Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-15
PASTORS AND PULPITS.

REV. C.. W. Wendte, the popular Uni
tartan preacher OF Cincinnati, has gone
10 Europe for the summer.
REV. Howard CROSBY says the devil
will never take hints. ii doesn't seem
To take the hints which DIR. Crosby
gives.
TUE Methodist Missionary Society has
expended SS,OOO,OOO in its work in this
country, and Si,OOO,OOO on foreign
fields.
MR. RANDOLPH, the well-known pub
Usher. has issued an admirable life OF
Professor Albert Hopkins, OF Williams
College.
THE sum Of S9042, 2l3 has been con-
tributed TO the suStentatiOn fund OF the
disestablished Irish Episcopal Church
since 1879
An undenominatiOnal Protestant
church is 10 be built i'm Marquette COun-
ty, Michigan, and the old Republic iron
mine has contributed 81 600 to aid in its
erection.
The Reformed Episcopal Church at
Montreal has withdrawn from that body
i'm the United States, and united with
the English Reformed Church, OF which
DR.. Greg2is Primate.
Ara general conference Of the African
Methodist churches of New England,
recently held at New Bedford, reports
showed a church membership of 1917.
The denomination has twelve Sunday
Schools, containing NJ scholars.
REV. RUFUs ELLIS, of Boston, says:
There is still such "A reality as intellec-
tual honesty, even in our easy-geing
DAYS. 10 does matter what man be-
GeyeS. though some of Us have been for
ward and foolish enough To say il did
not"
4 PREsBYrERIAN minister in Colorado
has within year organized two
churches, built one house OF worship
and a parsonage, bought achurch organ,
established two Sunday-SchOOls, taught
three catcchism classes, and supplied six
preaching stations.
THERE is Il class Of one hundred and
forty blind persons connected with the
Regent Square Presbyterian Church OF
London. \ staff of about forty ladies
visits them weekly in their homes, and
medical advice is provided ior them, H.
we'll as pccuniary assistance.
WESLEYAN McthodiS,S in England cX-
rcpt the coming annual returns will in
dictate a loss OF about 5000 members
The Primitive McthOdiStS also look Tor a
loss, while that branch OF the church
known aS the Methodist New Connec-
tioniSts look for an excess over last
year.
4 SOCIETY for the promotion OF Scrip
tural institution among the Irish-Speak-
inc population of ireland had an income
nual meeting. Lord Plunkctt, Bishop OF
Meath, said there were still 100000 per
sons i'm the country who spoke lrlSh,and
los, 900 could not speak English.
Tvs Pope has directed the Roman
Catholic Primatc of Ireland to express
to the Irish Catholic bishops his appro-
val of the Irish University bill intro
ducrd by The O'Conor Don, and his
hearty desire for its success. This eX-
preston of opinion from Rome has not
tended to diminish the intense OPPOSE
ton against this measure manifested
throughout Great Britain.
The Miko,iiS thinks people should be
on their guard against putting too I'M
plicit faith i'm cirumStantial evidence,
which is often very misleading. The
safety of society sometimes justities the
detention and Imprisonment OF persons
who NAV be innocent. But hanging
people who may be innocent is so horrl-
ole a thing that any other possible eX-
planation oi the accusing circumstances
should De preferred before the theory OF
guilt.