WHAT CHEER, Iowa, city in Keokuk County. on Coal Creek and on the Chicago and North Western and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroads, about 70 miles southeast if Des Moines. ft is in an agri cultural and coal mining region, and has several industries connected with farm and dory It has six churches. The two have a combined capital of $80,000. Pop.
1.835 same kind as those brought forward by skeptical writers of the truth of the gospel narratives, founded on apparent inconsistencies and absurdities in these narratives, may be brought against any well-known and incon trovertible piece of history, such as that of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1822 Wbately de livered the Bampton lectures at Oxford, 'On the Use and Abuse of Party Feeling in Matters of Religion.' The samcyear he received the living of Halesworth in Suffolk, and was ap pointed principal of Saint Alban's Hall, Ox ford, in 1825. In 1825 was published perhaps the most widely known of his works, 'The Elements of Logic,' and the scarcely less popular 'Elements of Rhetoric' in 1828, Mate& was appointed professor of political economy in 1830. The lectures he then de
livered were afterward published under the title of 'Introductory Lectures on Political Economy.' In Oxford. Whately stood in the front rank of those who held liberal views in ecclesiastical and social matters and among these his earnest love of truth, his contempt for arguments resting solely on tradition and the keeness of his logic gave him great influence. In 1831 he was appointed archbishop of Dublin and bishop of Glendalough. The cause of na tional education in Ireland be warmly embraced and for 20 years was an active and influential member of the board. Consult 'Life and Correspondence of R. Whately, by his daughter, E. J. Whately (1866).