Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-25

plause, worldly influence and dominion,
tempting men to follow il with feigned
or divided homage-whicht fill the heart
with doubts and jealousies and fears,
and dispel the holy peace, where genius
in its brightest moods, and virtue in its
noblest aims, find their fittest abode.
Thoroughly in earnest with its work,
filled with some great conception, or in
tent on tracing out the laws and con-
sequences of some vast principle, the
mind enjoys serene and absorbing
ouietude which the ordinary sources OF
of human restlessness and anxiety,
while that intense application OF thought
endures, seem impotent to disturb.
J. Tayler.
Talmage on Church Music.
First, the music of the church ought
to be helpful. A woman recently dying
in England was singing, and they tried
to persuade her to stop lest she should
be injured by the exertion. Then she
said, 81 am practicing for the heavenly
choir" Music in the church on ealth
/ is rehearsal for music in heaven. If we
are going to take part in such an orches-
ira we ought TO be getting our harps
ready. But am not speaking OF the
next world. The Sabbath song ought to
/ set the whole week 10 music. What We
want in our American churches is not
/ more harmony, not more artistic express
/ sion, but more volume OF sound.
\ The English, Scotch and Irish
| dissenting churches are as immensely
ahead of the American churches in this
respect. An audience OF 1000 people in
England will make more volume OF
sound than an audience OF 1000 IN
America. You ought TO hear the peo-
/ pie sing in Surrey Chapel:
d" The blessing thrills through all the labOring
throng,
And heaven is won by violence OF song"
am not a worshipper Of noise, but /
do say that If all the people sung with
/ hearty Outgushing OF soul the music OF
our American churches would have ten
/ fold power. Is it questionable to sing
/ loudly? Then away with the fashion.
I We dam back the great Mississippi Of
I devotion, and let few drops of melody
| trickle through the dam. | say take
away the dam, and let the pillows roar
on their way to the great oceanic heart
of God.
Under the heading, Quickly and
Literally Answered Prayer" an English
religious paper prints the following start
ling item:
A missionary at a station IN South
Africa was seated in the mission church
when a heavy storm came on. A friend
was preaching and another interpreting
near him. The fears of the missionary
were excited that his friends bald head
might attract the lightning. He was so
valuable as a preacher that the mission
airy breathed short prayer that it might
not he so. The preacher had Just an
nounCed "Suffer the little children to
come unto me-" &c, when, amid the
deafening noise OF thunder and falling
rain, a terrific crash broke over the
chapel and the missionary was felled TO
the ground, butnOt killed. \ little child
was asleep in its mothers arms close by;
the lightning shock ran from its head to
its feet, and after one gasp its spirit
scared away TO heaven.
But he failed, and who can forgive
that? Have YOU never failed? II is said
more than ninetyin hundred Of the
merchants of Boston have failed. Is it
the rarity of OF minister's failure that
makes so many bankrupts in business.
Are insolvents with unsettled accounts
Judges so severe? Have not some OF
your relations failed, and have you
been hard on them? How many, not
failing financially, have failed OF their
word, and, because they hid their
property, held up their heads in the
market and the exchange? This man
conCeals nothing and gives up all.-Rer.
Dr.. BdrtOL IN defense Of Murray.
THE son of Baptist minister was
about to be joined in wedlock to a Bap-
tistlady. The officiating clergyman
not the father of the groom-said before
the ceremony, "Let us pray. OGod, We
thank Thee for the ordinance of baD-
tism, and that for this cause man shall
leave father and mother and be joined 10
his wife, etc. On retiring from the fes-
tivities, the father of the groom, apollo
giving for the mistake of baptism for
marriage, said, I'VE Baptists have so
much to say about baptism, we bring 1t
in everywhere"
BISHOP MACKARNEss, of the Synod OF
Argyle, does not.approve of the cOunte-
nance which the Anglican Church has
given to the mission of Pere Hyacnthe.
lie thinks il an unwarrantable inter
ference with the Catholic Church of
France. The French clergy are improv-
ing, and there is no more intdelity In
Paris than in Geneva.
The Rev. John p. Lacroix, D. d.
Professor of Modern Languages in Ohio
Wesleyan University, died recently of
paralysis of the brain. He was native
OF Ohio, AZ years old. He entered the
Ohio. Methodist Conference in 1883, but
spent most of his life as an educator.
He translated several works from the
German and French.
THE institutions of the American Mis-
sionary Association among the freed
men all opened this fall at the regular
time except that i'm Memphis, on ac-
count of the yellow fever, and Straight
University, at New Orleans. The Storrs
School, at Atlanta, Ga, opened with
go scholars.
A LITTLE Chambersburger was called |
upon in Sabbath School to say text |
from the Scriptures. When the time
came she had forgotten her verse, but !
from her general knowledge of Holy |
Writ she solemnly quoted, Little |
children should be seen but not heard"
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for a
grand National campmeeting of Metho-
dists at Old Orchard Beach, New Hamp- |
shire, in July next. 1t is the design to /
make it gathering of Methodists from |
all quarters OF the Union.
TWELVE French Canadian Catholics
have embraced Professionalism, and been |
received into the Baptist Church of |
Waterville, Ne. The services on the |
occasion OF the baptism OF the converts |
were conducted in the French language. |
TIE First Baptist Church OF Texas |
was organized in 1886. Now there are
in the State 10000 Baptist, OF whom
10000 are whites and $4,000 negroes. |
The Baptists have nine schools OF the /
higher class under Their control.
tbs French government will not allow |
Methodist ministers to preach to the |
soldiers.
Business Opportunities for Women"
Cincinnati Commercial.
Mrs Rebecca Hazard OF St Louis, sent I
a paper on Business Opportunities for
Women 10 the wOmanS congress in /
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