The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-01-17
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RELIdIoUs DRIPT.

nounced meetings for each evening Dire
even smaller audiences than the reeula
prayer meetings. Many ministers who al
in hearty sympathy with the Observance
the week say that unless more interest
shown the custom may aswell be dropped
Edward Kimball, the famous achurc
debt raiser" has raised in all about S 600
600 for the relief Of morgaged churches
He Is beset with applications continual
and works where he can. He thinks tn
raising Of church debt Is not prope
part Of q ministers work, and says that tn
lay management of church should hay
provided the requisites for worship an,
given them to the Lord as an unmutilate,
and perfect offering,
General Grant paid $1,000 for his pew il
DR.. Newman's Madison Avenue IN. Y.
Congregational Church. Grant follows hi
friends in politics and religion.
A writer in the Ninsecnh Century, dis
cussing the question whether agnostics car
consistently attend church, arrives at the
following conclusions:
at is postulated that the teaching Of the
church does more good than harm-direct
ly and indirectly.
"iEhe abstention OF our supposititiouS
agnosiic will act Us an example to induce
others to stay away, not from conviction,
but from laziness or worse motives.
ut will tend to prevent that cordial CO.
operation with the parson which, in small
district Is so important for the welfare Of
the neighborhood.
ut will not only neutralize in great
measure his own power for good, but also
diminish that OF the parson.
"lf he believe these things he need not
fear being himself an unconscious hypo.
critic.
Therefore, under these circumstances
the agaostie is not only justified in being,
but II true to his creed, is bound TO be n
regular attendant ut church for the good Of
others and the advancementof humanity"
Some Of our exchanges arc expressing the
opinion that Bob. Ingcrsoll is changing bis
views somewhat in theological matters.
They point to his recent beautiful address
at the grave OF a child in Washington as
evidence OF this. That address is not out
Of keeping, We presume, with the creed OF
the Col. He has professed to discard
hope as to the hereafter. However, it pre-
sents great contrast to much.of his ba-
tant 'ribaldry on the lecture platform. The
fact is that all intelligent and thoughtful
men become conservative on such subjects
as they advance in years, and Ingersoll is
not likely to be an exception.
We have already published in the INTEL
loENcER what the Col. said on the occasion
referred to, but us it is now a matter Of
comment and criticism, We republish it, as
follows:
every cradle asks us "Whence?" and
every coffin, "Whither" The poor bar
bRrian, weeping above his dead, can an
swer these questions as intelligently and
satisfactory as the ROBBED priest Of the most
authentic creed. No man, standing where
the horizon oil life, has touched a grave,
has any right TO prophesy future filled
with pain and tears. 1t may be that death
gives all there is Of worth to life. If those
who press and strain against our hearts
could never die, perhaps that love
would wither from the earth. May be
this common fate treads from out the
paths between our hearts the weeds Of sell
iishness and hate, and Lhad rather live and
love where death is king, than have eter'
nal life where love is not. Another life is
naught, unless We know and love again the
ones who love US here. They who stand
with breaking hearts around this little
grave need have no fears. The larger
and tho nobler faith in all that is and is to
be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is
only perfect rest. We know that through
the common wants OF life-the needs and
duties Of each hour-their grief will lessen
day by day, until ut last this grave will be
to them place Of rest and peace-almost q
joy. There is for them this consolation;
The dead do not suffer. Ifthey live again,
their lives will surely be as good as ours
We have no fear. We are all children Of
the same mother, and the same fate awaits
US oil. We, too, have our religion, and it i.
this: Help for the living-hope for the
dead.
The London Tina gives the Church O.
Rome this warning:
1.-THE pope would 90 from Rome never
TO return. The Papacy divorced from Romt
might be powerful still; it might emergC
even more majestic than ever; in either
and any event it would not be the PapacS
the world and history have known; i
would be new thing and a new creature
How the present ecclesiastical generation
nurSed in an Italian cradle, habituated Il
Italian modes OF thought and sentiments
could bear 10 be severed from its home i
is for itself to weigh. For Italian Car
dinals and flor an Italian Pope it mus
be almost more portentous than 4
conceive Of Italy and its pcopl,
living and learning without them
II the Italian Government doe
not repress disorders which might de
velop from insolence into violence, tn
Papacy might be physically obliged to Qui
its birthplace. II the Papacy insist upoI
holding itself out as u victim and marty
in the Vatican, Italy has no power to kee
1t there. But it may safely be predicte
that whichever side incurs the ultimat
guilt Of swapping, through spitetulness q
through recklessness, the connection Of tn
Italian Nation and the Papacy, will hay
TO bear a heavy load Of responsible
| for indefinite perils and troubles, as we
in the judgment Of the Italian peopl
itself rs in that Of the Catholic Church"
Professor Samuel NJ. Hopkins, D. D
writing in the current number Of the Pre-
bueiqn RcriaO on the liturgical movcmer
in the Presbyterian body, says; 1.-THE nun
Der OF Presbyterian ministers who openl
advocate the use Of some form of prayer
large, and the number of those who hoI
and anxiously wait for it, much large
That the churches themselves are ready
welcome some such Improvement is plai
enough. That the ministry themselves al,
feel the want Of u liturgy is constant
showing itself. It Is by no means uncon