The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-03-08
RELIGIOUS DRIFT AND DISCUSSION

| IARAulhE LunT III lLh LEAubL4teu luIl
has been placed in the Roman Cathol
Index Ex.purgatorius.
AFTER q sharp fight on the part Of th
churches against it, Glasgow is to hav
the convenience OF horse.cars on SUNDAY
DE-. DANA, of St. Paul, Mimi, says thu
q large percentage Of the Congregations
lists who 60 west are lost TO the denomina
ton.
"RE.talous GYrsIEsn is what DR.. Ha1
calls those people who go from church
and sip on the sweetness OF dltferen
minister every Sunday.
The centenary Of Robert Raikes, thu
founder ofsunday schools, is to be gener
ally and impressiyely observed in England
during the last week in June.
Rev. Mr.. MoRrMKR, late Of st. LukeI
Church, Baltimore, whom Bishop Pinkne!
inhibited because Of high.church procliyi'
ties, has been appointed as assistant min
lister in Trinity parish, New York, under
Dr.. Dix, and with the approval OF Bishop
Potter.
THE only place in the United State
where services are held by the sandema
nian society Is Danbury, Ct, the place o.
burial Of Robert Sandeman, the leader
who gave his name to the sect. Every
week the members have meeting al
which they greet each other with kiss
and then sit down to dinner provided
by stewart in their employ.
TIE ultramontane party in the German
Parliament are offended by the ring
ing of the church bells by the civil
authorities on the anniversary OF the bat
tie OF Sedan. OF course they do not re-
greet that the Germans won that battle, but
complain that Protestants boast OF it as q
triumph over the Roman church. A bill
has passed the lower House, providing
that it shall not be lawful for the civil
authorities to use the bells except to give
alarm in case Of fire, flood and other Ca
lamities.
YESTERDAY was the feast OF St. Thomas
Aquinas, and on that day, so years ago.
Gioachino Pecci, then a student, made q
public disputation in science. To com
memorate the double event Leo XIII re-
ceiyed in solemn audience the representa-.
tives OF universities, academies, scientific
bodies, institutes, seminaries and colleges,
and also professors and students from any
part OF the Catholic world. These deputa-
tons were headed by bishops and prelates,
and the organizer OF this demonstration
was Mgr Tripepi, who arranged so sue
cessfully year ago the deputation OF the
Catholic press.
TEE recent revival at Wesleyan univer-
sity down in Middletown, Ct, appears to
be OF the good old.fashioned fervid sort.
Prof. Harrington says that in all his is
years connection with the college, he has
never known q revival there so thorough
as this. Religion was at rather low ebb
with us compared with what 1t should
have been, writes q correspondent to Zion's
Herald. The regular meetings were for
the most part thinly attended, and carried
on by the faithful few" We had an in.
tellectual religion, and as one brother
said, "a metaphysical Cod" nor were we
wholly without spirituality. But worldli-
ness and intellectualitywere allowed to con-
fiict with spirituality, and even Christians
were drifting. Now all this is changed.
TIE New York 0bsTuT in one of Its
crusading articles against the evolutionists
says: at remains for US to consider the
duty Of trustees Of colleges in which these
theories are said to De taught, and OIL
parents whose children are seduced into
infdelity by such teaching" "a very in
telligent college professor" remarks the
antagonistic Independent, confirms our i'm
preston that Princeton is the college
aimed at in this paragraph; and he re-
minds us that only very short time ago
an effort was made by some OF the ODER
ueT's way Of thinking TO remove one OF the
most competent professors in that institu'
ton on the ground that, though Chris
tian man and connected with the church
some OF his scientific beliefs are regarded
as theological heresies. But President
McCosh defended him mantully, and
showed that TO dismiss him would be 8
humiliating confession OF intellectual weak
ness on the part OF theology"
De. CURRY, in concluding his articles OF
the Methodistitinerancy in the Independent
glorifes and advocates the system in thes'
words: The itinerant minister that apprec
iates his position receives from II an in
spiratien and enlargement OF thoughts ant
feelings somewhat corresponding to the
greatness Of the system OF which he torm
a part. He instinctively claims an inheri
lance in its achievements and history; Q
possessory right in all that is and an heir
ship to the reversionary greatness OF II
future. II his soul is in harmony with thu
soul OF Methodism, he finds his highes
freedom in bearing its "yoke" and feel
himself to be dignifed and ennobled b!
| his position; and, since the recognized de
sign OF the Methodist itinerancy is evan
Relical propagandism he is impelled b!
the sense Of what he Is to engage actively
| in that work. In this, more than in IN!
other single condition, may be found TIT
secret OF the success OF Methodism, AM
this would be impossible but for the itin
erancy.
The marquis Of Bate, who sat for tn
portrait Of Lothair to the great Jew VIII
rules over England, has just been trans
lating the Roman breviafy; and the boo
will be interesting far beyond the limits
the Roman communion. The Roma
Catholic lRity who speak only Engisl
nov have, for the first time, an opportu
nity OF studying, in q complete form, IN
| deyotions which are binding on thel
clergy, And we shall enjoy it, because
RI the source from which very much OF on
nrayer.book Is derived, and the model Of
,,,hicb n was drawn 1p. For Just as on
Communion office is based on the Roma
missal Flames ! used 70 call our Englls
office an ''ill.mumbled mass 50 on
morning and evening prayer is based upo
the canonical hours Of the breyiary. II
deed, Lord Butte admits that the ohurc
OF Rome has lost much by not having