The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-02-27
affecting Aeaister,
OUR SUNDAY COLUMN.


and liberty or death should he its watch
word.
The clergy of the Irish Episcopal
Church are firm in their opposition to
ritualism.
The Koreu Christians in Burmah are
now very numerous, and their churches
are selEsupporting.
Temptations are enemies outside the
castle of the heart, seeking entrarce 1t
is for the heart to say shall they be per-
mitted to enter?
The Rev. DR.. r. G. Thompson, OF
Newark, n. j., has gone to New Or
leans, as professor in the College Of
Louisiana.
A revival is in progress in Lynchburg
Va. There are 100 inquirers; 80 have
been baptised, and so more have pro
fessed faith in Christ
The Rev. DR.. G. w. Wood, Secretary
Of the American Board of Missions at
New York, is to return to his old field Of
labor at Constantinople.
The American Board of Missions have
college in the Sandwich Islands. one
in Turkey, one in Syria, and another to
be started in the island Of Ceylon.
All the Greenlanders now profess
Christianity, with the exception Of one
station, in the neighborhood Of which
they are heather.
Forty-fve native preachers closed their
preparatory training last year under the
American Board, and the number in
training this year is about the same.
The new moral suasion temperance
movement in Massachusetts was to be
publicly inaugurated by State Conven-
ton in Faneuil Hall. Boston, on the Odd
inst.
All the feelings and affections OF the
Christians heart should open into life
like lilies by the water-course, and deep
amid the blossom-petals should be seen
the golden crown Of love.
The Presbyterian Church began its
work of foreign missions thirty-eight
years ago. The result of the recent
arrangement with the American Board,
will increase its total Of communicates.
From the Popish Annals we learn that
during the last five months Of 1868 there
left Europe for foreign fields, IS Roman
Catholic male missioners, two teachers,
"a sisters, and several Belgium nuns for
Calcutta.
The Rev. DR.. Sampson, President OF
Columbian College, Washington, has
lately been elected President of the
National Telegraph Memorial Associa-
tion-its business to erect monument
to Prof Morse.
The Blue Rapids Church, Presbyte-
rian, is the largest and strongest of Its
age in the State of Kansas. 1t is due to
the fact that two hundred have gone to
the settlement Of the best class of West
ern New York families.
The missionaries Of the American
Baptist Missionary Union in Burmah,
appeal to the brethren in America to
send more men to occupy the important
field of British Burmah, to plant new
stations and strengthen the whole.
The Nonconformist says that an active
movement is now going on in London
for securing reciprocal action between
the clergy Of the English Church and the
dissenting ministers, that they may be
able, under Episcopal sanction, to preach
in each others pulpit.
The Episcopalians have settled Mis-
sionary Bishop, the Right Rev. D. S.
futile, in Salt Lake City, with diocese
of3l4, 900 square miles. He has achurch
school of more than 200 pupils, and finds
more than $4,000 Mormons who have
been baptised in the Church Of England.
The Rev. DR.. Clark, another Secre'
tary of the American Board, is soon to
visit the missions in Western Asia.
He goes partly for the benefit of his
health, and will be accompanied by the
daughter Of the late DR.. Dwight, and
Mary S. Williams, who go out as mis-
sionaries.
In Chill the political parties have for
some time been divided, as in Mexico,
mainly on questions Of religion. The
anti-clerical party is so strong that, IN
the exciting canvass now in progress, it
is thought quite possible that the Llber-
ais Will elect their President, although
the wealth and influence of the church
party are very hard to overcome.
The great London preacher, Spur
geon, began life in that city as usher IN
a school at Newmarket; delivered ser.
mons at the age of seventeen; and gained
a reputation as the boy Preacher:
For months he preached in a barn in
Waters each, and drew such crowds that
numbers could not get inside, but
stood without to catch the sound OF his
voice.