Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-15
ELM GROVE RAHROAD
PASTORS AND PULPITS.

celebrate in May its fourth centenary.
Thus far, four hundred thousand
copies Of the new Methodist Hymnal
have been sold.
The Christian at Work has not vet
learned that DIR. Taimage, its former edi-
tor, is on trial.
Sunday morning breakfasts are given
10 600 or 200 people in Philadelphia
every week, accompanied by religious
exercises.
The Friends in the vicinity of Mount
Gilead, Ohio, are holding successful
revival meetings, assisted by colOred
choir
The annual address before the Wes-
levan College for Women at Cincinnati
will be delivered this year by Rev. DR..
W. Y Hinde, of Detroit.
The Methodist churches in the Bos-
ton district OF the New England Con-
ference carry an aggregate debt OF $780,
900, calling for 81, 900 Of interest money
annually.
The Johns Hopkins University, at
Baltimore, has established summer
laboratory on Chesapeake Bay, under the
charge Of W. h. Brooks, for the study OF
zoology.
The religious test is frequently made
use OF in political campaigns in Scotland,
and it is almost impossible for CathO-
lie or Unitarian TO get elected TO Parlia-
ment.
There are several religious papers in
this country conducted by the colored
people. The cOlOred Babtists have five,
the MethOdists three, and the Presby-
terians one.
sydney Dobell said: II know Of no
difference Of rule for living here and
living hereafter; and | look upon life,
therefore. as a glorious, happy, an IN
estimable thing.
Dr. William VI. Taylor says: 1T is TO
be feared that our modern pulpit has
largely failed TO emphasize ii not 10
realize the significance OF the resurrec-
ton Ui Christ's material body
The peculiarities of the canOns OF st.
Paurs, London, in the matter OF ser
mons, are said % De-: Canon Gregory
can read his sermons, but can't write
them; Canon LightfOOt can write his
sermons, but can't read them; Canon
Liddun can 10 both, and Bishop the
army chaplain) can do neither.
The Missionary Herald states that the
largest donation 10 the American Board
last wear was from a missionary still IN
active service, who for years has paId
his own salary, and the largest Legacy
now due il lOt course not including the
OTIS legacy was left by one who was
for wears a missionary tO the North
American Indians.
The ErangellS calls DIR. Fulton "a
thorn i'm the flesh" and adds that
Once i'm awhile. though rarely, We lind
such a bull of Bashan roaming about IN
the green pastures OF PresbyterlanlsIn'
who lifts up his horn on high, and u a
terror % his bretheren. such one
Mas the late Robert Breckinridgc, OF
Kentucky, who at last, after a life ol
conflict. rests in peace, and the church
that mourns his loss rests in peace
also"
The FregnHR's yD,HnIi recommends a
wine As suitable for the altar, and in
dorsas the wine-dealer in these words.
"A large part Of his pure altar wines are
furnished from the large Sonoma VINE
wards of a very wealthy gentleman-a
convert To the Catholic Church, AMI
who would rather lose a hundred thou
sand dollars than have a bottle OF cor
rupt or mixed wine 90 from his cellars,
or vineyards, to be used on Catholic
altar
Rev. DR.. Loyic Pierce, Of the South.
ern Methodist Church, has Just entered
upon his ninety-tiith year. lie ccleDra-
tel his anniversary at the home ot MS
snn. Bishop Pierce, who - himself an
old man. at Sparta Ga Twenty-seven
,,randchildren and one great-grandchlld
attended the anniversary, and the OLD
man. as has long been his cOstom, wrote
a greeting % his church.
Rev. Dr. Henry NJ. Field thinks
there is something too arbitrary ana
iorred in the Episcopal and Roman
/ Catholic outmapping Of the weeks and
nsrsbaling Of the DAYS There Il no
warrant i'm the New Testament for such
a rast.iron arrangement. and many oi
I the lasts and feasts are Ut very late
oriyin. The tendency to Journalism
must be resisted. A cut-and-irled re-
I Ijgion. everything ordered on the resu-
| Lfion platform. is apt TO be as hieless a.
/ it is pretty and picturesque.
The N,tkodia thinks lit is a great
/ misfortune that our Presbyterian breth-
ran cali such a body As is now trying
Dr Talmage "A court al Jesus Christ
I To many persons the use oil thIs term
snpears irreyerent, IL not blasphemous,
- any circumstances, but the dis
Er,lsr and the clugis furnished by the
I Tabsrnacle. and the personalities M
/ 5TI,,si i'm bv the counsel render the
Ms, ~ such A title a. a court OF Jesus
I christ the most offensive blasPhemous
nrartice that We have noticed IN ne
iigious body