Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-09-17
few hundreds. The wheat farms al
bringing them large income.

bringing them large ihcone.
Changes in worship, at least In the
forms of worship, are going on In SCOT
land, corresponding In some measure W
the artistic adornment of new churches.
a paragraph from q British paper says:
nHynns have been introduced into
Crailing free church, and on SununyI
for the first time, the congregation stoou
while singing and knelt during prayer
At the annual meeting Of the Blue
Ribbon Gospel Temperance society,
held recently in London, 1t was state9
that since the society had been organzeu
47O COO pledge cards had been sent from
the HEADQUARTERS to different parts OF
the country. 1t was predicted tnat tne
time was st hand when the drinking OF
spirituous liquors would cease IN the
United Kingdom. =,
The Free-Thinkers of Paris are painedl
at the remembrance that the remains Oh
Diderot still lie in the vaults OF tne
Church of st. Roch. They appear 70
all Thinkers in France 10 helP
them to get their favorite PHILOSOPHERS
out ofhis present unworthy sepulcnte!
IN erect a statue, over his future TOMB IN
some csntral part of Paris, and TO ceie-
brate his centenary in 1854.
A lease for 800 years nowadays Is re-
parded as equivalent to sale, out Suc9
a lease has Just expired in England, anu
The property was reverted to the original
ownerithe Church of England. 1t Is
thus legally decided that the Cnurch Oh
England has had corporate entitS
since the time of Alfred the Great, ana
that il did not, as has been supposed py
many originate in the time OF Henry
VIII.
DIR Teifchild, of London, said to a
theological student: ~ will give you
nv rules for preaching; they are very
short, and | have put them into rhyme:
"Begin low,
Go on slow;
Rise higher,
And take hre;
When most impressed
Be self possessed;
Al the end wax warm,
And sit down In q storm.
The Rev. Peter Merrill IN. E. now
preaching at Mortified, VT, is in the
iortieth year of his ministry. Com
mencjng at Sutton and Burke, then
wildwood places up the Passumpsic, IN
lS43. he received annual salaries OF from
$50 to $50 only during his first foul
wears, which, after he married, was In.
| creased to 5000. His present salary al
Mortified is $3.50, and house rent. On
this pay he managed to accumulate a
little property, enough to educate MS
| children.
The Philadelphia american, a high
toned literary paper, in commenting on
Ihe TEMPERANCE agitation which Is dis
turbing the politics of Pennsylvania, as
well as several Western States, remarks
"In this city the Charity Organization
| Society finds, as elsewhere, that great
proportion Of the want and wickednesS
of the dependent poor is caused by the
use of strong drink; but, so far rs we can
learn, no liquor dealer has been induced
to contribute penny to the funds oil
that or any other society for the relie
of the poor"
The Chicago AdydncG is saucy enough
20 say: at has been often remarked
that the free religionists, while pro-
claiming a religion of humanity, are not
conspicuous in temperance work or.mis
sion work for the destitute of the athic-
ted either in body or soul, but they
seem to be making Roadway in certain
direction and we are disposed to give
them full credit. The officials of the
two penitentiaries in Illinois have been
gathering statistics from among the con
| Yicts, and it is shown that over ~ pei
cent are free-thinkers and reject the
Bible as authority"
The Episcopal Sunday-schools, ac'
| cording to the statistics furnished by the
New York Times, shows an increase
from 8, 426 in 1872 to II, Il rs in 1882. The
Methodist for the same period, an in
crease from 1,427 to 1880. Nhe
PRESBYTERIAN from II ,O65 to l4,047. che
CONGREGATIONAL from 6,647 to 1885
The Baptist from 9,l0l to 1892. Dutch
Reformed from 3,404 to 1928. The
Lutheran shows an attendance in lSS:
of 1850 and the Universalist an i'll
crease from 565 in 1872 to S45 in 1881
| The Times says the average member
ship of pupils in the Sunday-schools o.
| New York is one in eleven Of the entire
population, while in Brooklyn it is one
| in seven.
The pastor of q large church in Avon
dale, one of the suburbs of Cincinnati
recently determined to stimulate the
| zeal of his rather lukewaIm congrega-
ton in a new way. He accordingly
placed a box at a convenient point, and
invited his people to drop into it during
the week questions upon any subject
which interested or perplexed them
promising to answer their inquiries as
best he was able at the Wednesday even
ing meeting. The night came, the ques'
tons were read, discussed, and an
swered to the manifest pleasure and in.
struction of those present. This eXer'
else was repeated on several successive
Wednesday evenings, the questions
showing singularly thoughtful and in
telligent interest in spiritual subjects
At last, to the surprise of all, the pastor
announced that the exercise would bt
discontinued. He then went on to ex'
plain that the inquiries had all beer
propounded by himself, no member o
the congregation having placed single
question in the box.