The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-05-04

And the angel oil the Lotu epaRe unto
hilip, saying, Arise and 60 toward the
outh unto the way that goeth down from
erusalem unto GAIA, which Ia desert.
md he arose and went: and, behold, o
nan OF Ethiopia, eunuch OF great au-
hority under Candace, Queen oil the
Gthiopians, who had the charge OF all her
reasure, and had come to Jerusalem Tor
o worship, was returning. and, sitting In
lis chariot, read Esais the prophet. Then
.he Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, ana
oin thyself to this chariot, And PhihP
ran thither TO him, and said, Understand
est thou what thou readestP And he
said, How can /, except some man should
guide me? And he desired Philip that he
would come up and sit with him.
Mr.. Townsend asked permission to make
a comment upon the above words, and 10
say that certain uniformity was appa,
rent in the conduct Of Christians In all
ages; that there seemed to be no hesita'
ton on their part of getting up into a
chariot with an Ethiopian when they were
travelling on foot, but that history con-
tanned very few examples Of their inviting
the Ethiopian to ride with them when
thew we're in the chariot and the Ethio-
MAN was travelling on foot. He apollo
rized for suggesting this thought by stat
inv that it was possible he might become
more strongly than over before imbued
with its fall force and aptness from the
nature Of his employment during the past
week at West Point.
"MES die an ar known no moar," be-
gan the president, as stiffness reigned
throughout the hall Of the Limekiln Club
at am my painful dooty to inform dis
club dat de Hon. Cumback slathers, an
honorary member residin' at South Bend,
has passed ober de dark ribber. he mas
aiten visited dis club an worked on de
twenty.ninth degree wild US, an he was
celebrating to remove to dis city mex,
month an enter upon vigorous career Of
whitewashin.' Cnmback Slathers was not
a great man. He wasn't man who
would eber save de kentry or ruin 1t. DE
never sot in de Legislator an he was no
orator. He had no horn to toot an no ak
10 grind. He was simply q plain man
one OBJ de million OBJ common pebbles on
de shore OF times great ocean waitin' to be
gathered, Outside OF little circle OBJ
friends no one will miss him. Some oder
man will walk in the paths followed out
by his footsteps. Some oder pebble will
be washed upon de shore TO take de va
can't place, an de big world will run on
iist de same as il siCh man had never
moved among us. As club We do not
believe in elogies. Men am what dey am'
an dyin' doan put angels wings on de
shoulders OF sinners. Let me simply say
OF our dead an gone brndder dat he used
men list as men used him, which IS q
principle dat knocks de golden rule sky
high any day in de week. l found him
honest, truthful, charitable; aud he was .
man who fully realized the TACK, when
formin au opinyun OF oder men, dat
while ten fousan' dollar damon kin be
carried in the west pocket, 1t takes big
vehicle to tote along score OF empty
bar'ls worth twenty cents apiece."-De-
troi Free Pres.
If there be no more truth in "the sweet
Galilean vision" than NJ. Renan finds in
it, we think there should be less sugar in
his language concerning it. Christianity
Is either very grim reality, or an illusion
which, whatever its nobler elements, has
misled tho human race for centuries, and
guided it far out OF the straight path oil
human development. II it be the former,
let US bend our wills to 1t in reverent
awe. II it be the latter, let US have less
strip OF false sentiment about it. and hear
rather more OF the secret OF its false magic,
and less OF the rapture which might be
becoming in a mere artist, looking back on
the past with no desire except to revive
it's brilliant colors and its startling groups
OF majestic figures, but which Is very far
from becoming in one whose aim is truth,
as truth, and who must be aware that
Christianity, if It has led US astray ataA
has led US far astray indeed.-LoadOn
Spectator, april 10.
TIE licensure OF women as preachers is
one OF the interesting questions to come
before the Methodist general conference
now in session at Cincinnati. Rev. Mr..
Whcatley takes up the gauntlet for the
women bravely in this weeks LndeDendent.
In concluding his article he says: "The
licensure OF women keeps up the continu-
ity OF Methodist practice. Susannah Yves.
ley, mother Of John and Charles Wesley,
though an unlicensed, was better and
more popular preacher than her somew hat
lordly husband. John Wesley, always
powerfully influenced by his sanity moth.
err, licensed the Misses BosanQuet, Briggs,
Perronet, Crosby, Murrell, and other
Select" ladies, in the same sense and
quite as formally as he licensed hundreds
OF his male helpers. To Sarah Mullett, an
uncommonly able and useful preacher,
whose name appeared on the circuit plan,
together with that OF her husband, he
gave written authority at the Manchester
conference, in 1857, by the following
note: We give the right hand q
fellowship to Sarah Mullett, and
have no objection TO her being
preacher In our connection, so long as she
breaches Methodist doctrine and attends
to our dicipline.' Space will not permit
detailed mention OF Mrs. DR.. Taft, another
marvelously successful Wesleyan preach
er, nor OF her prophetic sisters, who
abonnded among the Wesleyans in Great
Britain after their founders decease, as
they do among the primitive Methodists
to this day. Mesdames Fl. ?. Reeves,
Phoebe Palmer, Van Colt, Whittenmeyer,
Willing, and hundreds more have been
marvelously blessed in this country while
the common salvation. In
England, DR.. Mahan tells us that the min.
istry OF women is more efficient OF good in
Northampton, the home OF the infdel Brad.
laugh, than that OF men. In Dorking,
too, a young lady oil very superior educa.
ton, daughter OF retired officer in the
army, baptized with the Holy Ghost and
with power, is fundamentally reforming
the town and gathering hundreds OF saved
Immortals into the church Of Christ"