Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-05
PASTORS AND PULPITS.

UNITARIANs have been holding very
successful camp-meeting at Weirs, N. ii.
THERE are more than 10, 900 Italians in
London, and mission has been opened
for them.
BABoo KEsHUB CHUNDER Sen, the
preacher of the Brahmo Somaj, has
been called the Theodore Parker OF In
dia.
THERE are one hundred and sixteen
Episcopal clergymen in Massachusetts,,
of whom eighty-nine have parishes.
Mr.. GLADsroNE is expected to read a
paper on the Church in Wales at the
English Church Congress, next fall.
Iowa will shortly be divided into two
Roman Catholic bishoprics, and the new
bishop will be stationed at Council
Bluffs.
THE French Sunday-SchOol Society
has 100 schools under its charge, and
Sunday-schOols are growing in favor all
over the continent.
A MAJORITY of the standing COM
mittees of the Episcopal jiOceses have
consented to the conservation OF the
Rev. DIR. Harris as Bishop OF Michigan.
WHAT is keeping the sabbath? asks
the Church Union. Certanly:not going
to church three times on Sunday with
the thermometer at ninety in the shade.
THE King of Belgium has written a
letter To Bishop Crowther, a full-blOOded
African, congratulating him on the sue
cess attending his labOrs rs a missionary
in Africa.
A Polish peasant woman, at Mankowo,
has established new sect, and estab-
lished twelve apostles to preach absti-
nence from wine, meat, and marriage.
No objection is made to the free use OF
tea.
A NEW organization has been started
in the Church of England called "The
Evangelical Protestant Union" Its
object is to oppose extreme rltuallsm
and further the progress OF evangelical
piety.
THE necessary expenses OF the Holy
See according to Bishop Vaughn, OF Eng
land amount to 81, 100000 year, while
the income from Peters pence to meet
this outlay barely reached 100000.
\ REST and cOtice-rOOm at Smyrna,
under the direction of Maria a. West
has Scriptural texts and the word "wel-
come" written upon its walls in the
Eastern languages, and is much fire.
quented evenings.
Rev. L. NJ. HILLS, for thirteen years
priest Of the Roman Catholic Church,
has separated himself from that COM
muniOn, and united with the Episcopal
Church, in which he was brought up.
lie will be received by the Bishop OF
Southern Ohio.
Mr.. STURGEON at the annual supper
of the students of his Pastors College,
said that he intended TO arrange Tor
training fifty additional students, and
that he had confidence in Il Divine Prov
idence supplying him with the funds
necessary to do so.
THE ritualists in England intend To-
establish a society to be known as the
"Or.er OF Widows" and the Rev. q. &.
White, of Great Malvern, invites "any
widow who is free to give herself for
ChriSt's sake, to work for Ills poor and
little ones, to join the order"
AMERICAN .churchmen being about to
DuN VI bullN q NNlNNA NA'i'iNN
to use in his missionary tours along the
coast and rivers of Africa, he writes to
ask them to refrain. 1t would cost him
$500 year to keep and run her, whereas
he can hire one in MOnrovia for SlOOa
year.
at is very bad practice" eXclaims
the Methodist, "tO abandon the church
in hot weather. The ministers have
been pretty freely abused for long vaca-
tons; it is time to say that the laymen
are very much more to blame, and take
more vacation with much less excuse
than the ministers"
ARCHBISHOP PURCELL, OF Cincinnati,
announces the closing OF the ArchdlO-
cesar Seminary, Mt. st. Mary's OF the
West. The reasons given are the heavy
debt on the institution, full supply OF
priests for the missions OF the archdio-
cese, and a desire to decrease the bur
dens assumed by the Catholics OF the
diocese.