The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-10-21

in ali localities. A missionary writes that
they are in risk Of their lives constantly,
and that their existence d 20 daily dods'
ing Of fate"
The First Assistant Postmaster General
is"gone for" by correspondent Of the
Presbyterian for Sabbath breaking. with
aCongenial company oft others, whom
afelegram soberly styles ladies and gen;
tlemen, he recently spent an entire Sab
bath on pleasure excurSIon in Wiscon'
sin" 'fna
TIE religious newspapers are again dis.
icusslng the tobacco question. The New
England Mttiodit calls the smoklngcar o
school Of vice on the line Of they grog.
shop" The Interior says: "It q man
could take one good cigar day-an after
supper comforter and ask for nor feel the
need Of any more, we would not have the
heart to deny him the luxury"
Tue Missionary Reviev comments IN.
iavorably and vigorously upon the practice
Of giving only large aggregates Of expendi.
lures In accounts Of American mission
societies. In one report the receipts cover
iOrty.two pages and the expenditures less
than two, the first item being one Of near
ly 100000. In another the frat limo on
the credit sideis western Turkey. Mission
-Remittances, cost OF exchange and pur-
chases, S7OO3O 49," ~
Tue MennoniteS, as Is well known, hold
to close communion. Their reasons for SO
doing are given in their newspaper, the
Herald Of Truth. They believe that those
persons who commune togetheriBh should be
Of one mind and one faith. Their objec-
tons to communing with members Of
other denominationsare that: First-They
uphold war. second-They indulge in
the pride and fashions of the world.
Third They swear oaths. Fourth-They
belong to secret societies. Fifth-They
defend infant baptism. ''D
A srArE convention on the Sunday
question is to be held in Boston, Mass,
October 81 land 90. The Rev. Drs Thomas
Arnitage, Henry W. Warren, W, De Loss
Love. Joseph Cook, ]. O. Peck, Henry NJ.
Kiug, Al. Gordan, Alvah Hoyery, vii.
liam Rice, L. W, Bacon and other persons
are to read papers on topics arranged un-
der the titles Rationale Of the Sabbath, =,
"The Sabbath in Nature" "The Sabbath
in Ilistory," "The Sabbath in the State
and in Society" Judge Strong, Of the
United States Supreme Court, will read a
paperon 1.-THE Civil as Distinguished from
the Religious Sabbath: What Is to be
Expected from Civil Law"
INK Presbytery Of Edinburgh has lately
been agitated over permitting the setting
up Of an organ in the church at. North
Lsith. A majority of the congregation
want it, but conservative, tenacious mi.
nority are holly opposed. When the
disturbed pastor presented tho case to the
Presbytery, Mr.. Macpherson, brother
member, said the PASTORS narrative re.
minded him Of what he had read OF Egyp-
tan temples, where they were fine paint
ings, grand architecture and everything
very beautiful; but when ono came to the
center there was miserable cat. Here
they had miserable box OF whistles in
the center Of 1t all. He held it to be q
crying sin to bring up young, useful,
talented minister to occupy the time of the
Pfesbytery merely for tho purpose Of in.
Producing this miserable thing. The case
is not settled yet. Il
The recent pilgrimage to Lourdes and
Iasslette, in France, and the miracles
which are alleged to have taken place
there, have called forth among the better
class Of French journals great indignation,
NJ. John Lemoinne, the well known
writer in the Journal des Bebat,, says: at
is now impossible to recognize the Chris
tian religion in the fetichism and miracle
warehouse business which are soughtto
be imposed upon u.s." "When the ques.
ton is asked" he says, "what has become
Of Jesus Christi We get no reply; We meet
Him nowhere. He is suppressed and de.
pressed in order to make place for a relig-
ion Of trickery, Of bric.a.brac, aud q TOT.
lette.maker." And he adds: "The Holy
Virgin, whom Christians believe to be Of
heaven, is always out, and she goes out in
order to walk about In the evening in the
most extravagant costumes. Then we
have St. Joseph's month, another new de.
yotion, and we shall soon have months
devoted to all the Saints in the calendar"
The Christian Onion, writing about the
revision Of creels, says: :, IL d.
"Neither the Thirty.nine Articles, the
Westminster Confession nor the Metho.
dist Articles Of Belief could be. revised
without dividing the Episcopal, the Pres.
byterian or the Methodist Church; and
such division, with the further divisions
that would follow, would be a far grcatel
evil than any that the petty improvement
III the creeds would remedy; for no creeGs
that are now conceivable, much less any
that are now possible, would be long salts.
factory, or satisfactory for great numbers,
Creed'making for the present, and for
many years to come, Is simply impractical.
bio, and 1t Is useless to look in this direC.
ton for any accommodation to the liberal
spirit and tendency Of the ago. AGREED,
like a political platform, should merely Id:
dictate somewhere about where thee church
as whole stands and be in general way
expressive Of It's principles. But rs one
may be a good Republican or Democrat
without adopting the whole platform Of
his party, so one ought to be able to5be a
good Christian and Christian minister
without adopting the minuti@ Of his
church's creed" s7s.A1 a
TnBdednition Of tho Sabbath as 4 day
in which men are TO be "taken up the
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