Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-22
PASTORS AND PULPITs.

DIR. Hugh Miller has bequeathed $780,
900 to the Scottish Free Church Mission
airy Society.
Mrs. Charles Brook, who died recent
" gave to the Church Of England dur
ing her life not less than 100000.
A Baptist council in Minnesota has
declined to ordain a minister who de-
MES the right of woman to speak in
meeting.
DR.. Knox is recovering his health on
the prescription of one sermon Sun
day. That one, we'll studied, is deliv-
cred extempore, and with increased
effectiveness.
Mr.. X. A. Burnell said, in his address
at Boston, that he would rather live in
the worst quarter in any city of China
than in some places he could name In
the city OF Milwaukee.
Rev. DR.. Prime timely says that Chris
tan philosophy looks after the moral
and the physical conditions of humans
ty, seeks to improve both, and knows
that both are in the line OF reasonable
endeavor.
Placing two Latin crosses on the roof
of the First Congregational Church at
Fair Haven, Conn.,, and painting the
same upon the inside walls, have caused
so much controversy that they have
been removed.
The Evangelical Alliance of the United
States Withhold its coming biennial SEES
sion in st. Louis, opening October %,
1879. Its St. Louis branch thinks the
disuse of the catechism is a serious loss
to Sunday-schools.
The Bishop of Salisbury, in reply to
complaint of advocacy OF auricular con-
fession in the parish OF BOtherhampton,
says confession and absolution are good
and proper, and confession should not
be made in the presence OF third par
ty.
Alta religious conference in London it
was stated that the wages paid to wo-
men engaged in producing tenpenny
Bibles were not enough to keep body
and soul together, and that OF three re-
cent strikes in the bOOk-binding trade all
had arisen out of Bible work.
Unity Church Robert Collyer's),
Chicago, closed its fiscal year April l,
with good showing: Receipts, Sl7 800;
expenditures, $l7,l00; funded debt,
$4,000. The receipts are $1,000 more
than in the previous year. 1t leases
its lecture-room to Hebrew society for
$500.
Rev. Edward NJ. Deems has resigned
his charge at LOngmount, Col, to &C
cept the chaplaincy OF the Woodruff
Scientific Expedition around the world.
He is the guest of his father, DR., Deems,
of the Church of the Strangers Church
until the sailing of the expedition.
Rev. Chauncey Giles, of Philadelphia,
president of the General Convention OF
the New Jerusalem Church in America,
and formerly pastor of the New Jeru-
salem Society in East Thirty-fifth street,
will occupy his old pulpit tomorrow
morning, exchanging with the present
pastor, Rev. G. 5. Seward.
1t is said that most of the subsidy
given by the city of Paris to the Re-
formed churches within its limits will be
withdrawn, and that the churches in
the future will have to depend upon
their own resources. In all, the city
has been giving them about 100000
francs, of which 10000 went toward the
support OF Protestant schools.
They are not all "livings" in England
there are also some starvings, as wit
messed in the fact that in the domain of
the Bishop of Touro there is parish
having thirty-four parishioners, but no
Episcopal residence nor church, and
whose net income is just Sl75 per an
mum. And some self-denying priest is
wanted TO take the place.