Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-09-24
The RELIGIOUS Press.

The Standard says The Freethinkers
have given up the idea OF Il university now.
SeCtarian institutions are too expensive
luxury, they say. Furthermore, to use the
language of one of their spokesman, 1.-The
part of wisdom would seem to be to leave
the work of education to agnostic Harvard
and Cornell, which are swiftly and certain
~ manufacturing the advocates of the
broader PHILOSOPHY - of modern times
This is pretty bold, We must say. How
ever, it is not our battle. We leave it to
Harvard and Cornell TO deny, if they can,
the soft Impeachment
The Star anil COrCnGHt SAYS that the COM
m on notion concerning the fall of Adam
and its effects is not sustained either by
revelation or right reason; that much that
generally goes for prayer is only idolatrous
petition or superstitious fOrmality.
The Living Church says that in this,
more than any other Christian country.
there are a vast number of unbaptised men
and women; that the recent anniversary OF
the Church of England's Working Mems
Society gives hopeful indication of the pro-
gress of church principles among class
which ordinarily is little interested in the
work and principles Of the church; that it
would seem a far more decent and Chris
tan thing if condemned felons went out
of the world simply saying God be merci-
full to me, a sinner" than with the conf
dent assurance OF Going to Jesus"
The Refigio- Philosophical Journal SAYS that
notwithstanding the fact that SpiritualiSm
has been Illuminating the world ever since
the tiny wraps were first heard at Hydes-
Vile, it has not succeeded in dispelling the
intense darkness that exists i'll the Presby
terrain Church with reference to the exist
ence of a hell, the lurid flames of which
int a1 hv
direct act of God, in order that he might
cruelty torture his own children; that by
and by a new religion will be inaugurated,
wherein it will be impossible for inharmo-
ny to exist.
The Standard says that the blasted fer
tunes and ruined souls for which whisky
and whisky patronage is to be held account
able make up fearful record against some
one; that knowledge of wickedness is suf-
ficient proviCation to crime with some mis-
cradle minds. and how much the press,
with its copious details of vice and crime,
is responsible for the contagion, is fit sub
ject for sober thought that the Congress
siOnal Committee have struck q bonanza il
they can brighten all the one hundred thou
sand office holders in the country to stand
and deliver per cent oftheir salaries on pain
of walking the plank; that it looks now on
the surface as il there would be ere long q
rebellion against the civil authorities in the
country of the Latter Day Saints; that in
proportion as expeditions OF the New Testa-
ment are elaborate they are liable to be err
roneous; that upon the battle-helds OF re-
ligious wars those great immunities have
been fought for and won which are now in
respect to political and social institutions,
as well as those of reli Sion the richest her
itage of our times; that just so far as belief
in religious creels is disturbed the basis
of moral conduct is removed and demorali-
Zatisn advances.
The AdrGncc says that for the first time
in centuries the Egyptians seem 70 be
moved by a true spirit OF patriotism; that
the rascality of the July wheat deal does
not lie merely in the fact that men en-
gagged in getting up the corner play a
deliberate, concealed trick in order to
plumber the other parties to the transac-
ton, demoralizing the whole market but
in the effect of it on the people who have
to pay 8 fictitious price for every loaf,
and thus render extsrted tribute to
these market-manipulating raScals; that
although the chief sinners in the
star route conspiracy to rob the Govern
ment, and to get others with them TO per-
lure themselves, escape the dungeon by
means of a 'hung jury" they will by no
means escape the brand OF infamy VIII ich
the almost universal popular verdict as
signs them: that the system of eNtorting
from the Government employees, however
scrimp their salaries, 2 per cent voluntary
contributions" to be used-how, no fellow
outside the ring Of machine" manifesto
tons will ever find out, is thoroughly bad,
and has at length come to be disreputable;
that the Edmunds bill is only 3 superficial
and eyaSive measure.
The Northwestern Christian advocate says
that every one who claims to be personally
saved should be expected to vindicate that
claim by bringing some one else to the
same experience; that if prohibitory laws
are only to be enacted where they can be
perfectly executed, then all prohibitory
laws should be abandoned for cities; that
the various societies established to give
pecuniary help in q metropolis ought to De
thoroughly organized so that not
only fraudulent mendicancy may be
avoided, but that all the really
worthy poor should be helped;
that Mr.. Hubbell will go into
private life as the champion. and il hopes
and believes, the last defender of q corrupt
and corrupting system: that a man who
will eat bread earned By abusing the reli-
giOn Of Jesus and then try 10 earn fee by
utilizing for rhetorical purposes the most
pathetic scene in the history of that reli-
gion, as Ingersoll did in addressing the Star
Route jury. is certainly as devoid of moral
honesty as the man whom the jury con-