Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-13
PASTORS AND PULPITs.

Church upholstery is well, righteous
ness is better.
The Presbyterian General Assembly
will meet at Saratoga May 10.
1t would be well to remember that
the Lord does not banker after compll-
ments.
The Independent says many things
pass for religion that ought to pass Tor
nonsense.
Rev. Dr. Booth, Of the University
Place Church, is giving interesting al
ternoOn Lectures.
Mr.. Moody will hold revival services
in New Haven, Conn, in the course OF
a few weeks.
III a man has religion of the right sort,
men will find it out without any special
effort on his part.
DR.. Joseffy Viennesc Hebrew schol-
ar of great attainments, has become a
Christian. He is visiting London.
Ii some of the churches laid rather
more stress on morals than on millinery
they would gain in public esteem.
Princeton Theological Seminary grad
uated twenty-nine students last week.
Most of them will enter the ministry in
this country.
Henry Ward Beecher thinks we have
too much politics. and he devotes sew
eral columns OF this paper to increasing
the muChness.
The Hebreir Leader closes its TWEEN Y
eighth volume with the present week,
and finds cause for well-eXpressed con-
graduation in the fact.
Rev. w. G.. Elliott, of 81. Louis, a
somewhat noted Unitarian, is exceed
ingly troubled at the ratiOnalistic ten
denotes which are so strong in that
body.
The Methodist says the blOOdy-minded
fool on Cape Cod has a brother fool in
Mr.. Riddle, Superintendent OF Schools
in New York. That paper is addicted to
great plainness OF speech.
A sporting man said, after hearing Bob
Ingersolps lecture: 1T was spicy thing
to laugh at for an hour, but not very
cheering doctrine to have around when
there is a funeral in the house"
An Episcopal parish in Hartford,
Conn, voted that hereafter only.baptlz-
ell persons should be employed to sing
i'm the choir. There would be a thin
ming out of the choirs if this rule became
general.
At the recent meeting of the Hebrew
Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society
a resolution was offered that farm be
leased or hired for the purpose of in
structing the male inmates of the asy-
lum in agriculture.
4 free religious society started in st.
Louis, in the articles of whose Organlza-
ton the name OF God nowhere appear
ed, and i'm whose meeting it. was an
nOunced there would be no hymns nor
prayers. 1t died after holding three
meetings.
David Ordway, the eccentric Procters-
vile man, who had his funeral sermon
preached last summer, has now pro-
cured his shroud and coffin, having the
latter trimmed at his direction, and had
them taken to his house. He is 81
years old and quite unwell.
Sunday funerals have become such a
burden TO the English clergy that III
some of the towns many of them have
resolved not to Ofliciate at funeral on
Sunday except when by medical auth
ority immediate interment is declared
necessary on sanitary grounds.
The nomination of DR.. Luke h. Black
burn for Governor of Kentucky leads
the Evangelist to say it is a sign OF i'm
proving civilization when men are select
ed for Office on account OF the lives they
ha. saved, end not on account OF the
lives they have destroyed.
Rev. Theodore l.. Cuyler, in his al
dress at PRINCETON on DIR. Alexander,
said: "JamCh w. Alexander lived on
earth fifty five years-every Que OF them
busy To the Erin. To cOndense them
into ten inmates is like an attempt to
cut Westminster Abbey on cameo"
II is said that the English Wesleyan
THANKSGIVING Fund, begun last year, Is
at the rate OF $50, 900 week.
Ii now amounts To over S55O,OOO, and 1t
is expected that enough will be sub
scribed 10 make it 81 100000, which will
nut ali the dcaominational schemes Ill
excellent fin ucial condition.