Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-20

members lost their virtue and got their
bribeS.
THE argument of the Harrisburg Pa.
triot. which we republished, against sen.
atOrial delegates to the state convention
has good deal of strength in it and is
worthy the attention of the party.
MINOR TOPICS.
No opium smoker is admitted to church
membership by any Christian mission
working in China.
FROM tho tone Of the editorials which thu
New York Independent excludes from it
regular editorial department., it is manifes,
that in Mr.. Twining it has the right mar
in the wrong place.
REFERRING to the cases of the rituals
tic clergymen of England, who seem de-
termined to make martyrs of themselves,
whether Or no, the archb ishop of Canter
bury very truthfully and wittily says
eff man is determined to go into Jail, i,
is very difficult to keep him out of it,
There are some men who are never happy
unless they have grievance.
THE growing humanitarian view is that
in the present condition of the human
mind, and the rather uncertain status OF
theology, it may be we'll to follow the
teacher Lcngfellow sings about, who
Skilful alike with tongue and pen,
He preached TO all men everywhere
The Gospel OF the Golden Rule.
The New Commandment given to men,
Thinking the deed and not the creed,
Would help us In our utmost need.
OF 400 Lutheran churches in the Penn.
sylvania synod, Al are named St. Johns,
80 St. Paul's, % lions, 1S Trinity, IS St.
Peters, IA Christ, 10 Salem, St. James
7 Jerusalem, 2 St. Michacrs, ISL. Luke's,
4 Immanuel's, 4 Grace, Frieden's 3 St.
Marks, 3 st. Matthew's, 2 St. Thomas, ,
2 Bethel, 2 Epiphany, 2 Union, one each
Augustus, Holy Communion, Transfigura-
ton, David's, Solomon's, Concordia,
Himmels, Ebcnezer, Zoar, St. Stephens. s.
The rest are named after the locality or
the nea arest neighbor.
They organized debating club in
DeadwOod last week. The fact that the
president was dead shot and sat with
two revolvers in hand kept the society in
comparative quiet while the questions
Ought flush royal to beat four aces -
and " Is it wicked to lynch Mexicans on
Sunday ?' were debated. But when they
tackled the question Ought you to fire
when man reaches for his hip pocket, OF
are you bound to wait till you sec whether
it's revolver or whisky bottle he's draw.
ing ~ the president couldn't control then,
and five funerals was tho result
THE growth of tho Methodists as Il sect
has probably been without precedent in
rapidity. Their first preaching house -
dates from 1879, at Bristol. England. But
before that an unused foundry in London
was SO used. The worship in Methodist
chapels in England to o-day is divided into
that of the Liturgical and non-Liturgical.
Wesleyism combines both, and in many
Wesleyan chapels the service differs but
little from that Of the Episcopal church.
a writer of authority computes the adher-
ents of Mcthodism at 5000, 900 in connec-
Jon with the Bristol conferences, and
II, 600, 900 with the American. The eccle-
siastical property Of the connection in
Great Britain may he calculated at c11,-
00O, 600, and that in America c1S, ,OOO, 900
sterling.
THE Chautauqua school of philosophy,
reminds the Newark Advertiser of the
pliable schoolmistress who was willing to
teach that the world was either square CT
round, as it might best please the commit
tee. q Chautauqua is not at all rarticu-
lar the scholars who go there eau have
any kind of theology they wish and are
willing to pay for. The teachers comprise
leading clergymen of all the sects. There
is Taylor, the Congregationalist, Foster,
the Methodist, Schaff, tho Presbyterian,
Sanders, the Baptist, and others, and al
though We do not notice either Catholic
or Universalist, we hope they will be
brought to the front, and that all shades
Of belief will be fairly present from the
rankest Calvanism to the Broad church,
that takes in everything and everybody
DER CHEISTLICHER kUNDsCHAFTER,
published and edited by Elder John F.
Weishampel, comes to us this week in
for the late John S. Gable, and
with a poem to his memory, for the re-
publication of which We cannot find space
to-day. That Elder Welshampel is not
pleased with some of the comments of the
church organs on Brother Gable may be
inferred from his fervid editorial observa-
tion that: "The death of Brother Gable
has been alluded to editorially by the d.
D. who rules the ring that wants to rule
the Church of God, in such heartless and
cold spirit, that shows no degree of sor-
row for the loss Of that great and good
man, that we can readily believe the de-