The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-05-13
OUR SUNDAY COLUMN.

Ohio.
The Rev. Thomas J. Brown, of the
Logan Square Presbyterian church
has accepted the cali rendered to him
by the Westminster church in Utica
New York.
The Rev. William Stewart, of Water.
ford, New Jersey, was found on Easter
Monday dying in his garden, and before
any medical assistance could be sum
moned he was dead.
The Rev. Hugh Lane, pastor of St
Theresa's Catholic church, has taken
preliminary steps towards organizing q
beneficial society among the female
members Of his congregation.
The Rev. DR.. Breed, pastor of the
West Spruce Street Presbyterian church
sailed for Europe on Thursday, the
Goth ult., intending to pass several
months in recreation and travel.
The continued i'll health of the Rev.
John Monteith, with a disease which is
pronounced incurable, unless he aban-
dons ministerial labor, has compelled
his resignation of the pastorate Of the
Mayfower church, st. Louis.
The Pacific Chwchman says that
Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, has been
invited to take the diocese of Honolulu,
in the Sandwich Islands. 1t is thought
he may accept the position on account
of his health requiring milder eli
mate
Two missionaries of the American
board have recently died-Rev. Horace
S. Taylor, of the Maduro (India) mis-
sion, who died February 3, at the age
Of fifty seven, and Rev. w. F. Williams,
who died at Mardin, Turkey, February
II, at the age of fifty-three.
During the session of the general
assembly of the Presbyterian church in
the United States of America, to By
held in Chicago this month, a daily
paper will be issued, called the Duly
General assembly Jownai, containing a
full report of the proceedings of the
assembly.
A convention administers and laymen
from all the annual conferences in the
Southern States is to be held in Athens,
Georgia, on June Is, and the two fol-
lowing days, for the discussion Of edu-
cational and other practical questions
relating to the progress Of christian
work in the South
The Rev. Theodore l.. Cuyler, D. D.
recently preached his quarter century
sermon, in which he stated that during
the twenty-five years of his ministry he
has not been detained from the pulpit
by sickness but one Sabbath. He has
preached about t, 900 sermons, and has
received 1921 persons into church
fellowship
The general synod of the Reformed
church at its late session in Harrisburg
recommend the raising of $4,000 for
the church building fund during the
present year. Ninety-two churches
have contributed 3,7S9.S9, and three
hundred and seventy-one remain to be
heard from. The secretary laments the
meagre result Of the effort.
The Methodist says the three years
rule for ministers works well in New
England. Twenty-Five ministers who
had served in their respective charges
two wears were returned to the same
churches for the third year, and thir,
teen closed their third years pastorate
Most Of them testify that the third year
was the most successful of the three.
The Rev. T. P. w. Magruder, a for
mer member of the late Schuyler Pres
bytery, and signer of the declaration
and testimony, who renounced the
jurisdiction of that Presbytery because
of the action of the assembly of 1867
that met in Cincinnati, has been re
ceived as a member of the Presbytery
of central Ohio. He is now preaching
for the church at Bladensburg, Ohio.
The Methodist congregation al
Holmesburg has been worshiping fol
sixty years in a building known as the
"Old Stone Church" Steps are now
being taken toward the erection Of 8
building on one Of the finest lots or
Main street The new church is to be
a frame one, the cost of which is moi
expected to exceed $1,000. The corner
stone will be laid some time during the
summer.
The Chinese Mission church of Sar
Francisco, California, under the care o.
Rev. A. w. LOOMS, numbering tifteer
members, has contributed seventy-five
dollars to the Memorial fund, fifty dol
lars of which is to be appropriated tc
the erection Of a training school fol-
Cinnamon in San Francisco, and thu
remaining twenty-five to the education
of a native medical and theological
student in Canton.
VIRGINIA is fast recovering from tn
afYaots NJ the var and Governor Wake