The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-07

The lSTELLlGENCER il offered advance
copies OF Talmage's Sermons $50 as to cna
Die II to publish them on Monday morn
ingsJ for s. per week. The ISTELLIGE%cET
declines. They are too trashy.
A BowLrXG GREEN (Ky.) congregation
was startled the other day by colored
wOrshipper remaining seated when all
who wished to 90 to heaven were invited
to rise, and rising when those who pre-.
terred to 20 to he'll were requested to
stand up.
TIE Congregational ministers OF ChIca.
go, in discussing popular amuSenCnts at
their meeting last week, generally agreed
that cards, billiards, theatres, dancing, etc,
were not evils in themselves but had be.
come evils, and that the line Oi true re-
form lay, not against amuscments, Err%,
but in overcoming evil with good.
"a woNAN's church" according 10 the
COngreSationalist, "is the last proposed
novelty. II sto be in New York. II is
to be fOundedb by members OF the Medical
Eclectic Society. II is to have no profcs.
sion Of faith. Its motto is to be, Little
children, love one another All its off.
GERS are to lie women. and consistency re.
quires that all its members shall be. So
far as We are informed, this is to be the
fact"
ALL the bishops in the House OF Lords
but one-Dr MackarnesS. OF Oxford, a
prelatc OF Mr.. Gladstone's creatlon-voted
with the Government on the Afghan war
question. The Bishop Of Gloucester and
Bristol has deemed it necessary to explain
his vote by publishing letter, in which
he says that he came clearly to the con.
"luSion that the war was one Of necessity
and not OF injustice or Of concealed de.
signs To have acquieSced in the Ameers
refusal would have involved the danger Of
the decline Of English influence in India.
which also meant decline In the advance
Of the Gospel.
The Reformed Episcopaians in England
have had falling out, to the great gIce Of
the Church. Bishop Sugden who was or.
dained by Bishop Gregg only last spring,
has repudiated his SUPERIOR who he says
is starting scheme which has mo sane.
ton from the Reformed Episcopal Church
as existing in the United States, Canada,
Bermuda and Great Britain" We know
nothing more OF the scheme" but the
mischief OF it is that Gregg has the "apos.
tOlic succession" and can ordain bishops,
who also will have 1t, for any scheme he
can get adherents to. There Is no way TO
prevent half a dozen new Episcopal
churches, every one with an apostolic
succession. The Church OF England ran
find no logical fault with this.
TIN Jews in Jerusalem count among the
signs Of thei7 repOssessions OF their abode
the fultiiment OF one OF their prophesies
by the concessions the Turxioh Govern
ment has just made to all English c0mpa.
ny for the Euphratcs Valley Railway, and
to French company Tor line from JafTa
10 Jerusalem. The Euphrates Railway is
to intersect the former provinces OF As.
syria and labylOnia and have stations at
Mossul and Eiillel, near which are Assy.
rian and I1abylonian ruins. tits expected
that eventually a junction will he effected
between the Euphrates line and the Egyp.
tian Railways which would confirm lisa.
iah, xix, %: I'm that day there shall be
highway ont OF Egypt to Assyrio, and the
AsSyrian shall come into Egypt, and the
Egyptians into Assvria and the Egyptians
shall serve with the Assyrians."
A PAMPHLET just issued by the English
Wesleyan Conference office gives the fol.
lowing approximate estimate Of the provi.
sion at present made in England and
Wales for the accommodation OF worship.
ers by the various religious bodies: