Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-09-17
General Notes.

General Notes.
In Russian Poland the Baptist Church
has about 2,C0O members.
A project is on foot for uniting in one
body the various Methodist sects IN Can
ada.
A freight car is used as church by
the people of Maple River Junction.
Dakota.
Great Britain has now 10000 Sunday
school temperance organizations, WIN
more than one million members.
Rev. T. Salmon, an English clergy
man, has Just had to pay S25 for kissing
a girl, but he considered it cheap.
Fifty out of the seventy-three stu
dents in Jaffra College, Ceylon, nave
renounced paganism for Christianity.
There was for the year 1882 loss in
the 10 Conferences of the Methodist
Episcopal Church Of 2,647, while the
decrease in prObations was 1875.
The next annual meeting lthe sew,
enty-third) of the American Board VIII
be held in Portland, Maine, beginning
October 3. DR.. Z. 2. Goodwin Will
preach the sermon.
a religious paper makes the state
ment that one in every five persons In
the United Stats Is member OF some
evangelical church, and one III every
fifty-six is q Sabbath-schoOl teacher.
The English church has established
q Christian mission at GAIA, a town
which reaches further back than the
call of Abraham. 1t was on the way
TO GAIA that Philip baptized the eunuch
of Ethiopia.
The Methodist Episcopal ministers of
Kentucky have pledged themselves to
work for the defeat of any candidate
for public office who attempts to gain
nomination or election by the use OF
money or liquor.
A moment has recently been inaugu-
rated in the Protestant Episcopal
Church in Massachusetts, to secure the
doing away with the pew system in all
their church edifices in the State, and
the introduction of the free system in
stead.
The following is from one of Evan
gelist Barnes sermonsat Dayton, Ohio:
Right straight from the swine's trough
to the best robe suits the Lord the best,
fleas and all, stencil and rags and all,
poverty and all, and withal ignorance
to cap the climax"
The Presbyterian church of Canada
is endeavOring to follow the immigrants
who are pouring into Manitoba. The
Presbytery is striving to establish a
building fund of SlOO,OOO to oulid
churches in the territory, and already
$4,000 are subscribed.
1t is sometimes said that the degree
of ID. ID. amounts to little or nothing,
but i'm the case of the pastor of the First,
Baptist church of Detroit this rule does
not hold good. AS soon as il was known
that the degree had been conferred on
him the congregation added 500 to his
salary.
A large council will be held at Quin-
cy, ILL.,, September 70, to advise respect
ing the installation of Mr.. +. y. Thayer
over the Congregational church in that
place. More than fifty churches have
been called, besides dozen clergymen
without charges. Nine States will be
represented.
The committee of nine appointed 70
consider the question of distinctlVely
Baptist Bible have decided to call con-
ventiop, to meet in Cincinnati in No
yember, in which the whole denomi-
nation in this country shall be repre-
sented, and the question be thoroughly
considered.
A Baptist church oftwenty-five men,
bers was formed at ChogO, Japan, in
A pril last. On the same day five more
were added by baptism, and the follow
ing day a school teacher, whose wife
was baptized last summer, was received,
increasing the total membership to
thirty-One.
Probably the wealthiest sexton in the
world is the one who every Sunday
ushers to their seats the congregation
of st. James Chapel, Elberon, \. j..
He lives near by in $4,000 cottage,
has bank account of several millions,
and is known TO the world as q. w.
Childs, proprietor of the Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
The trouble that has been brewing for
some time among the Dunkards has
grown ripe at last, and suits have been
commenced at Chambersburg, Pa. The
Young people of the community who
want to dress as other people do, have
musical instruments and the like, claim
to be the real church, and ask the court
to put them in possession of its prop
erty.
In the State of Michigan there are
only thirteen installed Congregational
pastors out of 2O6 in the active ministry.
The new statistics show decrease Of
100 in the total membership, and an in
crease of sixty-five in the additions by
confessions, which numbered sos. OF
the 255 churches lS4 report not q soli-
tary addition by confessions during the
year.
The committee ofthe Methodist Epis-
copal Church has reported to the Gen.
eral Conference, now in session at Ham,
ilton, Ont, approving the efforts now
being made to merge the Methodist
Churches into one united Methodist
Church for British America, and re-
commencing that a committee be APP
pointed to confer with committees from
other Methodist bodies to negotiate q
union If possible.
A few days ago Captain Gypsy Smith,
leader of the Salvation Army Corps in
Hanley, England, accepted agold watch
and testimonials rs a token of respect
ON his leaving the district. For receiv-
ing this the captain has been discharged
from the army by General Booth, and
two lieutenants, who also received
watches, will only be reinstated on CIV
ing them up to the army. The circum-
stance has caused much comment.
The number of Certified chapels" in
Great Britain at which, non-conformists
are allowed TO hold religious services
has increased within thirty years from
1862 to q 1866, or nearly Fifty per cent.
IL is claimed that the number OF attend
ants at non-conformists services Is
nearly as large as that Of the worshipers
in the established church, although the
accommodations for the former are only
a third of those provided BY the church
The Mennonite communities in Kan
sas are prospering. About $4,000 OF
these Russians own nearly oOO, 900 acres.
This property was purchased equally
from the railroad companies and from
Tho industry and