Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-02-16
TOPICS OF SUNDAY.
SlGsF REVEREND BlSsOP RAMS OPENING
LENIES LECTURE
ars. lSG1p Gives AZ Ekqlsl, Address uPan
Temperance al the Opera House
Fullerton Delivers Discourse
on AmuSmeniS.

Cathedral last evening TO listen 70
bishop Kain's first lecture on the
Rites and Ceremonies OF the Catholic
the subject which the Bishop
proposes treating every Sunday after
noon during Lent.
In his introduction, the Right Rev
erend spea ker remarked that ii would
be very unjust 10 the church TO suppose
that Catholics substitute external rites
and outward show for true spiritual
worship.
There i no antagOniSm, he said, be-
tween the use OF exterior ceremonies,
be these plain and simple or grand and
imposing, and inward dispositions Of
soul which constitute, n all admit, the
very essence OF Divine worship. 30 Tar
from being hindrance To spiritual
worship, appropriate rites and ceremo-
mics serve 20 promote il. Indeed, there
can be no public worship without some
external ceremonies: and II ceremonies
are necessary they must OF course be
lawful.
This necessity, the Bishop explained,
must be understood in the strioteSt
sense Of those particular ceremonies
only which God had Himself instituted,
aud which are called sacramento. Al
other rites and ceremonies were necsS-
Sary only relatively, that is, II those
now in use were set aside, others must
be substituted, since public worship
imperatively demands some external
obSeryauceS. This follows from the
very nature OF man, composed as he Is,
OF body aS well Is OF soul.
Not only has society its code OF APP
proved forms. but every branch OF 50
ciety mas it, own recognized formalities
which are strictly enforced. Estao-
lished etiquette may indeed be modified,
but IL cannot be entirely abolished. so
too il is impossible for men 10 associate
themselves in the Performance Of public
acts OF worship, without the Introduce
ton and observance Of certain cOnVen-
tional practices. However little i'm
pprtance men may pretend to attach TO
these uSages, they cannot dispense
with them. They may restrict the NUM-
Der and tone down the nature OF their
religious ceremonies, but in the
very poverty and simplicity OF their
rites they may be, of all Journalists the
most rigid. This i Strikingly eXem-
plihed ia the case Of the QUakerS. None
could be more tenacious than they are
I'm their adherence 10 what may be
called their religious etiquette. Re
H-iou> ceremonies OF some kind being a
necessity. is there any special merit IN
having them a meagre a. possible? II
-. g.. rrnff
tain forms of worship because 81 simple,
aud deridiug Catholic worship because
accompanied by ~ many more ceremo-
MES. AID yet nothing is more common
than % contrast Protestant aud Catholic
services, and 70 infer that the former iS
more spiritual because so much palmer.
such certainly Is not the order OF d.
vine worship which We mud inculcated
hy God Himself IN the Bible. The min
ute and multiplied ceremonies institute
ed by God aud rigidly enforced by His
command do not bear ont the common
SuppoSition that the divine wor-
ship is pure aud spiritual in proportion
a. 70 is free from external rites.
Again: The inspired picture drawn
by -. John of the heavenly worship Is
not calculated 10 convince Us that ab-
sence OF ceremonial observanceS Gu
hances such homage in the eyes OF God.
lis true the Old Law has been abro-
gated, but the Divine sanction once
given 70 its gorgeous ritual proves that
religious ceremonies OF themselves are
not inconsistent with the holieSt wor'
ship Of the Deity.
IL. a do pa.
BILE length on the conversation between
our Lord and the Samaritan woman and
showed that the alteration OF God in
spirit and truth there alluded 10, doe:
not exclude external rites and ceremO-
nies in the divine worship. Oul
Saviour does not certainly say any
thing of the kind II from
these words, we were allowed TO draw 4
seeming inference, we might maintain
that under the Christian diSpensation,
temples or churches for the worship OF
God would be abOlished-a conclusion
ProtestantS would repudiate as vehem-
emily "a we would; but in promising an
increase of spiritual worship, our Lord
does not in anywise iOretell the aboli-
ton of exterior ceremonies.
An inspired ceremonial book like that
OF LeviticuS was not, for many reasons,
necessary 10 the Christian church, which
had received ample powers from the
Divine Founder 10 regulate whatever
pertains To the worship Of God. More
over many OF the Jewish ceremonies
were prophetic. requiring therefore iol
their institution the gift OF inspiration.
whilst the ceremonies Of the Christian
church that bear typical or mystical
Specification, serve only to recall trains
that have been already revealed; oui
this view of the subject will be more
fully developed next sunday, when III,
Bishop will lecture on 1.-THE use and al
vantageS of ritual ObServanceS.
MRS. LArHROP AT THE OPERA HOUSE
The Opera House was well-flled yes
terday afternoon TO listen to the elO
Iouent address OF Mrs. Mary +. LathrOp
OF Michigan, on the Ssbiect of "Prohi
bition. Her discourse was interesting
At all times. and she was frequently in
terrupted by applause. After prayer by
DIR. Cunningham, Mrs. Lathrop was in
troduced by DR.. Cushing. Following is
a synopsis OF her remarks:
There is manifested a growing diSpo-
>ition 10 make wide difference between
gospel temperance on the one side and
so-called political temperance on the
other side. On account OF this Separa'
ton we are being hindered in our work
on both aud political sides. People
declare that the temperance move
ment should not be- brought
into politics: that its place is In the
moral and religious realm. Not in the
past fifteen years hage The drinking
classes been 30 far from the reach OF
the church a. to-day.
The problem OF temperance will never
/ be solved until gospel and legal temper
ance are united The same principles
/ lie on each side, aud the cause will only
triumph when they come together
/ Men appear TO have two sides To their
nature, one finely moral, by which they
treat their families aud the other a POI
Ilitical side. twisted and distorted, by
which they go to the polls and vote for
I the perpetuatiOn Of the iniquitOuS SyS-
tenn which they profess to condemn.
+ We are criticised for bringing the tenn
perance question into the political realm,
bat il has suffered nothing by il. We
Americans should bc the last people in
the world 10 be afraid Of any moral
question entering politics.
The temperance question has come to
the realm Of politics for settlement be
cause the moral means employed in its
solution are wholly inadequate 10 meet
the case. The Christian church, by its
methods in the past, has been a6le TO
offer no perccptible check to the steady
growth Of the civil and political legal
i.ed liQuQr traffic 1t is fair to say that
~, Wesler Eac one hundred years