The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-02-22
OUR SUNDAY COLUMN.

'"N NPSAo hOusSi "hSiS iouiSo Sesh iSo'S
their cloaks, parasols, etc, and thus
disencumbered sit in all the glory of
gorgeous raiment, and listen TO the word
Of Him who was meek and lowly.'
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH According
to statistics given in the Church Journal,
the Episcopal Church in 1860. before
the Act of Session was passed, had 81
Bishops, 2,02S clergymen in % dioceses,
1891 communicates, and 1892 Sun
day school scholars. There are now
80 diocesan and s missionary Bishops,
=, 7S0 clergy, with 900, 900 communicates
and 262, 129 Sunday school children.
The contributions for missionary and
church purposes for last year amounted
to 5000, I'D. There have been POS Or
dinations, and the deaths of the clergy,
including two Bishops, were IS.
LAST HouRs.-A writer in the hide
pendent gives the following narrative of
three Christians: Alexander Cruden,
after life OF anguish, died alone. The
clouds had been passing, and his mind
became clear and serene for the last
bright change. They missed him one
day. They found him at last. Hewas
kneeling in his closet, his Bible open
before him, his hands clasped as in
PRAYER, and the evidence of beatitica-
ton lingering that passed over his face
when Jesus disclosed his glory.
About century ago there labored
among the early Methodists Of Ireland
and England, young itinerant, whose
luminous soul seemed to dwell in the
very presence of the Shekinah. His zeal
was ardent, and his soul was too sharp
for the scabbard. His body wasted with
selfconsuming fire; hut his sonl grew
more luminous, and seemed 10 shine
through the rents OF ruin. He walked
in Beulah, and breathed the celestial
atmosphere on delectable mountains. A
cloud for moment shut out the pros
pect, the living river and the pinacles OF
light. He told his friends that he wished
to be left alone. Suddenly they heard
him exc'aining, as in sudden trans,
port "He, has come, my beloved Is mine
and | am his-his forever
As the poet-prcacher of Meth0dlsm
tells the incident in rhyme:
Tried to the last, but not forso0k,
But honUred with distinguished grace,
Heavenward he cast dying look,
And saw once more savior ; face.
He's come! My well-beloved,' he said.
And ain his, and he is miEe!
He spake, he gazed. he bowed his head,
And sunk into the arms divine
That man was Thomas Walsh.
John Grace was an old itinerant
preacher. who denied himself worldly
comforts, and who suffered persecution
for thirty years. On approaching an
English village where he desired TO
preach. he was taken i'll of fever. 4
man more humane than the rest, went
to him and asked him what he would
have? Water Ii was brought. he
drank and said Il shall soon drink Of
the river the streams whereof make glad
the city OF God.
REGULATIONS FOR Neutrality-suspicious.
similar to the following will be observed
bv the Catholics of,he Wheeling diocese
during the lenten season, which COM
mences to-day:
|. All the faithful who have cOmplet.
ed their twenty-frst year, unless leglti.
matelv dispensed, are bound TO observe
the fast Of lent,
>. They are TO make only one tull
meal a day excepting Sundays
3. The meal allowed on fast days *
not TO be taken till about noon.
/. At that meal, if on any day per
mission should be granted Tor eating
flesh. both flesh and fish are not to he
used at the same time, even 10y way o.
sauce Of continent.
}. A small refreshment commonly
called collation., is allowed in the even
ing. No general rule as TO the quantity
Of food permitted at this time is or can
be made but the practice of the most
regular christians is never to let 1t eX-
coed the fourth part OF an ordinary
meal
6. General usage has made it .awful
TO drink in the morning some warm
LIQUIDS, as tea, coffee or thin chocolate
made with water.
!. Necessity and custom have author
lied the use OF hogs lard instead OF
butter, in preparing fish. vegetables,
etc.
:. The following persons are exempt
ed from the obligation OF fasting
Young persons under twenty-one years
OF age, the sick, pregnant women, or
those giving, suck to infants, persons
obliged to do hard labor and all who
through weakness cannot fast without
great prejudice to their health.
9. By dispensation the use of flesh
meat will he allowed at any time on
SUNDAYS and once day on Mondays,
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
with the exception OF the Saturday in
Ember week and the last four days OF
Lent.
10. Persons dispensed from the obi
CATION of fasting are not bound by the
restriction Of using meat only at one
meal on days on which its use is grant.
ed by dispensation. Those who are
obliged to fast are permitted TO use meat
at one meal.
IL. The time for making the Easter
communion will date from the first
Sunday OF Len, t. Trinity Sunday in