Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-07-26
AMONG CHURCHES.
WHAT WHEELING PASTORS AND PEOPLE ARE
DOING.
Glance Into the Sanctuaries Around the City
Many Ministers Taking Their VacstiOns-Ths
List Of Picnies and SOeiablss Coming
Religions Events Of Importance.

Bishop Peterkn, of the Episcopa
Church, has appointed several new rectors
for this diocese.
The Church Of the Immaculate Concep
ton now presents one of the handsomes
interiors in the city
Rev. A. j. Trey, pastor of the First Bap
fist Church, is spending few weeks IN
West Chester, Penn.
The members of the St. James German
Evangelical Church are agitating the mat
ter of steeple on their sanctuary.
Rev. C. y. Afford, OF the First Presby.
terian, will return next Thursday, from an
enjoyable vacation spent at New Castle.
Rev. d. A. Cunningham, Of the First
Presbyterian Church, is enjoying a we'll
earned season Of rest ut Lake Chautauqua.
Several of the Wheeling German pastors
will take prominent part in the Lutheran
Synodical meeting in Columbus in Septem-
Der
Rev. Paul Ziegelmeyer, of the German
Zion Evan. Church, who has been sick for
some time, was out yesterday for the first
time.
On the 10Th of August the Epworth
League Of the Xane-street Methodist
church, will give sociable on an elaborate
scale.
The Sunday schools of the North Street
and Wesley Churches combined last Thurs
day in picnic at the Moundsvillc camp
ground.
Rev. c. Treuschel. pastor of the German
Methodist Church, is spending his vaca-
ton at Lakeside. He will be at home in
one week.
/ Rev. 5. H. Keller. an able and entertain
| ing preacher of the East Ohio Conference,
will occupy the pulpit of the FOuIth-street
| Methodist church, tomorrow.
There viii be quarterly conference at
the Simpson (colOred) Methodist church
next Friday. The Presiding Elder, the
Rev. Robert Steele OF Charleston, will be
present
Rev. C. b. Graham, of the Zane Street
Church, attended the recent commencement
at Alliance College in Ohio. Mr.. Graham
will be absent all next week at Mountain
Lake Park.
This coming fall the District Methodist
lcoloredJ Conference will be held at the |
Simpson Church. All the colored pastors |,
in the district to the number of sixteen will |
be present.
late in the services at the First English |
Lutheran Church by series of meetings /
specially arranged for creating an interest |
in religious work.
Rev. George w Grimes, of the Thomp- |
son M. E. Church ON the Island. is now |
enjoying the last of his three weeks rest at |
Ellenboro Dr. Blaisdell preached at this
church last Sunday.
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campmeeting at Moundsville, in August. |
will be more largely attended than last year.
The cottages are rapidly filling up prepare
tory to the services.
DIR. c. w. Gushing. of the Fourth street |
Methodist Church is now at Mountain Lake |
Park. Mr. Gushing is an ardent advocate |
OF temperance, and is prominent mt all /
meetings for this purpose.
During the summer months several pas
tors have placed their Sunday evening /
prayer service in the hands Of the young |
people of the Christian EndeavOr Society |
and often with the best results
Although there has been falling off in |
the Saturday night meetings at the Y. NJ. !
G.. \. Building. the Sunday evening ses-
si0ns still continue 10 attract the usual
large and interesting assemblage.
Rev Mr.. Lynch, the temperance candi-
date for Congress for this district is one of
the best informed clergymen in this section
on the reform movement. He has gathered |
great array of statistical facts.
Notwithstanding the hot weather very |
few of the members OF the st. Alphonsus
German Church have gone out of town,
and the attendance at all the services for
the past few weeks has been large.
Bishop Kahn, of this diocese, was in Lon
don when last heard from. He expects TO
visit portions of Scotland and ireland dur
ing the next month. He is expected TO be
in Wheeling on the 9th of September
Rev. W. G. Riheldaffer, OF the North
Street Methodist Church, is spending
few days at Moundsville, where his child
rem are having Il joyous camp-0ut This
church will remain open through the sum
mer.
Many of the members of the United
PRESBYTERIAN Church are now out of town,
and but one service is held on Sunday.
The venerable and much beloved pastor,
Rev. Mr. Mcclure, seems TO be rapidly
gaining in health.
An event in Episcopal circles which is
being looked forward TO with considerable
interest is the ten days mission at St.
Luke's Episcopal Church in November 1t
is expected that noted preacher from
New York will ofliciate.
There is practice which has been start
ed in a few of the Sunday schools of hay
ing the scholars in the higher classes write
short compositions on the characters and
ideas in the current lessons. This would
seem to be a very commendable practice.
Rev Jacob Birmingham, of St. Luke's
Episcopal Church, on the Island, and DR..
Shearer. who were called away two weeks |
u. a. s h. laff -
have returned to the city. There will be |
services, as usual, at ST. Lukc's tomorrow |
St. Matthews Episcopal Church will be |
closed during the month of August for re- |
pairs. The rector. Rev. X. X. SwOpe, will |
recreate at Ho wards Lick. Mr.. Swope has |
been holding services every other Sunday
at Elm Grove. where "a very prosperous |
mission has been established.
The Sunday School connected with St |
Johns German Independent Church will
have a fair and festival at Wheeling Park
I'm November There are 800 scholars in
the Sunday School and 300 members in the
church. The pastor Rev. w. Ulfert, may
Justly feel proud of his flock.
Rev. Father Mullen, of the Church of
the Immaculate Conception, will be absent
in Southwest Virginia after tomorrow.
for two weeks. The services at the church
during his absence will be conducted by
Rev Father O'Kane, formerly of Wheel
ing. now assistant to Father Connolly, at
Clarksburg.
The ladies' Society of Cleaners. connect
ed with the North Street Methodist church,
is in a very prosperous condition. Mrs. W.
G.. Riheldaifer is the president. On the
18th OF August this society will have the
pleasure of participating in the twenty
fifth marriage anniversary OF MIR. and Mrs,
Riheldaffer, at the parsonage.
The clergyman against whose appearance
on the programme cf the Church Congress
Bishop Potter has entered protest, Is the