Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-12-13

OF the poor are.
81 only know one safe way out oil
these temptations, and that is to follow
every good impulse when it comes.
know man-an Englishman-who used
to keep one OF those ale houses in Eng
land where workmen swill beer and ale
until they are unfit for work and are
| filled with disease, and this man was
saved in that way; by acting on good
impulse when il came. The first good
impulse was to give up his ale-house,
and at once he closed the doors and
threw up his license. Some one asked
him why he didn't sell it. "Sell'it,
man. he replied. "Do We think I'll
get out of bad business only TO put an
other man in?" But he put away sew
eral barrels of beer into his cellar for
family use. He heard a temperance
lecture, and there came the second i'm
pulse-to throw away the beer. He
went home, took Ratchet and began
knocking in the key heads. "What are
We doin', man." cried his wife; "wastin'
the good stuff? What'll We bring up
the children on? Are We crazy" 'No,
bring up the children on porrridge and
not this, and slap-bang went the other
barrels. That man to-day is sixty-two;
his children are industrious and pros
porous, and one of them is clergyman.
Always act upon good impulse.
Here is Sermon Enough for One Sunday.
New Orleans Democrat.
A little shOeblack called at the resi-
dence of clergyman OF this city and So
licited piece OF bread and some water.
The servant was directed to give the
child bread from the crumb-basket, and
as the little fellow was walking slowly
away and shifting the gift between his
fingers for piece large enough TO chew,
the minister called him back and asked
him if he had ever learned to pray. On
receiving a negative answer, he directed
him TO say "Our Father" but he could
not understand the familiarity.
as it our father-your father-my
father"
"Why, certainly"
The boy looked at him awhile and COM
menced crying, at the same time holding
up his crust OF bread, and eXclaiming
between his sobs:
"You say that your father is my faith
er; aren't you ashamed TO give your
little brother such stuff TO eat when YOU
have got so many good things for your
sell?"
Miscellaneous.
\ paragraph is in circulation which
purports to give statistical evidence
that the Roman Catholic is the largest
religious body in New England. But
the defect in such statements is the fail
ure TO recognize the fact that in Roman
Catholic families all are equally mem
beers of the church, while in most
Protestant bodies only voluntary pro-
fesSors OF religion are counted. 1t is
common TO estimate that each COM
municant represents five adherents, per-
sons as really identified with their re-
spective denominations as an equal pro-
portion OF those recognized as Roman
Catholics. A comparison OF the Roman
list population with Protestant cOmmu-
nicants is misleading, and no con-
illusions drawn from it can be trusted
Hdtchmdn.
THE bishop OF Liege lately prohibited
the religious celebration of the marriage
of a Catholic teacher in a public school
because he had consented to teach the
catechism. The teacher appealed to the
Pope, and his holiness invited the
bishop to have the marriage celebrated.
1t seems the Belgian bishops and clergy,
in their excitement, have gone beyond
the canon law-which regards marriage
both as a contract and a sacrament. As
a sacrament it has to be received ain a
state Of grace" but the priest cannot
refuse TO perform the ceremony in the
light OF a contract, whether the parties
be in a state of grace or not.
TIE missionary concert used to be
considered the dryest and dullest Of all
meetings. 1t was because missionary
intelligence was scarce, or was not given
in a form for ready use, or the pastor or
deacon did not get used 10 it as he might.
At the present day there is no excuse.
Missionary fields are everywhere teem-
ing with the richest OF fruits, and maga-
zines and papers come freighted with
facts, incidents and results of the most
animated and stirring nature.-BOstoa
TrdreIler
THE recent Thanksgiving proclama-
ton OF the chief of the Cherokee nation
is remarkable, not only as literary
production, in which character it is not
excelled by those of the white govern
ors, but also for its devout spirit and
full appreciation of the blessings OF civil
ization and religion.
LARGE numbers of the Sunday schools
in London at their afternoon sessions
(which are said to be fast gaining in size
over the morning sessiOns) use the In
ternltional Lessons, and these lessons
are now in demand all round the world,
mainly through missionaries.
Miss MARY TRAVIS, a lady who at
tanned the advanced age OF one hundred
wears few weeks ago, has recently been
baptized bv the Vicar of COttingham.
This event is said to be without paral-
lei in the history of the Church of Eng
land.
We cannot live on probabilities. The
faith in which we can live bravely and
die in peace must be a certainty, so far
as il Processes to be faith at all, or it is
nothing.-FroUde
THERE are now 1000 Sabbath schools
in France, 1000 in Germany, and 200
in italy