Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01
JOTs AND TITLES.

| The Emperor of Germany and the Crown
/ rrfnce have promised to attend the Luther
| celebration which is to be held at Elsie
| ben on the 10th of November next. The
| fourth centenary of the birth Of Luther is
| 10 be held at the place Of the reformer's
| birth, with services of rare soemnity.
| Among the other exercises will he the I'm.
| yelling of statue of Luther. The Emperor
himself has promised to unyeil it.
The Russian government has forbidden
NJ. Pashkotf TO continue his services. Pash
koff is a gentleman who was converted
under Lord liadstOCk, an Englishman who
has spent much time in preaching among
drstocratic circles in Russia. These evan
geIists and their adherents held Bible elias
and prayer meetings in st. Petersburg, and
gained many converts. They have met with
much ridicule in the st. Petersburg papers.
Last Sunday in Talmage's Tabernacle
two of the trustees had a bit of an Nm
pleasantness while ushering the people to
seats. No blows were struck, but one of
the brethren caught the other by the arm
and held him uneasy" for about thirty
seconds. Reporters OF some Of the seRss.
tional papers got wind of the matter and
gave it an importance which did not be.
long to it, and conveying the idea that
there was trouble in the church.
a New Jersey youngsters mother told
him that if he prayed earnestly to God for
anything that he really wanted he would
be very likely 70 have his prayer answered.
That night the child knelt down beside his
mother and besought the Lord to send him
right away fifty little sisters and a hundred
little brothers. This prayer was too much
for the other. Before the child could
say amen to it she bundled him up and
thrust him into bed. As yet il has not
been answered.
Not to be behind the great religious pub
fishing concerns OF this country and Eng
land the Mohammedans of Turkey have
established Board OF Publication in
Constantinople. One of the first acts of
handy edition OF the Koran. Heretofore
the Koran has not been accessible TO the
common people OF Mohammedan faith.
The volumes now in existence are cum
brous and costly. The next publications
will be the controversial and historical
| works OF several famous Mohammedans.
An energetic Christian lady. Miss Jennie
Smith, has been quietly doing q great
evangelical work among the employees of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Compa-
| ny. She was born in Ohio about thirty
years ago, of wealthy parents, who after
wards were overtsken by poverty. For Q
lid. On being restored to health in 1873
she continued with great vigor the mis-.
sion work which she had began while lying
| on mattress and wheeled from place TO
place. Her lsbors have resulted in much
| good among the railroad men.
Donation parties to ministers are often q
gTleyous nuisance. costing the victim OF
the supposed liberality and beoevolence
| much more than they yield him. The
| property given by the friends Of the Rev.
| Mr.: Ayers, Of East New Market, in Mary
land, will long be remembered by that
| gentleman as in striking contrast with ordi-
| nary donation visits. These good people
came Unexpectedly on Saturday night and
carried into Parson Ayers hopse q
huge pie, whose contents were more
| curious and various than those OF the
traditional pie which contained four and
twenty singing blaekbirds. The bottom
crust Of this pie was large sack Of corn.
It's filing consisted Of hams, sausage,
sugar, cake. coffee, crackers, butter, honey,
dried apples, eggs, jellys hominy, potatoes
chocolate, hosiery. hsndkerchiefs and
| many other things needed for household
supplies. At the topof the upper crxs
was purse containing o substantial Sun
| of golden coin. Thus Is Brother Aver,
made happy fox months 10 como,