Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-29
SECTARIAN NOTES.


of the Government, have agreed to tenn
poarily relinquish a quarter OF their
stipends to relieve the public finances.
The last report from the English Bible
Revision Committees is that the revision
of the New Testament will be finished
this year, or at all events next spring.
A GENTLEMAN and his wife, both
members of the First Baptist Church,
Kansas City, Mo-, are building new
edifice for it, which is to cost $4,000, at
their own expense.
TUE French Chamber OF Deputies has
cut down episcopal stipends by 1900
francs each, making 40 ,0O0i. in all, and
has voted to give 2,0O0priests l,OOOf., in
stead OF SCOT.
The one-sermOn agitation isspreading.
1t seems TO be the opinion that one good
sermon is all a minister can prepare In a
week, and certainly all that most con-
gregatiOns can practice.
The cornerstone ofSt. Johns College,
an Episcopal institution, has been laid
near Shanghai. Rev. DR.. James Paul,
of Philadelphia, has contributed SlO,-
600 to the building of this college.
The Freethinkers' Association will
hold four-iays' convention at Ghau-
taudua Lake next month. Last year
the convention was held nj Watkins
Glen, and some of the proceedings were
not particularly creditable.
EXTENSIVE arrangements are in pro-
gress in England for celebrating, next
wear. the centenary OF Sunday-Schools
by making the occasion one Tor giving
new impetus 10 the work, and seeking
10 make them more and more useful.
Conferences will be held for the purpose
OF discussing practical questions con-
nected with Sunday-schoOls. A more
complete and systematic organization OF
the whole work is contemplated.
Rev. PHILLIPS Books has received
several blocks of stone from the cathe-
dral at Boston, Lincolnshire, England,
with the request that they be placed IN
or about Trinity Church, Boston, Mass.
1t was proposed 10 send them to the
First Church, which had contributed
handsomely To the restoration of the
cathedral; but when it was learned that
the FIRST Church in Boston belongs to
Unitarians the stones were sent to
Trinity Church.
THE HJrer Lsddsr observes: You
never read, for instance, that two Ger
mans and one Methodist were arrested,
or "a Frenchman and an Episcopalian'
were taken to police headquarters. ln-
deed, people would laugh at such COM
binatiOn, and think that the reporter
was clazv or had given his pen great
deal of liberty. Yet it is quite as ridicu-
luus and invidiOus 10 denominate an
American, French, or English gentle
man as a Jew, simply because he hap
pens TO worship according to the ritual
OF Israel
THE Convocation of York has been
discussed the Athanasian Greed, but has
come To no agreement. The Bishop OF
Durham. DR.. lightiOOt, said the Use OF
the creed, which was not Il creed IN the
proper sense, should be- made optional,
and he moved To amend the rubric ac-
cor,linglv. lie regarded the damnatury
clauses as stumbling The
Bishops motion was lost. aS was also
one removing the rubric. The English
Church Union has addressed 4 paper to
both conversations, protesting against
further license i'm respect 10 the use OF
the creed.
The H,dy.7,dli SAYS: ave are very
sorry; but We have moral duties which
are more imperative than our political
duties, and We feel compelled to say
that Senator COnkling has seriously I'M
periled himself in the esteem OF the
Christian people Of the country; that he
has fatally injured himself ii it shall
come 10 he believed that Mr.. Spraguc has
good grounds for his jealousy. There
may be- pity for Mrs. Sprague; there
will be scorn for the proud Senator who
could breakup anotherman'S household.
The American public is not going To al
low its public servants to become in
different " the requirements of social
honor
The Christian at Work is very severe
i'm its condemnation of sensational
novels. Ii SAYS: These works are Of
ten a cunning and Satanic mixture OF
truth and error, of the noble and the
vile. az appeals now to our best instincts
and now 10 our lowest and widest
passions. And Just here turks their
danger. They are not devoid of some
good elements, not untrue To certain at
tractive phases and traits Of human ma
turc. But the charm ot the serpent's
coI0rs and the fascination Of his eye are
no COMPENSATION SAYS an old writer,
for the deadly poison othiS sting. The
few ideas that are worth anything IN
these works, and the adventures that
interest and excite. are found in such
morbilly sentimental. unreal, and utter
ly false relations, as not only To deprive
them Of all happy influence, but to make
them the servitors of vicious and shame
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