The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-25
Che GetelEi8e4tar,
DRIFT AND DIsCUssION.

The Detroit Free Pres says In Older
times preachers used to be burned at the
stake for heresy. Now they smilingly &c
cept the verdict Of the jury, start a church
Of their own and catch on to popular favor
like double-grip graphing iron.
Atew days ago nothing was too good for
Land League politicians and editions to say
Of Archbishop Croke. John Of Tuam in
his palmiest days was hardly more popu-
lar. But things have occurred in the last
week.
live are told man Is religious, We still
ask, what are his morals| But II we hear
at first that he has honest morals and Is a
man of natural justice and good temper,
we seldom think OF the other question,
whether he Is religious and devout,-Shaft-
esbury,
A clergyman on Long Island has ex-
planned to his congregation that the rea-
son why the prayers of the people had not
saved President Garfeh's life was because
the wound, as shown by the autopsy, was
fatal hom tho first and, moreover, that
there was really no instance where a mir.
acle had been performed in connection
with gunshot wounds"
II you think You can temper yourself
into manliness by sitting there over your
books, It is the very silliest fancy that ever
tempted . young man to his ruin. You
cannot dream yourself into character;
you must hammer and forge yourself one,
u, A. Froude,
The Quakers as sect appear to be lit
tic more than holding their own in this
country, especially at the West, The
statistics Of the New York yearly meeting
for the past three years shows that 45l
members have been added by request dur
ing that time, while Ill have become
members by birth. Deducting 1903 mem
bers who have left the society, the net in
crease appears to have been 100. The In
diana yearly meeting returns nm increase
OF more than thousand members within
year, and now has 10000 members. The
unusual number OF additions by request in
the New York yearly meeting Is regarded
as one Of tho results Of the revival meet
ings which have been introduced among
the Friends within few years past. The
prosperity Of the Indiana yearly meeting
Is largely attributed to the influence OF tho
supervisory committee for religious work
which was appointed last year. A good
report Is also made Of the revival meetings.
In the course OF u recent sermon on the
dignity OF human nature, Henry Ward
Beecher spoke Us follows about the trial Of
DR.. Thomas:
at is an injury to the Church to try to
suppress free thought. love tho Metho-
dist Church for the grand work It has done,
but when see an important gathering like
that meeting In the West to cast out man
like the Rev. DR.. Thomas, u free proclaimer
Of the truth that Is revealed to him, man
Of sweet nature, OF fragrant piety, OF peace
and purity; when they cast out such man,
l say they have Gust out an angel to lot In
u devil. A church which cannot hold n
pure, noble, Christian man is not lit 10 live
and call itself Christian Church. II 1t
puts thumbscrews on men and racks them
Tor moral purposes, 1t Is no Church Of
Christ. No man owes anything 10 the
Church, but the Church owes all to him,
as the mother 10 the babe on her breast.
Woe to the time when men Of action and
thought cannot abide In any denomina-
ton" -......
The third Synod Of the Old Catholics Of
Austria has Just been held in Vienna, DR..
Under presiding. A petition was adopted
asking the government to insert a clause in
the budget making provision for the sup
port Of Old Catholic worship.
The Free Church in Cceebridge, High
lands OF Scotland has been in wrangle on
the posture to be assumed in prayer Some
are in favor Of sitting, against which many
protested, threatening that II the commu-
MON were handed to them under such con-
ditions they would fling It into the Ell.
ders' faces Hi..-
Let whatever appears TO be the best 10 TO
you an inviolable law. And II any in.
stance Of pain or pleasure, glory or dis
grace, be set before you, remember that
now Is the combat, now 0lympiad comes
on, nor can II be put oil; and that, by one
NllluIG uuu utle1att uOhO Hm9 w lOoF- vi
won. Thus Socrates became perfect, i'm
proving himself by everything, following
reason Alone And, though YOU are not
yet Socrates, YOU ought, however, to live
as one seeking to DO a Socrates. Il Epictet,D.
Mrs. DR.. Edison Is now in Cleveland,
where she was graduated at the lIomuo-
pathic College in 1854. She said to q re-
porter, who asked her whether the Presi.
dent realized that he was going TO die, ooh,
yes. The second day after he was shot he
said TO me, We'll, It's all over it's my
business TO be ready for death, and l have
always been ready. had work before me,
but after all perhaps IL Is better that 1t is
laid down where 1t is-unAnished. II was
great and trying work, and ain relieved
oft"
one Meal q Day.