with crack aud an up.
ward stroke that endangers the amputa.
ton Of both ears. Laughter"
tiseasy enough to sec where the laugh,
ter comes in, pertinently remarks an ex.
change; but where the religious stand
point OF astarched collar is, only Talmage
can find out. ea .50
The recent spectacle OF negro preach
ing in Westminster Abbey at the invita-
ton of its broad-sonled dean has already
been alluded to. The occasion was appro.
priately that Of St. James day, for James
is the given name Of the bishop OF Hayti,
the preacher. And what Caucasian
preacher, impressed with the grandeur Of
hissurroundings, could have more ornately
aud fittingly expressed himself than this
African bishop in his concluding prayer
And now on the shores Of old England
the cradle OF that Anglo-Saxon Christiani,
ty by which have been in part at least
Illuminated, standing beneath the vaulted
roof Of this monumental pile, redolent
with the piety OF the gone generations
during 50 many ages, in the presence o.