Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-05-10
AMONG THE CHURCHES.
What is Going on in Religious Circles
throughout the City.

The meetings of the Thomson Metho-
dist Church through the week have oeeh
well attended. The attendants at TINS
church. as well as many outsiders, are
looking forward with pleasure 10 the
entertainment.to be given by Harry Blng-
ham, the boy orator, next THURSDAY ana
Friday evenings. His representations
are wonderful.
The wife of Rev. j. G.. CAN'T, rector
of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, on the
Island, is confined to the house with
sickness. Her many friends hope for
speedy recovery.
One of the exigencies of etiquette was
brought ont in a peculiar manner dur
ing the reporters call at a certain par
sonage last Thursday afternoon. n
little chubby tot of a girl answered the
call at the door, and on being asked ii
her father was at home, she went up
stairs and rumaged around the different
rooms for while, and finally stalked
into the parlor and remarked TO the re-
porter I'm all seriousness, Papa says he
amt in now" The reporter escaped.
The estimable wife OF Rev. 5. Earn
est Jones. presiding elder of the Meth
odist church, has been very sick for
some weeks with typhoid fever, which
IL is believed now has relapSed into
pneumonia. although her condition for
the past few days has been slightly i'm
proved. Mrs. Jones is lady very
prominent in charitable and improve
ment associations, and is a power for
good in the community.
Children's Day will be observed in all
the Methodist Churches in the city, and
whole country as well, on the second
Sunday in June, and the little ones have
bright anticipations.
The attendance at the United PreSby-
terrain Church for the past few weeks
has been rather on the increase, and the
pastor. Rev. j. 7. Mcclure, IS doing
much to keep up an active interest in
religious matters.
The teachers and officers of the Zane
Street Methodist Sunday School gave a
bounteous supper and very pleasant en-
tertainment to the scholars in the vestry
Thursday evening. The enterprising
ladies Of this society know how to ar
range "bang up time.
The work OF frescoing the Church OF
Immaculate Conception in Lower Wheel
ing is completed and the staging was
removed yesterday. The interior is now
one of the handsOmest in the city.
Rev. d. A. Cunningham. pastor Of the
First Presbyterian Church, spent Thurs
day in Pittsburg.
The Kings daughters Of the Fourth
Street Methodist Church, assisted by the
choir, will give a social and reception
some time this week.
Tomorrow evening the Young Peo-
pies Epworth League connected with the
Fourth Street Methodist Church will
celebrate its first anniversary. The
pastor, Rev. r. +. Randolph, will
preach an anniversary sermon which
will be of especial interest to the young
people. This growing league has a ma
tional membership of l25, 600.
The collections received on Children's
Day are all sent to the Educational
Board I'm New York TO swell the fund
which is sacredly set aside To educate
children in INDECENT circumstances.
The pulpit at Chapline Street NJ. T..
Church will be filled by Rev. DIR. Blais-
dell at 1890 Il. m. and by Rev. w. +.
Anderson. of New York City, at 1880 p.
m. The pastor will attend Quarterly
Meeting at Salem, Marshall county, in
the place of Rev. $. +. Jones, p, f..
whose wife is still very sick.