Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-09-10
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Notes.
Mr.. Moody has closed his Scottish
campaign
American revivalists have had grand
success in Scotland.
The citizens of Saratoga are moving
for better observance of tn e Sabbath.
One in every fifty-siX persons in the
United States is Sabbath-school teach
er.
IT is proposed to erect statue to
Bishop Berkeley in the English Cathe-
dral of Cloyne.
The Wesleyans have 5000 COMMUNE
cants in Jamaica, and the United Pres-
byterians 1000.
The London Society of Friends have
made great success Of their mission
in BOurnana, Syria.
The Irish Unitarians, at their recent
annual meeting, spoke very faVorably
of the Salvation Army.
Rev. Theodore l.. Cuyler thinks
Saratoga is the spot 10 renew ones
strength for year of fresh toll"
The Gospel is now regularly preach
ed at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, In
Hawaiian, Chinese and English.
Riots and robberies and rows gener-
ally have been reported from many
camp-meeting grounds this season.
There is a Synod of the Presbyterian
church in Spain comprising upwards OF
twenty churches or missions,
The decline in the number of stu
dents for the ministry is disturbing the
leading men Of the various churches.
Over eight hundred millions of the
inhabitants of the globe are still under
the shadow of paganism and idolatry.
Great Britain has now 10000 Sun
day-school temperance organizations
with more than one million members.
The first colored Baptist Church in
western Pennsylvania has just been
dedicated. 1t is located in Pittsburg.
The Jesuits of Quebec are endeavor-
ing to recover possession Of land con-
fiscated during the reign of Henry w.,
of France.
II suppose it just means that he hired
'em out" was the reply of a small Sun
day school child when asked what was
meant by the expression, "And the
hlng rent MS clOtneS.
1t is related Of an Illinois farmer that
he requested a clergyman to pray that
wheat might jump to S:.l5 per bushel.
He had "wrestled and struggled and
hing Onv till NO got a sore thrnat. and
finally he decided to call in the SER
vices of his spiritual adviser.
The feeling of opposition to camp
meetings is growing in the Methodist
church, and reports from many places
indicate that the opposition will con-
tinue to grow until reform is inauSu-
rated in the manner of conducting such
meetings, or they are taboOed altogether
by the Methodist denomination.
Evangelist Harrison charges from
500 to 500 q week and board for his
services at camp-mee,ings and revivals.
His recent real estate transaction at
Loveland camp-meeting has not intend
ed to increase the desire on the part of
the camp-meeting managers to make
new engagements with him.
The so-called" Free Thinkers display
quite as much lOOsenesS and inaccuracy
as freedom in their methods of thought
and exposition. A glance at their re-
Gently suggested "Ten Commandments"
is enough to make almost any reasona-
BILE reader well satisfied that they We're
not charged with the preparation of the
original Ten" given on Mount Sinai.
A Texas paper criticises the Rev. Mr..
Price, of Clebune, for using the express
sion, "a continental red" He was
preaching about something exceedingly
valueless and took occasion to use the
expression as indicative of incalculable
worthlessneSs. The reverend gentle
man defended his choice oflanguage by
saying that he liked to make use of
such words and sentence as his hearers
best understood, and that he thought
continental red" just met the. case.
The dispute in the United Presbyter-
ian Church over organs and organ mus
ic is not only very unfortunate one,
but has broken out anew, with fresh
bitterness. The anti-Organ people, in
stead of accepting their defeat in the
General Assembly, have opened up the
question of the legality of the repeal
of the rule forbidding the use of instru-
mental music, and learned lawyers
have been called in. This puts an end
TO all present prospect OfharmOny. The
conflict will probably last as long as
the principal disputants live.
Discussing the Sunday School Lii
brary question, the Sunday School
Times says: "There are thousands of
Sunday school libraries in this country
which do not profess to be limited to
books suitable for Sunday reading.
However unwise or even sinful this
NAV seem, it is fact, and in view of it
we have urged that if The Pirates
Own Booker any book of urged that
general style out of the blood curdling
religious fictions a. good Sunday
school library bOOks-is to go into the
library, it shall be so described as not
to be mistaken for Seremy Taylor's
Holy Living and Dying"
"War! war!w is the usual head
line Of the placards of the Salvation
Army in England. The plan of attack
is then described as follows: MONDAY,
at Z :45-Salvation charge. Tuesday
Great exhibition of hallelujah lasses!
Wednesday-Fire and birthstone.
Thursday-Roll-call; soldiers to de-
liver I'D their cartridges. Friday, at
7:SO-Baptism of fire. Saturday, at
7.ErReioicing over victories won
over the shop meetings. Sunday, at
A. M. Knee drill, ammunition sup
piled to soldiers by Quartermaster-Gen-
ersl: IL A. :M.-Desent of the Holy
Ghost; 2:SOP.M,-Tremendous free-and-
easy: 6 80 p. M.-Great charge on the
devil; 9P. M.-Hsllelujah gsllop."