Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-23
PASTORS AND PULPITs.

THE Episoopalians have Just opened
a church in Spain. .... ....
Rev. PHILLIPs Books, of Boston, has
edited a volume of selections from the
writings OF Dean Stanley.
PRoF. SWING, of Chicago, mourns the
death OF his wife who was highly-edu-
Gated and gifted woman.
MR. Fray, Of Bristol, England, has
collected over 200 editions OF the Eng
lish Bible printed before 100.
GEO. MACDONALD has been preaching
a good deal of late, and in pnlpits OF al
most every denomination.
The English Wesleyans had $50 cir
cults and S57 ministers in 1856.
They have now 704 circuits and 1878
ministers.
MANY OF the preachers have summer
substitutes, and it sometimes seems that
the preaching is very poor substitute
for religion.
A Seventh-Day Baptist at Newport,
IL. l., has been sued twice for keeping
his market open ON Sunday, and an
announces that he intends to keep 1t
open.
FoRrY-FoUR agents were employed
last year in the service OF the Board oil
French Evangelization in Canada. The
income for the year amounted to S2+,-
loo 30.
A CHURCH for the use Of English wor-
shippers has Just been opened at the
well-known watering place OF Marlen-
bad, IN Bohemia, by the Bishop OF Bath
and Wells.
KANSAS has now $50 churches, go OF
which are Baptist, 80 CongregatiOnalist,
So Lutheran, 22 Episcopal, l52 Metho-
dist, % Presbyterian, and 10 United
Presbyterian.
Nix. j. J. RICHARDS, OF Falmouth,
England, has refused to pay the church
rate, because he receives no beneht
from the rector, and has gone to prison
for fifteen days in consequence.
The Methodist churches in the Bos-
ton district of the New England Con-
ference carry an aggregate Indebtedness
OF 100000, calling forS24, 900 ofinterest
annually. No light tax on the Chris
tian energy and resources OF the
church.
A POOR man called at an uptown par
sonage the other day, and asked for the
pastor of the church. ale is out OF
town, sir" said the servant. 81 want
To see Jesus Christ" said the sufferer.
"And He's out Of town, too" was the
reply.
The Baptist churches in Japan have
formed an association for mutual help
and Christian work, and have recently
held their first annual meeting. The
asSociational lunch, consisting OF fish
and rice, was spread on the floor OF the
misSiOn-house and eaten with chop
sticks.
Or the SIS, 7S6 members Ofthe Church
of Scotland, large majority, or 29I,3'o,
are women. AS women have equal
voting power with men, the balance oil
power i'm the church lies with the wo-
men, who could easily OutyOte their
fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons.
But then they don't.
TIIE .MihUIi4 thinks that only three
Methodist churches are closed, AMI that
the variations at all Methodist pastors IN
New York and BROOKLYN will not average
three weeks each; and, with the three
exceptions, good preaching is provided
every Sunday in more than one hundred
Methodist pulpits.
TIE FrgaiHg Post is taken To task for
"a gross exaggeratiOn vi facts IN regard
10 the closing OF churches in this city.
The letter says: "The empty seats are
caused partly by the absence in the
country of their usual occupants; but
not more than twenty per cent. OF the
emptiness is so caused; the rest must be
put down to the account ot empty
hearts.
MIS- Thomas, of Philadelphia, lady
more than - years old, has built neat
stone church in Name, Pa, at a cost OF
SO 900. and presented it To the Presby-
terrain congregation there. The old lady
each year, says the Titusvllle (Pa)
HfTdld. spends part oi her large income
i'm building church somewhere IN the
country.
TIIE Westminster Presbyterian
Church, of HOnkers, y. Y, having out
grown their present place ot woSship,
have commenced the erection of a new
church ediiice on WarburtOn avenue,
nearly opposite the present one. Its
length WILDE los feet, with an audience
room - bv % feet in size, accommodate
ing about 900 persons. The building
will be Of brick, with stone trimmings,
and tower 100 feet high, The pews
are 10 be on bowled floor, slOping from
the three sides 20 the pulpit. The estl-
mated cost is about 100000.