The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-10-06
CHURCH CHIMES,
some Of tho sweet BELLS just Little
tangled out Of Tune.


mputation has been thrown out, that
Presbyterisns are interesting themselves
ia this issue, because It affords them an
opportunity for propagandlsm in terrific
" hitherto hardly accessible. That i'm
putstion might be resented, II 1t did not
obviously spring from unworthy motives,
The Presbyterian church can have no
other interest In this grave question,
either in New England or out OF It, except
10 see that the truth and kingdom OF God
suiier no detriment, and that currency be
not given by:denominatioRal approval, o.
even denominRtional QuiesCGnGe, to what
II regarda as Is serious error. IL has even
been intimated that our own foreign
board is not unwilling 10 send out mis-
sionaries accepting the new theology, even
10 send out those whom the American
hoard hiss recently rejected, This IL o
mistake OF the sort that hardly needs con-
tradiCtion, The Presbyterian church has
no room either in it's creed, or in It's
tlIeologics or its pulpitH, for the dogma
Of q probation after death, appointed for
the heather, and for an indefnete mum.
Der OF others who have died without To-
ceivlng Christ,
Rey, DR.. Stevenson reyiewa in the West.
ern Advocate the growth Of tue Methodist
Episcopal church at the South during the
past five years. He says the progress has
been even greater among the whites than
among the blacks, actually, il not relative,
Ily, A comparison OF the table presented
in 1885 with that presented in 1882 shows,
moreover, that this progress belongs not
to the border conferences only, but to
those further south Rs well that with one
or two exceptions, the newer and smaller
conferences for whites, away from the Dor
der, have been growing at rate fully IS
rapid as the older and larger ones directly
on the border, TheinCIease for the whites
within the time stated, has been at the
ratio Of about 1000 members and ninety
churches and 81 paIsonages ut q valuation
OF about $275, 900 per annumi and Tor both
whites and blacks OF the rate OF about
1000 members and 100 churches, and 10
parsonages at valuation OF about $780,
600 per annum. Had the progress thus
shown besn make anywhere else, in all
tho world, II would be regarded as mar
yelous; and this is true OF the PROCESS
made from 1875, when tho church began
to put forth Its tiTst earnest efforts to re-
establish itself in the South down to the
present time,
Writing OF Protestant efforts In Spain
Rev, DR.. SChaf says in the Now York
Obsera: We have no expectation that
French or Irish, will over BIO converted to
Professionalism, Tho majority Of them
will probably remain Roman Catholics 10
tho end Of time, and 1t Is not impossible
that reform movements may proceed
from the bosom Of the Roman church
itself, such as JRnseniam In the 18th GEN.
tury, and Old Catholicism In our own day.
But minority OF those notions, more or
legg large and influential, may become, or
have SIready become, Protestant, and the
number OF congregations will increase as
long as the governments abstain from per.
seCution. The number OF Protestant con.
pregations in Spain exceeds sixty, cxClu-
aivs OF small preaching stations. The
number OF Spanish Professionals 10 estima.
ted 10 be about 1900, and the number
Of pupils who attend Protestant Sunday
and day schools, at 5000. There are two
Protestant book stores, one in Madrid,
and one In Barcelona. -Four periodicals
spread evangelical principles in the Span.
ish language, The lsb0rers are partly
spaniards, including some converted
priests, partly foreigners from SwitEer.
land, Germany, England ard America,
belonging to different denominations.
Noting tho spread Of religious persecu-
ton is Russia, lie ChriStiGniSmc says: Tho
Gar proposes to ro.eBtabllsh unity OF
faith by forcing into thspale OF the Greek
church Polish Catholics and Lithuanian
Pedestrians. Jows arc driven ont OF the
country. The governors OF Podolia and
Ukraine, not content with closing every
public Office 10 tho Jews, arc now shut
ting them out OF other occupations. The
lawyers OF these provinces are ordered to
dismlps all Jewish ClelKs-that ia the ma.
jority OF their Cmployes-wlthin two
months. The same order is to be Issued
in the southwest provinces, where Rus
sian Jews are gathered 90 in an immense
Ghetto. In the Baltic provinces the at.
tack Is directed against the Lutheraus,
who form tho great majority OF the popu.
lation. The governor Of Esthonia inter-
dlcts the sale and circulation OF any relig-
ious journal not OF the orthodox faith.
Lutheran pastors are forbidden to CritiCisa
or discuss any actions or doctrines OF the
Greek church. In tho province Of wilma
excitement 10 great, and new evils are
feared. 10 II any wonder that disturban-
Ces should arlse2
Whether tho new orthodoxy respecting
the life after death Is to be accepted In
tho Orthodox Congregational churches is
a question yet undecided. But there are
theological regions In which It's reception
is all that its advocates could wish. Uni.
tarians, Univetsalists and the ao.Called
liberals Of all shades, including some
daily newspapers that are essentially or.
gGns Of "liberal" and "fres" religion, have
only welcome for it-BoStOn Ratchmun.
We would kindly but firmly admonish
our Congregational brethren who are get
ting rather aorid OH tho question OF An.
doyer-iuture probahon-Alden, etc.,
they say and how they say it, the ungodly
will certainly believe that they have lost
tho knack Of speaking tho truth. It re-
quires so many statements OF the "exaCt
facts" TO bring out the truth that the pub.
lie are in danger Of thinking the truth Is
not In them. How melancholy 1t would
DO II "the issue" between the old and the
new orthodoxy should turn out to be an
tissue OF iact,"-ChriSlian Leader.
The Bishop Of Rochester does not ap.
prove OF tho popular Clanor for brief ser.
mong. "Do not" he advises his eCclesi.
astical aubordinates, "readily give In to
what 10 often only a worldly cry for short
sermons. You need great deal more
experience than you can claim now for
making a 10 minuts' sermon that OhRll be
really useful, Either so much will be
compressed into 1t that It will become