The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-03-18
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A worry large number OF the most
prominent Sunday school workers Of
this country arc going TO London In
June. to attend a Worlds Third Sunday
School convention. 1ngorder TO make
the contention begin as aoon as the
delegates start from home. those in the
southwest arc 10 gather IN ST. Louis,
spending Saturday and Sunday, June 20 /
md q. there, as GUESTS OF the local un.
lon. Those from the northwest are &c, /
do the same In Chicago, tho guests OF
the Chicago Union. All are then 10
tourney TO Boston together, picking up
delegates on the way. In fremont
Temple. Boston. on the night before
Ealing, Tuesday evening, June 2S.i the
Massachusetts sunday School AssoeIa-
ton tender a reception. Once on board
ship. discussions are TO begin at once,
repeating the plan that proved 80 de-
llghtful nine years ago, The dates of
the London gathering are July II 10 ls,
and Sunday School workers will be
present from every part OF the Chris
tlan world. q 4. {. y & = 4
Both the Roman Catholic and the
Anglican Catholic churches are ex-
,remely anxious to secure closer afIilla-
ton with the Greek Catholic church.
the pope issuing several general ad.
dresses that were really directed to II.
aud the archbishcps OF Canterbury and
York taking special pains TO have a RUS
sian representative at the queens jubl.
lee last May. When the pope pronounce
ed Anglican orders invalid, the Rus
sian church at once pronounced them
valid and the religious coquetfy has
Just taken on new phase In the act Of
the Russian church In the ycanonizat!on
OF ST. IsaGore and the seventy-two
martyrs OF Dorpat. This saint and
these martyrs were drowned as heret-
les come four hundred years ago upon
orders from Rome because they Insisted
upon their Greek "heresles, and refused
10 obey the Roman patriarch OF Con-
stantinople. Now the Holy Russian
Synod ordalns a special order for the
memory OF these martyrs and assigns
to them January s.
In the noon hour services for business
folk, held in churches centrally located
In eight or ten cities this Lent, the pro-
portion OF men In attendance is larger
than ever before. In Boston and Phila-
delph!a special measures have been ta-
ken to ascertain the exact number of
men attending. SO that the figures are
rot estimates, but actual counts. Coun-
with the duty OF keeping accurate rec
ords OF the sex OF those who enter. The
change from last year Is said to equal
3 to 10 per cent increase In number OF
men. and to be observed in every city
where the services are held III
The McGifert matter has, taken a
new turn. Every Presbyterian paper
derounces the teachings OF the McGlt-
fert book, but oil deptecate a heresy
trial, no, because the offence does not
warrant one, but because they doubt
the efficacy OF the remedy. So, practlc-s
ally by common consent an effort Is
making to induce Professor NJ Gifrert to
resign from the Presbytery to which he
belongs. Opposition to him continues
to come as much from the liberal ele-
ment as from the so-ealled conservative
one. and both sides are EQUALLY strong
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There Is some talk OF the; general as
sembiy in May dlsarowing the book.
without waiting for appellate proceed
ings to reach II. There is, however. a
vt:g feverish disposition apparent, and
trial for heresr may be precipitated
at my time.
Jews are frankly wondering whether
there exists in America an anti-semitlc
feeling comparable with the acknowl-
edged feeling in Europe. Some of the
NOS; learned Jews have just been
heard on the subject and they agree in
thinking that the prejudice to Jews .ex-
tstlng In social resorts and other quar-
ters is not anti-SemItlsm. but attrib-
utabie 10 lack Of culture on the part Of
come which has too hastily been charg-
ed 10 all. They point out that the
rights OF Jews in continental countries
such as they are, were given by parlla-
mentary grants; here there are rights
belonging to all citizens. for, which no
one need thank anybody. These Jewish
leaders, who include Prof. Morris Jas
trow. IT,, the Rev. DR.. Kohler, Leo. n.
Levi, OF Galveston, Texas; DR.. Arnold
OF Baltimore. and the Rev. DR.. Gross
mann, OF Detroit, unite in thinking that
such prejudice as does exist against
Jews here Is diminishing slowly, and as
Jews themselves more and more merit
equality, will more and more receive It,
and that no European prejudice or anti
semit!sm will stand In the way.
A notable pastorate has just been
begun in New York. 1t is that ofSthe
Rev. Charles Edward Jefferson, once
an Ohio lad, who has made his way
through a $4,000 pastoratc In Chelsea,
Mass. to $4,000 year one in Broad
way Tabernacle church, New York.
This church Is the Oldest Congregational
one in that city, and It has played an
important part In Congregational and
also In national history. In the former
It. more than any other, united the
west and the east and made Congre-
gationallsm national, and In the latter
1t helped to make history during the
war, on one Sunday morning placing