The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-11

eeA thAt the WVtl0 UNCUT " bEVuknb gAs
: to God; and that the Bible Is the word
God, The dilemma Of modern orthodox
Is, in Mr.. Eerguson'S opinion, the attemI
toreconcile those SIX points with the nj
o ton Of The eternity otevil-"a notion nj
. only incompatible with every one Of tn
fundamental propositions Of pure ortht
doxy, but logically destructive OF ever
one Of them"
"TuE public schools" declares the Tai
1t, would, by Protestant ideas, exclud
all religious teaching. The emblem q
\ mans redemption Is under the ban. TIL
!. statue Of the Blessed Virgin must not b
. exhibited. The paintings Of the passion
or likeuesses Of the saints must not b
hung on the walls. Yet Il one OF you
Protestant instructors saw the picture O
. his mother taken from the wall Of Iii
chamber and tramped upon, would b.
not feel indignant? But the picture o
the mother Of God and the pictures repre-
senting the passion Of death OF the world
Redeemer--if we take as true what Is sale
In some OF our recent mont Catholic ex
changes-must he rejected, lest the influ
ences oil popery may PREVAIL In public
schools, q. few verses OF the garbled yer
sion OF the Bible are read as matter O.
form. and Protestant hymns are sung
but the mother Of God Is never mentioned
Catholic children by degrees begin to be-
come un.Catholic, and finally anti atho
lie. They feel they are in o Protestant
atmosphere. The feel that the religion Of
their fathers is not 'thething; that iLisno
,respectable; aud soon they grow up Ia
be as stout Protestants as the best OF them
or, worse still, they become liberals and
finally drift into inidelity,"
TnE Catholic RtrieC, preparing It's read
ers for the church feast OF All Souls, warns
them that there Is no Christian duty
more neglected. We have become sadly
derclict in our duty to the suffering souls.
Especially in this country is this warning
needed, nowhere in the world is devotion
to the soul in purgatory so cold. With
the disappearance of our foreign popula.
ton, this devotion is disappearing also.
There is no more striking proof OF faith
and genuine Catholic ptety than this de.
votion to the suffering dead. We should
remember that the term Of punishment is
known only to God. That the church
sanctions the foundation OF perpetual
masses Is proof that souls may be in pur.
gatory for thousands Of years. Wesome.
times forget our dead few years after we
place the sod above them. This is all
wrong. No Catholic should deem his duty
to the dead discharged who fails to have
masses offered up for them every year,
How many thousands OF Catholics In this
city who never had a mass offered up for
the suffering souls in their liyesP II they
are instructed In their holy religion, how
terrible must be to them the advent OF
death? With the same measure with
which they have measured out their chart.
in their turn"
RELIGIOUS intolerance in Greece Is the
themeof letter by Rev. Dr. Ebert s.
Porter from Paris in the Erangelis!. "The
condition OF affairs in Greece" he says.
''ispeculiar. There have been repeated
attempts to establish American missions
among tho Hellenes, and for the most part
all have failed to gain a substantial foot
hold for the reason that the Greek consti-
tuition forbids proselyting. twill not al
low the adherentS Of the Greek Church IN
DC converted 70 Christianity, and there
have been instances wherein the secular
arm has punished severely those who had
been brought under accusation OF herpsy.
Indeed, it can hardly be questioned that
with respect to religious liberty, there is
more oft in Turkey than exists at present
among a people of glorious traditions, an
illustrious history, but at present in the
deepest bondage OF superstition" Dr..
Porter, however, Cherishes hopes OF the
future IN the prospective annexation Of
the Turkish provinces OF Epifus and
Thessaly to the kingdom. According 10
the Berlin treaty religious liberty Is pleig-
ed to the two provinces, and II Greece
wants them she must conform to the
treaty stipulatlons. Thus it would seem
as though alever had at last been found,
says Dr. Porter, to pry open the prison,
door behind which the Greek constitution
has hitherto immured the eospel. ~ :
Tho cl.,.,,,n :, 1u,.l
' aMT U'"S,.H"% n0fT says
Where did the lsraelites crosg the Red
scar Three or four theories are preya.
tent, Inc Arabs say several miles below
eus"' between the promontory OF Atakah
anu Ayan Musa, where the Red Sea is
about Yen niles, wide: This view is
strengthened by the Rlhle reference to the
walls OF water on both sides Of the army,
put, as Dr. schatf says, 1T is impossible
that SIX hundred thousand men, with
cattle, could have crossed ' SO GREAT e,aS d;s
tqnrein one night without pFoligious
accumulation C. o. miracles, Another theory
H little su nortS sae 9ga oao q = taeGal
channel, four miles long, and less 4 han s hail