Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-12-30
Notes About Churches and
Church People.

| beers IN the United States.
SmAFTsBURG, Mich, is to have new
Methodist Church, costing 1000.
Rev. DR. RIDGAwAY lecturcd il
Piqua, Ohio, on last Thursday even
ing.
The church property of New York
City, il is estimated, is worth $1,000,
600.
DURING the last year the women of tn,
Northwest have contributed 81, 600 iOl
mission work.
The number of members in the Con
gregational churches Of the United
States is reported mt 363,O0O.
A LARGE Roman Catholic Monastery
and school has been founded in tn,
heart Of the Scotch Highlands.
Mr. GEORGE MULLER, Of Bristol, En-.
| gland, proposes to revisit this country
for Christian work next year.
THERE arc now in Syroa 800 girls at
tending Evangelical churches, and
studying the Westminster Catcchism.
Is an old church-yar not lar from
the Tower Of London was recently
found Roman tomb Of tho fourth cen
tury.
A CHINESE Sunday school has been
organized in st. Louis, IN connection
with the American Sunday scho"I
Union.
A LARGELY attended annual reception
was given Professor Swing and family
| at the Palmer House in Chicago last
| week.
The whole Bible has been translated
| into the Turkish language, which trans
lation gives it to l50,0O0,0O0 people.
The Rev. j. Mills Kendrick will OIL
ciate at the Chapel of the Redeemer
Elm street, near Findlay, Tomorrow
evening
REV. DR. STORRs has completed his
thirty second year as pastor oi III,
Church Of the Pilgrims III Brooklyn
| New York.
REV. FATHER MCGUIRE, OF Braid
wood, Ill.,, shot sexton Muldowney, al
Sunday night, installing him for II bur
glar
AFTER the "Wcek Of Prayer" in Jan
uary next, it is expected that the
revivals in all of our churches will com
mencc.
Mr. X. NJ. IIrGmEs will teach tho y
| VI. G.. A. class in photography tins eV
ening, commencing alta quarter before
eight o'clock.
TIE ladies' Of the Presbyterian Church
at College Hill gave very delightful en
| tertainmcnt and supper ON last Thurs
day evening.
NEARLY $50 900 OF the Methodist For
cign Mission debt was paid OIL last year
but the Society still owed Sl5S,D0 Oh
October list.
OVER one thousand families in Brook
| lvn, n. Y, have left the Methodist
| Church on account of the "changcable
ness and uncertainty 0i the pastorale. :
Tue only Free-will Baptist Church
| i'm Chicago has disbanded, and its late
pastor. the Rev n +. h,vin, viii at
tempt an independent unscclaran con
| grcgation.
IL il were not for the interest and de
yotiou ni the women oi our churches
our-hali Of the churches would pass
out Of existence in less than year
| time.
REV. w. w. RAMSAY, of Union 'hufch
nj Coyingtnn, will have Tor his subject
| tomorrow evening: HAS Moses WIS
taken the Significance or ordered 'i''
Creative days
Nus. SARAH II. IEdGErr has under
| taken ON "A small scale what Mr.. liiitoh
abandoned on Il large one, the cslab
Ishmcnt of Workingwomans Home
in New York City.
THERE is Il great awakening ut RAJ
Rirrr Mass. under the ninistratlon'
nf Mrssrs. Peutccost AMI StrhhInS
Meetings are dcnsely crowded, an" near
crs are powerfully moved.
TINS statistics OF Mcthoii for 1919
| .Lnw that the number of Methodist
rnmmuuicauts in the world Is l,ls9,s.
with lOI I75 local and travelling preach
crs The Methodist population is esti
mated at 20,O0,OOo.
TuE City Of Baltimore ls astir VIII
rcyivals and preparations lnr i'''','
The Rev. Harrison, Van Cot, ROACH
Talbot and Moody are all there actively
engaged in the good work, ami nearly al
holding their meetings III Me'hodis'
| Churches.
Tux Congregational and Presbyterian
Churches of FRANKLIN, \. J., AFTER
separatiou vi nearly forty years have
reunited. and by an order oi the Su
nrpme Court have been consolidate
INTO one body, to he known as the
Fir.t congregational Church and 30
cicty.
Ttr First Baptist Church Of Clcve
land Ohio, has called Ia It's passionate th'
! highest Calvinist it can tind-the Rev
| y : Moxom, of Mount Morris, New
Work Who stands six feet three inche'
hiyh He is u recent graduate OF Koch
/ ester Theological Seminary, Ne" i"rk
s,x.ycars ago there was but one Chris
tian church in Japan. Now they mum
Der thirty-six Then every christ'ai
rirort Was frowned upon by the COY
eminent, To-day one hundred young
men ar, studying for the ministry IN ia,
schools Of the American Board. \eriiy
the skcptic's occupation Is gone
TuE preachers in attendance ut the
Weekly PRESBYTERIAN meeting III hi
cago, admit falling oil IN chnrch AZ
tendance. They trace the cause u
skcptical literature and hard times, ana
recommend as remedy greater activity
in missionary work and the preaching
OF more practical Christianity anu ies'
doctrine.
Ir il estimated that the annual out
Law i'm New York City for supporting ~
churches, chapels and missions, ihs'. n'
ing the salaries Of the pastors ana 'nS
running expenses Of all kinds, vii
amount to S5,OO000O. For carrying oi