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

reason 10 snow why he changes MS rel
glon beyond the bare argument Of convil
ton OF truth and salvation. These ar
spiritual motives which heather relation
do not understand and for which the,
never give convert credit What tn
Hindu wants Is reason with which 10 re
ply 10 pey or demon, whom he hears ask
Ing: why have you left my service"
THE "CoNQNgaiioualia" has been givinI
a series Of editorial articles on crecds. Tn,
last one Is on "The Earliest Creeds,' ant
It quotes all the forms Of creed given II
the New Testament, showing how brie
they are, and that they are confined to the
most elementary statements Of Christian
faith. They are:
NathanieI's confession, John i, 80, "Thou
art the Son OF God; Thou art the King Of
Israel"
Peters confession, John vi, ~, Thou
art the Holy One OF God"
Peters second confession, Matt xvi, II
Thou art the Christ, the Son Of the liz
ing God"
Thomas confession, John Xxx, %, "My
! IDTu ana my LOu.
The Ethiopian eunuch sconfcsSion, Acts
VI 81, II believe Jesus Christ to he the
Son Of God"
Paul's direction to the jailcr, Acts xvi,
u, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ"
And his cpitOmG Of faith Cor. Ky. 5,
Christ died for our sins; lie was buried I;
lie rose again on the third day."
THE Unitarian Rreirw while it cxccls in
brightness and ability, IL also remarkable
for certain heterogcneousncss which
raises an admiring inquiry into the
coherent power Of such an aIl.cmbracing
denomination. Rev. John ". Chadwick
diScourses In the last number on "Thc
Infinite Life Of Man." not denying the
common conception OF immortality, but
preiering for his gospel the eternal life"
OF George Eliot and Frederic IIarrison,-a
thing Of quality rather than Of duration
Rev. DR.. John II. Morrison, wko speaks
for the conservative Unitarians, sharply
criticiSes in the same number Chadwick
"Blble Of To-Day as an Gxparte statement
OF the kuenen style 0t destructive
criticism, but nelthOr wise, impartial, com.
prehGnsive or judicial. It starts on the
theory Of the impoSSibility Of super.
natural revelation, and then ahapts the
facts accordingly. II IntCrpretE both
TeStamentS on the theory OF a natural re.
ligiOus evolution. On such theory DR..
Morrison deems Mr.. Chadwick utterly in.
competent 10 understand the character OF
Jesus lie Is Shocked with the loglnatlr
dccisivcnesS with which he dismiSses the
gospel OF John as unhstOrical, and setting
up egotistc claims for Jesus in his own he.
half which would be intoIerable il they
were actual. lie objects also 10 tho Zip.
pant spirit with which no rules out the
Gospel OF the Acts as Il Theological 70.
nance, deliberately falsIiylng the chaaC.
ter and conduct OF Paul, md Ondoavorlng
to palm oil upon US a poor, puny double,
instead ofthe true apostle; ridiculinS his
windy speculatjons;" complimenting the
other apostles as ecclesiastical TurvCy-
Drops" and setting out the apocalypse us
IL "bewilderiny muddlG Of seals and trump.
cts, and walls and plaques" although shot
through from tins TO time with lightning
flashes OF promethean fire."
On. JAMES L. SHAW has just preached
sermon, on the occasion OF the thirty
eighth anniversary Of his settlement over
the Brick Presbyterian Church In lIoches,
tor, \. y" which is published in the Balti.
more Presbyterian IIiMHq Ills topic was
"The Church Of tho Future" He makes
the following points;
|. That the Church OF the future will
make more Of the substance and soul Of
Christianity than Of its form" "By and
by no other credentials will be required
but iuith, love, charity. The man who "
like the Master will find himself welcome
everywhere"
J. II will lay more stress on the lie
than on the creed" The Church will no
longer he called hospitalior invalids ora
sanctuary for scoundrcls."
$. II twill appropriate to itself all those
excllcncies by which the different branches
OF the Church are now distinguished.
"DO You ask me whcthar the Church OF
the future is TO he Methodist, or Baptist,
Or Episcopalian, or Congregational, or
Presbyterian, or Lutheran, or Meravan?
Ny answer is that It is to be all together.
The day is coming, and coming soon, when
the different denominations will begin to
take down their icnces and unswing their
gates The Methodist will take down his
fence; the Baptist will take down his
fence; the Presbyterian will take down hie
fence. One after another these things
which keep lis apart will disappear. There
will be no bars 10 let down: there will be
no surly dog to fly at us ii We attempt to
90 in, and | think there is no dog so Surly
ms a church dog"
|. In the Church OF the future faith in
the Lord Jesus Christ will be regarded as
a valid title tocvrry blessing oi the c0vcn.
ant Baptism will not be prerequisite
TO partaking Of the Lords Supper. "No
particular church has right to require
anything asa term OF communion which
Christ has not made condition OF saliva.
ton"
). The Church the future will reach
the n.a'ses. as Christ reached them,
through then physical inA-mitics and
necessities" 1t viii do great deal more
nurSingt the sick and feeding she hungry.
pr. Shaw Saystha, he came into the minis.
try bit OF bgot, AMI that he isglad ii hG
has broken the shell. lie does not even
believe any longer all the bad stories
about the Pope and the papisrs that used
to impose upon him, lie loves the grand
lold church Of his fathers; but he IN look.
ing for the day whcnn these different tie.
nominations will come together, and We
shall have what We hal but one Church
Of the Living God m earth"