The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-09

disQuisitlon Of the past and
present Of the HebrewS, makes intoleIr-
ance the InainsprIng Of their earlier life
and tho chief agency Of the sad experi-
ences which they encountered In their
later career. Says Dr.. Bellows: "Your
earlier faith gave u proud and naughty
sense Of superiority 10 all nations. The
elevation from which you looked down
on the Gentiles was Unreasonable. To
believe In the direct origin Of ones faith
with God without human limitations Is TO
make ~ federation illogical and blasphem'
OTIS" Again he says: "But there 10 toll
Grafton which springs from humility; from
q recognition 81 human limitation aud the
bOundleSS goodness Of God. Your race
could not, with It's faith, have liberation"
DE-. Bellows will hardly be able 10
subslantlate his assertion from Bible or
history. Neither will he lind u biblical
commandment enioining NS hatred and
warfare against others on account Of their
religion, nor will he succeed 10 show, in
the run ol centuries, even one single In.
stance whore our race has forced or tried
TO force their creed on another nation,
tribe, family or individual against desire
and conviction, To the contrary, could
quote numerous passages from the pro-
lihetlC and rabbinical writings showing
how the firm conviction that our religion
will surely become, at SOME future period,
the religion Of mankind manifested itself
in that universal spirit which is FAR above
intolerance, We shall 50 on in our reliG'
ious development, says the rabbi, IN con-
Clusion, till the time comes whom all man.
kind will meet in the full and unreserved
acknowledgment OF the great idea as pro.
mulgated on Sinai. We shall surely meet;
but the timO for Il has not come yet. Let
us DO united as men and citizens; but, as
to religious principles, there is, as yet, a
greater distance between tho Unitarian
and the Jew than between the Unitarian
and Rome.
LORD QuEENsBERRY has been creating a
sensation across the water by his recent
peculiar utteranceS on the burial question.
On his return lately to England from
South America, he found that there was
some excitement about the burial Of the
late Lady Truro. She was buried in open
wicker, near the surface OF the earth (un'
conseCrated), and without any religious
ceremony whatever. One OF the society
journals" l'dniiy Fair, said that the SAM.
iary authorities ought to have prevented
this, since, II II becomes a custom, ENG.
land will soon become Charnol house,
WhereupOn Lord Queensberry wrote to
that paper a strange letter, which has
been widely copied and commented on. He
says that he has left special instructions in
his will that he shall he buried in the
same way Us Lady Truro. He says the
whole earth is charnel house; and Of the
my RAD beings that die, mans body alone
becomes curse instead oil q blessing to
the earth. Collins cheat the earth OF the
substance il needs and poison tho water
and ait. "As to the religious part
OF the question" writes Lord Queens.
berry, "the Christian religion will
in no way interfere with man
being buried earth TO earth ii he
wishes it. As to my own reason for re-
fusing consecrated ground, the reason il
simply this: am not a Christian, and !
will not allow at my death that my burial
should give the lie TO what have declared
during my lie" The Scotch papers, writes
Moncure Conway, are furious, and pro-
pose that Lord Queensberry shall be
turned out OF the house Of Lords, Being
a representative peer who has to be re-
elected by the Scotch Lords at the begin
ming Of each parliament, it may be done
1t would be unique to have 4 tory.pesr.
martyr Of heresy. These opinions OF Lord
Queensberry excite all the more attention
because the Douglas family, to which
he belongs, Is Roman Catholic; his mother
is an eminent lady in Catholic charities
and his brother an eminent Priest Of the
same religion at Harrow, near London
He himself has been hitherto chiefly dis
tinguished for his interest in athletic ex
ercises and hunting.
In review Of "0ld Faiths in New
Light" by Rev. Newman Smyth, Prof
Swing, of Chicago says; To me this vol
ume brings peculiar delight, because ii
will force the synods Of Illinois 10 adopt
or tolerate ideas for which one OF the syn,
DDS aTraigned and tried and condemned
one OF their number 1.-THE writer only
about six years ago, and because it viii
show that Prof. Patton was only tempo
rary leader OF Presbyterianism, brought
TO the front BY accidents OF persons and
places, but fitted by nature for the rear
and in the long evolutions Of truth, des
tined 10 find that torlorn place in the pro
ceSSion OF modern thinkers. Il
is now singular that opinions upon Old
Testament matters, which helped exile ont
clergyman from Presbyterianisn, should
come up within five years to help make IA
nous and perhaps popular with the same
denomination brother clergyman otever
more radicalism and rational tendency
1t is almost certain, that had Prof. Patton
delayed his prosecution q few years, the
enemies Of his choice would have so in
creased in the land that he would have
been compelled to abandon his idea OF q
War Of determination aud to accept terms
Of union and peace. That he did moi
wait is not matter, perhaps, Of any re,
greet, for the waking up OF thought conse-
quent upon the tumult OF the heresv trial
must have FASTENED the onward march o.
reason within the Presbyterian church
and have changed into a double quick
what had long been only marking o.
time.
A BRANCH of the Catholic Apostolic
Church has been set up in New York
city, and meetings of these peculiar PEG
pie are also carried on in various other
localities in this country and Canada
They area species Of Second Adventists,
and the sect originated half 4 century
since among some devout Presbyterian
clergymen in Scotland. The brilliant II.
wing was chief apostle and representative
OF the church in its early days in London.