The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-27
enInp amount Of Ignorance and supersti.

ening amount OF ignorance and supersli-
ton.
Rev. DR.. Pentecost, who followed
Moody's work IN many places, and has
now settled down into aprotessionAl re
yivalist, has been stirfingup Minneapolis
Mimi, by Incorporate attacks upon anuse
ments. For example, Rev. DR.. Knicker'
booker was berated publicly for indorsins
a benefit for the local Cottage Hospital,
given by The Metropolitan Theator Com.
pany, and protesting Christians and tit-
zens were denounced for p~atronizing The
performance. There Is much just iudig-
nation at P%enteCost's attack, and a"Bruth'
er Clergyman" has u word Of reply In the
local newspapers, from which we extraCt
this: In regard 10 the "theater bills ad.
vertising plays under the auspices Of a
leading minister Of the gospel Of the city,
and under the guise oil. charity might
say only that the leading minister
Is fully capable OF defending himself;
or rather, ne needs no defense before
the citizens Of Minneapolis. This "lead-
ing minister" IL the eldest pastor among
us, having had charge Of his present
church over 20 years. No one Of olr gu
gems will charge him with having failed 70
declare the whole Counsel OF Cod as he
understood II, from the pulpit; hut besides
tho gospel preaching, he has devoted
some time 10 living 1t, and as a con-
sequence, has endeated himself to this
whole community. He may not have
found II In his heart to charge all his DIFF
fering brethren with depraved hearts,
with hatred OF God, with uhbelief in the
word OF God, or even with being fools;"
but he has fed the hungry, clothed the
naked, visited the sick, and preached the
gospel In prison. Among the other noble
things he has done ID this: He has estab.
lished a cottage hospital In our city where
many poor wayfafer has found rest and
care. 1fl' 'fal . ft
In that hospital this tleading minister Of
the gospel" has stood at times at the bed.
side Of the sick, smoothing the pillow OF
pain, speaking words OF comfort and peace
TO- fiendless souls who had turned in here
from a cold world to die. To assist this
"leading minister" in his Christian work,
to help stay his hand, to pour a few need.
fol dollars into the hospital treasury, 80
that he can 70 on in his heavenly charity,
the Metropolitan theater OF our city kind
ly, generously opened Its doors for q
charity benefit. And the first report we
hear OF this noble act on the part OF the
managers OF the theater, and OF this mo-
BILE act on the part Of the "leading minis.
ter" Is o sneer from one who has come
into our city to teach US how To be saved.
A pastor in Manistee, Mich, according
to the Times Of that city, has %inaugurated
a prayer test on a scale much more ire
mendous than Tyndall contemplated. On
"a recent occasion he prayed that "the
Almighty might palsy the hands Of every
man who went to the ballot-box to vote
and did not put in a ballot in favor Of pro-
hibition, and to palsy every mans tongue
who attempted to talk prohibition and
then afterward voted with the old polit-
cal parties" The prohibition votein Man
isteo Is very light, and the pastor conf
IDENTIFY expects a response to his arrogant,
not to say blasphemous application.
The Southern Presbyterian assembly,
now in session at Louisville, KY, has had
the subject Of dancing up for discussion,
aud'came to the conclusion that before OF.
fenSesot this sort are brought before the
ecclesiastical courts Of the church, the pas
It9k should privately admonish the Offend
CT. The assembly sustains the Georgia
synod in Dea Blocks case, -resCinding tho
action Of the Atlanta [Ga.) presbytery in
confirming the expulsion Of Dea Block
from his church, because he allowed
dancing at his house, and he is now fully
restored to church membership.
A prolonged discussion in England
six years ago upon secular education,
disassoclated from any religious in
sttuction, led the Birmingham School
Board to exclude all moral and religious
instruction from the city schools. Rigid
rules were adopted and even teaching
which implied the existence OF q God was
forbidden. Tie results have not been sat
tsfactory, and at a recent meeting the
Board determined by a strong vote to have
morality taught in future in the regular
course, systematically No special form
Of morality is to be ~inculcated, and any
glimpse of religious teaching is to be ex-
cluded.