The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-01-31

L DE hcluOulot SuuiSh oHN Po'
age at Charleston, Missouri, were en-
tirely destroyed by fire, December 70.
THE Welsh Calvanistic Methodists
in this country number 100 ministers,
10000 members, and 1873 churches.
ACCORDING to the Churchman'S Year
Book, one-third of the Episcopal'clergy
have changed their places in the past
year.
And let the people say Amen,
amen! Blacker than the darkest rest
ing place be the portion Of those who
would grind the face of Gods poor.
Give them air, give them sunshine, give
them blessing
If you want your heart to leap with
in you, speak good word, do kind
act. Let not another day pass without
both these appearing on the list Of yonr
daily virtues.
Do YOU not love picture gallery?
such an one, for instance, as Aston
has prepared for you, and will gallantly
show you? Make your own heart a
picture gallery, with God himself the
painter of the graces.
On! cannot do good, like A, B and
G.. Can You not? Did you ever try?
Saying so will not take away your re-
sponsibility. Try, try, try to do good,
before you 60 off into dirge music.
If YOU realize not who made you and
for what end, do the works of God and
YOU shall know and realize, to the fair
fruition of the present joy, and to the
full frution Of future blessedness.
TAKE that child out Of the way Of
evil! In rags, It's true; but it is some
body's child, whom nobody seems to
care for. You were once somebody's
chilli, and care saved you, so far as you
may be called saved. Save that child :
THE trustees of the Young Mems
Christian Association of Brooklyn are
taking vigorous steps for the erection of
a building corresponding to the growing
demands for accommodation. What
are the young men OF Wheeling doing
in the same line? Now is the time for
action.
twenty young Swedes have been
imported by Prof Haeselquist, of the
Lutheran Theological Seminary, at
Paxton, Ill.,, to supply, as the Spring
field Journal puts it, the demand for
clergyman of his sect. Yes, and if the
wants of any Of them were brought to
the heart of Christina Nilsson, her
voice would respond, and sing them a
full supply.
The new methodist Home" at Phil
adelphia is nearly finished. About two
hundred persons can be accommodated
in the forty-eight rooms, with all the
comforts Of a home. Such institutions
are the browning glory Of our Christian
ity. Standing at their portals, infdelity
is speechless.
The Norwegian Lutherans in this
country now number $50 congregations.
During 1870 fourteen pastors were or
daned, and six new churches erected;
and when the Norwegian history in this
country is written, how large will ap-
pear the name of their benefactress,
Christina Nilsson? These Northern
men and women of music and song
have large-heartedness.
SEVERAL Moravian churches of New
York and Brooklyn are sustained by
contributions Of the worshippers, given
Systematically and regularly. II this
plan was adopted and carried out gen.
orally, how many feeble churches, now
crying for help, would be selt-sustain-
ing?
The Rev. Dewitt Talmage's Taber-
nacle, in Brooklyn, received, Sabbath
before last ninety souls into member
ship, the most OF them on profession of
their faith. 1t is said to have been a
most solemn and imposing scene.
ONE of the Baptist churches in Chi
cago is to have chime of seventeen
bells, covering two octaves. one Of the
largest in the United States. The
largest bell, a B fiat, weighs nearly four
thousand pounds, and the cost Of the
whole will be $1,000.