The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-01-13

such subject than Mr.. Gladstone. He
is the acknowledged foremost scholar
OF Europe. He achieved fame when
he was young at Oxford as deep and
serious student by carrying on the
double first" prize for high scholar
ship; and as far back as 1916 Macauley
took special notice Of him because OF
tract he had written on Church and
State" Since then he has had TO do
with theso-called. religious questionrin
Europe in all It's phases. as n political.
social and even personal matter.
He has. In once and art. exploited It
as m issue erecting. the balance OF
power in Europe: for instance, as con-
nected, long ago! with America: as con-
neoted with the availability dogma,and
as connected with the missionary cause
ID India and China. It has been part
OF the home rule agitation, and OF
course a large part OF the "dIsestab-
Ashment" issue. 50 that the writer OF
the North American Review series is
thoroughly furnished, II ever a man
was, 10 discuss thsgreat question that
he has set out to consider.
This series OF articles which Mr..
Gladstone Is preparing for the Review
will run through several numbers OF
that periodical. The FIRST one is before
Us In the January humber. It Is a Pc
cullar article, rather abstruse for popu-
lar reading. but apparently is simply
pioneering the ground on which he ex-
poets 60 build his fabric OF argument
later on. He makes literal use Of
well known text book on natural the
ology, Buffers "AnoIogy." as an auxili-
a-y to his ultimate purpose. Strange
to gay. he does not give very decided
endorsement to some OF the apologies
put forward by Butler as quasi proof
OF life beyond the grave. This is all
the more remarkable because at the
English universities, and the American
as well. Bishop Buffers logic in the
matter OF APOLOGIES Is esteemed almost
mathematical in is force. But Mr..
Gladstoue's highly disciplined facilities
have made him both quick and prone
% see weak joints in controversial ar
NOR, and hence. while he makes use OF
the anolosieS set UP by Butler to show
the likellhoods OF continued existence
after death. he does not give them un-
qualified endorsement.
One OF these anologies refers 10 the
fact that there Is In man o living be-
Ins'that seemingly exists independently
OF physical being. Science has never
been able 20 locate 1t as distinct en-
tity, nor yet to account for 1t as pro-
perry OF matter. All We know Is that
there Is a something within that doml-
mates the situation in health and sick
ness and clear on down to "articulo
rnortIs" itself But this fact. as Mr..
Gladstone says In his Article. Is COM
mon, TO degree at least. TO animals as
well as to man. The dog may lose his
ave senses. and may have his limbs am
putated. and his remaining body may
be rottiag In the sun. and yet there Is
also 4 living being in him that to the
last dominates the situation. There
fore,he too.may exist after deathas well
as man, and on q scale relative to man.
the same as in this world. Why not7
Mr.. Gladstone refuses to deny that the
argument for man Is thus Handicapped
by the argument for the animal
Apropos to this handicap, K may be
noted here that there Is In an eastern
city In this country society that holds
TO the post norton existence OF anil
mails, and It is organized on this idea,
and Is an aid or auxiliary TO the larger
society for the prevention OF cruelty to
animals. It's members hold that the
horse may well be the aecuser of his
owner In the next world for crucltles
inflicted upon him In this life Without
regard to the grounds on which this
theory rests, 1t seems like wholesome
opinion to have spread abroad in the
land.
While not aiming at all to get rid OF
the handicap referred to. Mr Gladstone
sees, Of course, much more reason and
probability for the future life OF the
man than OF the animal There Is the
matter OF moral qualities, especially
conscience, to be taken into the account
on the side OF man, and more important
still. there ore the disciplinary uses OF
suffering. all OF which are inapplIcable
10 animals. There Is. too. the matter OF
rectlhcation and compensation for en-
tailed misery. The Intelligence and
conscience OF man Irresistibly cry out
for compensation at the hands OF a
Just and responsible Author OF Nature.
be he whom or what he may be. "Je-
hovnh, Jove or Lord" II there are
any moral qualities involved in the Gre
alton and existence OF che universe,
they must supplement the baffled and
unfulhlled and crushed purposes OF
myrfads Of lives In this world. As this
seems impossible here, It must be ut
least probable hereafter.
We make these references TO the
trend OF che argument to show some
thing OF the ground which Mr.. Glad
stone has set out 20 cover In his Re-
view series. AS we said, tho January
article is seeming pioneer and pre-
fatory clearing OF the way for what is
to follow. He does not disclose his ul-
innate line OF thought at all clearly.
and we are left to speculate whether he
will in his final array lean most on ma
ture or revelation.
1t 10 great thing to see such IN ex-
allied character as Mr.. Gladstone, who