The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-11-16

lathe course OF au interesting CONVERSE
tuu lately with an intelligent citizen from
be Ohio side, he informed US that visi-
&Cbange is going on among the Quaker
NOple at and around Mt. Pleasant, in the
sIter Of their method OF worship. They
ps getting 10 be more like the Methodist
E0pIe, aud now sing at their meetings,
I'D also have service somewhat alter the
an1er Of ether religious societies. The
Rev. David UpdegraT is pioneer in this
nv departure at Mt. Pleasant. He is one
Athe boldest and most efficient ministers
q The Quaker communion; ; 60 bold in fact
bat st the yearly meeting this fall at Rich.
1atd, Indiana, some objection was made
iIOme Of the brethren to granting him
'hatia called a returning minute" or a
rcdential Of orthodox standing. This hes
auey arose in part perhaps from his
news Oh baptism. He believes in bap-
tim, aud is in favor Of receiving candi.
dis Tor admission into the church
though that ordinance, when they apply
hit although be himselI has never been
aptted. The reverend gentleman has
'at grown, as it were, many Of the tenets
(which he has indoctrinated, and throws
dI good deal OF the fixed and conserva-
tveCharACier Of the faith OF his fathers.
S&that he is not perfectly orthodox in
10 views, judged by tho standard of OF
bodOIy out side OF the Quakers, but that
liz views are slightly iconoclastic as re-
nFds QuaEerism pure and simple. But
Ihlls ne Isl new departurist he is not 9
sPatatist, and up to this time has main
alued his standing and his influence
iaong the QuskeTs OF his native region
round Mt. Pleasant. Where he and they
NtO land, however, is the problem
PEhaps his motto is, sufficient for the day
esthe issues thereof, and no doubt HI
ids encouragement II not sufticiency ii
Sltext, Take no thought beforehand
'hl, ye shall speak, neither do ye pre-
rtdtAte, but whatsoever shall be giver
10 in that hour, that speak ye." 1t i
spy, however, for the outsider to see tha
change, once begun, has no very logi
al stopping place. That which has dis
tHEhhed Quakerism in our day has beer
LHost as we'll defined as ancient Judaism
Gd like Judaism, once wrenched, as it i
aoW being wrenched, from 1t moorings
where will It drift?
Nr. Updegraff believes that Quakerisn
VBAted as It was going on. The children
we're showing more and more Of centri
iastl tendency. They were inevitabl!
@aIOrming to the world. Even Rassillaa
Prince Of Alyssinia, could not be kept ii
The happy valley" OF his ancestors. Thei
emotional lie found no expression in tn
Naiaith. "Alas," says Holmes, "for thos
Saonever sing, but die withalltheir must
Ihem." And so with these good people
hey lived In state OF repression tkat wa
iH conGenial to the children who wen
broad in the land and saw other peopl
HALiug "a joyful noise with psalms.
Iaey returned with vibrating chord il
their hearts, and our friend UpdeSraf ha
sttOne a leader to these younger IsraeI
And thus he stands, and thus they stand
t'lay, neither in nor out OF the old faith
What Is to be their status as respects III
auServative body yet in the majority
SSaIinS to be seen. It may be that Nj
Ee1Sant will no longer be tho mountain
q SamAria, where their fathers have 9
Eelng worShipped.l to the pilgrims Of th
inh who ence toCked thitherwArd troE
Al aud near.