The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-04
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RELIalous tDRIFr IN DISCUSSION.
TN World thinks the tanilisr principle
Of compromise should be kept in view by
both sides of the controversy on the sum
day question, SO far as there is q contro-
.yersy. The Cllyisiiaa llige''cer in q re-
cent editorial communiSa cation defined lts
position upon the question.
1--WE do not claim, ,, it said, "any rightto
intertere with those who wish to make the
Lords day day Of pleasure, except as We we
may, interfere with their consciences by
characterizing theirfolly and wickedness
as our convictions prompt us to do.
There can be no doubt of the correctness
of this position. Now let the other side
in like manner renounce all claim 10 m
terfere with persons who wish 10 make
Sunday day OF worship and churcn-go-
ing, TO observe it with Puritan str1ctness
Il fhey choose, and we shall have perfect
statement of the matterin its fair and Just
aspect
Two widely different movements have
been long apparent in the Established
Church of England, one toward evangell-
cal Professionalism and the other toward
the Church of Rome. In recent review
article widely noticed in England Mr..
Gladstone aims to show that these two
movements are largely connected as cause
and effect. 1t is matter of history that
some of the first and chief converts 70
Roman Catholicism from the Episcopal
Church in England were the sons OF the
men who sent Whitfield and Wesley 10
this country to begin great religious re-
vival, the one IN the northern 1n III, tAS
other in the southern colonies, ana VINO
generation later carried West Indian eman-
sipStion. OF the sons of Wilberforce, the
most evangelical of Episcopalians, four out
Of five became Roman Catholics. 1t is
foually true that two living English car
dinals, Newman and Manning, were
strongly in sympathy before their seces-
sion 10 Rome with evangelical Anglican
ism. Facts like these are grouped by Mr.;
Gladstone to show that the religious zeal
and feryor, the longing for an earnest,
active individual spiritual life, which still
GLOW in the hymns of the two Wesleys
and lend a charm to the biographies OF
mere merchants like Wherefore ana
Buxton. if this zeal works under the con.
3ition Of religious establishment, vii!
lead men sooner or later to the Church OF
Rome.
Tux Jews Of this country are seriously
considering the propriety of abandoning
the observance of the Sabbath. 10 lg-
more the Sabbath is no new thing, but to
defend and even to advocate such an ig-
noring is new. 1t is urged by many Jews
that in the severe competition OF modern
times, in all avocations, the loss OF TWO
days of the week makes the difference
between success and failure. The first
day of the week is a day when both law
and custom forbid trade; and If to this en-
forced day of rest the seventh day Is added
as a voluntary rest day, the Jew IS handl-
capped in the race. For this, and other
reasons, it is argued that it would be bet
ter to observe Sunday instead OF saturday.
MANY Rabbis hold this belief. Inc peo-
ple are ceasing to observe the Sabbath,
thew saw. and unless Sunday be made a
religious day to them they will soon have
no day of worship-on the Sabbath they
work, and on Sunday they amuse them
seIves-to the scandal OF those who wish
to see that day sacredly kept. Ot course,
the more orthodox of the Jews bitterly
oppose the proposed innovation, and not
war of factions is impending.
NJ. ARsENE HoUssAYE, some time ago,
wrote as follows regarding Victor Hugo
and immortality: We were dining at
Victor Hugo's. Four of us were believers
and four Atheists-not speaking of the
ladies, who were all too clever to be
infidels. Victor Hugo, of course, was
among the believers. "To believe in God
is to believe nothing" said one of the
Atheists. 'eTo believe in God is to be-
lieve everything" cried Victor. SIT is to
believe in the Infinite and in ones i'm
mortal soul will prove it to you" His
face was bright with heavenly halo. You
know he was born with the century. His
face is crowned with white hair, but it is
the volcano under the snow. His eyes
shine like burning Goals; his brow is
arched like an Olympian's; the nose ls
refined, with distended nostrils; the
mouth is eager and smiling, still full of
designed after the laws of artistic
grammar. 1t is q well-made head on
a robust body. By robust do not mean
enormous. He has not the stature OF
giant nor the torso of Hercules, but he
Is man of steel, with no sign OF age
about him. He has all the agility, the
suppleness, the ease and grace OF his best
years. He is now enjoying his third or
fourth youth; I do not doubt he will see
the century through. 81 feel in myself,
he continued, "the future life. l am like
a forest once cut down. The new shoots
are stronger and livelier than ever. l am
rising, 1 know, toward the sky. The sun
SHINE Is nCal 4hS jill gives AAC
its generous sap, but heaven lights me
with the reflection of unknown worlds.
You say the soul is nothing but the result
ant of bodily powers. Why, then, is my
soul more luminous when my bodily pow
ers begin to fail? Winter is on my head,
and eternal spring in my heart. There
breathe at this hour the fragrance OF the
lilacs, the violets and the roses as at
twenty years. The nearer l approach
the end the palmer hear around me
the immortal symphonies of the worlds
which invite me. 1t is marvellous, yet
simple. 1t fairy tale and it is history.
For half century l have been writing
my thoughts in prose and verse, history,
philosophy, drama, romance, tradition,
satire, ode and song-I have tried all. But
I feel have not said the thousandth part
of what is in me. When l go down to the
grave, can say like SO many others, 81
have finished my days work" but /! can
not say, 81 have finished my life." My
days work will begin again the next morn
ing. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is
thorougbfare. 1t closes on the twilight to
open with the dawn. / improve every
hour because / love this world as my
fatherland, and because the truth compels
me as it compelled Voltaire, that human
divinity. NV work is only beginning.
A., ,yornyrnonf 10 hardly above ia fOn0da-