The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-04-29
OUR SUNDAY COLUMN.

The American Episcopal board is
about to send Rev. A. r. Morris, of
New Jersey. 70 establish mission in
Japan.
1t is rumored that the Archbishop of
Canterbury intends visiting America
this summer, and will be the guest of
Bishop Potter,
The Episcopal Bishop of Florida has
ordained Mr. J. Robert Love, the first
colored man ever episcopally ordained
in the south.
The Rev. S. w. Noyes, of Commerce,
Michigan, has recently Withdrawn from
the Methodists and Joined the Congre-
gationalists
The Rev. Leonidas Dobson, of the
Wilmington Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, has recently
joined the Presbyterian church.
The Rev. j. NJ. Hutchinson, formerly
of the Tenth United Presbyterian
church, Philadelphia, has received a
call to the Presbyterian church in JEFF:
fersonville, Indiana.
Rev. w. F. Watkins, for twelve years
minister of the Methodist Episcopal
church, was ordained as deacon in the
Episcopal church in Brooklyn, in Feb
ruary last.
The eighty-seventh annual conven-
ton of the Protestant Episcopal church
in the diocese of Pennsylvania will he
held in st. Andrews church, Harris
burg, commencing Tuesday, May g.
Bishop Quintard, of Tennessee, has
formally reopened the Episcopalian
university of the south, the buildings
having been put in repair, with i'm
provements. The school opens with
one hundred and sixty students.
The United States Government has
assigned to the mission board Of the
Reformed church the agency of the
Pima and Maricopa Indians and the
Colorado river agency. The former &C.
cupies a tract which has a population
of 1900 Indians, and the latter about
$500.
At the New York Methodist preach
ers' meeting, short time since, it was
agreed that there could be but little
spirituality in church where there is
taste for theatre-going and dancing,
and the opinion was expressed that the
discipline of the church should be ex-
ercised to cure the disposition for such
enjoyment.
The general assembly of the Presby-
terrain church in the United States Of
America will meet in the first Presby-
terrain church in the city Of Chicago,
Illinois, on Thursday, the 18th day of
Nav next, at IL o'clock, A. NJ, and be
opened with a sermon by the Rev. j.
Trumbull Backus, ID, moderator Of
the last general assembly.
1t is understood that Mr.. George H.
Stuart, Philadelphia, has received a
letter in which it is intimated that the
Rev. DR.. Guthrie, of Edinburg, now
editor of the Sunday Magazine, will
carry out his long cherished purpose OF
visiting the United States during the
next autumn. Few men will receive a
warmer welcome on this side of the
Atlantic than the great Scotch preacher
Rev. Messrs. Mcdonald, Of Boston
Boole, of New York, and 1nskip, Of
Baltimore, expect soon to start for a
missionary tour across the plains, taking
big tent capable of holding 1900 per
sons. They intena to hold an old
fashioned camp meeting at Salt Lake
CITY, with the expectation Of winning
back to the fold many Mormons who
were formerly Methodists, and who, it
is reported, are anxious to return to
tnelr FORMER ldltn.
The Moravians of the British Prov
inces report 5423 members, including
1896 communicates This shows a
decrease of As members, or rs commu-
nicants. The unfavorable condition Is
accounted for by the number of changes
of pastors that have taken place Is, or
more than third Of the whole num-
ber) by the failure of some pastors by
age and infrmities, by two congrega-
tons having been left unsupplied, and
bv division which has taken place in
one of the congregations on the question
Of pews.
The Episcopalian, speaking OF the
church difficulties" attracting public
attention at the present time, expressed
its views as follows: If these two rep
resentative men-Rev. Mr. Cheny, OF
Chicago, and Rev. DR.. Patterson, OF
Philadelphia-are to be in any way in
strumental, under Providence, of open
ing the eyes of the whole church to the
pressing necessity of a revision Of the
prayer-book, as really the only means
to the maintenance Of peace and union.
they may at least be congratulated
upon their valuable experience.