Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-27
CHURCH NEWS.
Doings Of Preachers and People
Throughout Christendom.
A Carefully Selected Column Of Relig ious
Intelligence from all Quarters OF
Globe-General and Per-
sonal Mention.
NOTES TAKING A WIDE RANGE.
RELIGIOUS soUlss.


The character of any religion de-
ponds upon its idea Of God.
= The way 10 forget our miseries Is to
remember our mercies.
Stagnant piety, like. stagnant water,
cannot he In a healthy state.
It is better to make penitents by gen.
tleness than bypocrits by severity.
A writer i'm Bidck1rood says that
Carlyle twas a Calvinst without signifi.
cance."
1t is time to cease calling Revivalists
Harrison the hoy preacher" He Is 50
years old.
The Rev. Mr.. Greene, Of Raleigh, \.
c., recently immersed lao persons in
seventy minutes.
The colored Baptist Of the South con-
tribute on an average three cents all
nually for foreign missions.
The greatest comfort in old age Is the
memory Of well.spent life, albeit
some prefer bank account.
Christ Church, Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, has new chime OF nine
bells, weighing 10000 pounds.
The American Board Of Foreign
Missions wants 100000 this month, In
order to close its fiscal year satisfac-
torily.
At the close of Moody's meetings in
Glasgow a conference ofone thousand
reformed drunkaftls was held. Some
rich experiences were told.
The value of church property in the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese Of Penn
sylvania is 81, PSI, 900 and the aggregate
indebtedness is Sl9S, 1927.
An appeal is made to every Catholic
in the world to contribute five cents
toward erecting q monument to the
memory of the late Pope Plus IN.
There is steady falling off in candl.
dates for the ministry In the Presbyter-
ian Church, both North and South.
The decline is from nine to eleven per
cent.
The Ritualistic Churches in London
and vicinity are steadily increasing.
Some 81 churches out of 9OS now Use
eucharistic vestments, against fourteen
in 1869.
Misfortune should strengthen en-
dcavor instead of sapping it. 1t is the
quality of the great heart, like the
palm tree, to strive most upward when
it is most buriencd.
There was for the year 1881 an actual
loss in the 10 conferences of the
Methodist episcopal Church of 2,647
members, Will the decrease in proba-
TONERS was 1876.
1t is no less vain to wish death than
~ 10 ooua rJlx- tp fnar IN saVS thp aHnUa
But, according to common rumor,
those who go down to the sea In
ships" for the first time do both with
out scruple.
Resembling preachers who 20 on
pounding the pulpit in the fashion Oft
numbering locomotive have one merit
in common with that engine-if they
don't cover much ground they general
ly disturb the slcepers.
"The one indispensable preparation
for public prayer is private prayer"
An English Dissenter uttered this pithy
sentence, and we ask the brethren who
represent large congregations in suppl
cations before God to consider 1t well.--
Presbyterian.
That man is bad preacher in the
pulpit who is not good preacher cut Of
il; and no man IN the world hasa right
to stand up for God, if God has not
adorned him with personal holiness.
We should preach by what we are, rs
as well as by what we say.
The "Salvation Army" is about car
rying the war into the gorgeous East.
A..detachment of soldiers, all of whom,
by the way, are officers, has been select.
cd to 90 To India, and Is already en-
dcavoring TO fit itself for its duties by
wearing oriental costume, the turban
included.
A London paper says: "1n the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland there are about 10000 places OF
religious worship, while ii appears to be
q we'll ascertained fact that for every
600 persons attending the house OF
God, 5000 are 10 found on Sunday In
the public house"
The North american Rcricp says:
"During the century Just passed the
population Of the United States has
increased eleven fold, and churches
have increased thirty-seven, fold and
while hundred years ago there was
one church to every loo inhabitants,
there il one for every $50"
Religion-talking people with turn
for POPULARITY will ply their wit some
times on dreadfully solemn themes.
No wonder the steamship passenger
was astonished the other day when a
broOding, sadfaced being asked him the
difference between temptation" and
eternity" and when he gave II up
said, zone IL a vile of the devil and
The other is devil Of n while"
Religion IL as necessary 70 reason rs
reason is to religion; the one cannot ex.
1T without the other. a reasoning be-
ing would lose his reason In attempting
To account for the phenomena ofnature,
had he not Supreme Being 10 refer |
to. II there had been no God, mankind
would have been obliged to imagine |
Washington.
There are many visionary Christians
who are wise above what IL written,
who lose themselves i'm the clouds by
stretching their faculties beyond their |
appointed limits, who build splendid
castles in the air." or lay their founda-
tons I'm the sands instead OF resting
them on the Rock OF Ages.-Hanndh.
Endeavor to be always patient Of the
faults and imperfections Of others; for
thou hast many faults and imperfec-
tons OF thy own that require a recipro-
cation Of forbearance. II thou art no.
able to make thyseIf that which thou
wishest to be, how canst thou expect to
mold another in conformity to thy will?
The Baptist Weekly says: ut should
make Oh ristians blush Ia know that the
bees In this country do much more 10
making honey than the churches OF all
denominations In raising money for
missions. The value the honey crop ex-
ceeds $1,000, 900 annually, while con
tributions for foreign missions amount
TO less than s2,5O0, 600"
In answer to a cali for pieces Of silver
and gold, Of which to make . com
munion service for the Church Of the
Holy Communion in st. Louis, twelve
and a half pounds Of silver and an
ounce Of gold was given. from which
paten, fagon, two chalices and large
slms-hasin were made