Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-06-03
PASTORS AND PULPITS.

The Boston anniversaries this year
have been decided success.
Love is a cement, without which it is
impossible for Christians to unite and
stick together.
The Presbyterian Board OF Foreign
Missions closes its financial year with a
debt of 62,53S, an increase for the year
of Sl5,23S.
Rev. WILLIAM NJ. TAYLOR, ID. D.,
thinks cOhee-rOOms are decidedly pre-
ierable TO bar-rOOOms, and earnestly
seconds their erection.
Rev. JOHN HALL, ID. d., will give a
course of lectures at Yale next year on
ministerial piety, of which there seems
to be an abundant lack.
A SECOND Advent paper in Boston
says that it was the Perfection" doc
trine which led the Pocasset Second Ad
ycntists into fanaticism.
The Catholic Mirror denies the report
that the eldest son OF the United States
Senator Herman, OF New York, is 10 be-
come a Jesuit priest.
THE Burmese spent last year more
money on their Sway Dagong, or Golden
Pagoda, than all the Raptists in America
gave to foreign missions.
REV. J. NJ. Atwood has been chosen
president of the Universalist Theological
School at Canton. He is an able man,
and represents the best life Of that de-
nomination.
REV. THEODORE CUYLER says God
loves to reveal smiling face TO those
who draw nigh unto Him. Perhape
one reason so few people see tits because
so few get near enough.
THERE are one hundred and thirty-one
Protestant places OF worship in Phila-
dclphia and nineteen Catholic, and yet
the latter, by recent actual count, have
50 653 wOrshipers, while the former have
only II, 40 wOrshipers.
THE discussion of the woman Ques-
ton, in her adaptation to the work Of
the ministry, is bringing out generally
unanimous opinion that she may be
eminently efficient and useful as a Cos
pei worker, without being formally
licensed to preach or aspiring after ordi-
nation.
The startling statement that devil
worship has been revived among the
colored people who had been LETT 10
their own preachers, and that when
discovered a child was about 10 be sac
rifced, was made last week by DIR.
Brown at the Episcopal Delegate Mis-
sionary Conference at Cleveland,
Ohio.
REV. DR.. RYLAND T. BILLIARD, a dis
tinguished Baptist minister in Ken
lucky for upward OF fifty years, baptized
some four thousand persons in the
course of his ministry. Rev. Thomas
p. Dudley, a Primitive Baptist minister,
who assisted at DR.. billiards. ordination,
is now in his eighty-seventh year, and
still active in revival work.
THERE are now 2,4OO organizations OF
the Young Mems Christian Association
i'm the world, and OF these 900 are in
America. The American group own 90
buildings and property worth S2,5OOO,-
600. Their annual expenses exceed
100000, and in more than 100 cities
each association has a salaried secretary,
whose sole duty is with the assOcia-
ton.
REV. JAMES BRAND, Of Ohio, wants a
new Congregational creed. He says:
The mission of the Congregational
churches is not primarily to propagate
their politv, but their doctrines" The
mission Of true Christian churches
primarily is to develop and difTuse right
eousnesS i'm the world and love and good
works among men.
TINS is the way that pledges to pay a
church Indebtedness are redeemed. The
South Congregational Church in Brook
lvn. after carrying for sixteen years a
mortgage OF $4,000, had a meeting
wear AGO, presided over by one OF their
own number, Mr. John +. Henry, chair
man of the trustees, and there pledged
the whole amount. 1t has all been paid
within the year, and the mortgage can
ccled.
4 rRosY, tedious Congressman said to
Henry Clay: "Hou speak, sir, for the
present generations; but | speak for
posterity." Eyes" replied Clay, "and
1t seems YOU are resolved to speak until
your audience arrive" And it is just
so with some preachers. Instead Of
COMPRISING what they have to say into
thirty minutes, they spin it out until all
are hartily glad when the amen is reach
cd.
Ok the first day OF next October Ed
ward Everett Hale will have been the
pastor OF the South Congregational So
cietv in Boston quarter OF century.
In mentioning the fact, the Boston
Courier thinks that "time has dealt very
gently with him during this interval.
He is the youngest man for his years
whom YOU meet on the street, and he is
as fresh as ne is young. His activity is
only limited by his strength; and he has
lived for the last twenty-five years such
Il life that, more than most persons in
his profession, ne may be said to put
his own spirit into the lives OF other
men,