Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-01-03
PULPIT POINTS.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN RELIGIOUS CIRCLES
ABOUT TIE CITY.
A Special Week Of Prayg-COming Lectures and
Entertainments the Churches Did
On New Years.

| a Special Woch Vi %N~'N~ 49,
Entertainments What the Churches Did
On New Years
The annual election for eight directors OF
the Y. NJ. c. A. will occur next Monday.
The Sunday School of the Wesley Nj. r..
Church was given treat on New ear 5
evening.
The Week Of Prayer opens tomorrow: IL
will be observed by the Wheeling churches
as usual.
The services at the Y. NJ. c. A. to-mor-
row will be specially appropriate TO the
New Year.
.sThe Churches Outlook for 1917 is the
morning topic by Rev. ID. A. Cunningham
tomorrow.
Rev. w. A. Harp OF Bethany College,
will occupy the pulpit at the Christian
Church tomorrow evening.
The Epworth League at the Chapline
street NJ F. Church is growing in strength
1t meets every Sunday evening
The pastor of the Zane Street Church
and his family were handsomely relnem-
bered by the parishioners with donations
on New Years.
The ladies OF st. Luke's p. f. Church,
Island, have decided 10 hold their social
which was postponed several weeks ago,
on the night OF January 18th.
A Young Mems Society has been formed
at the Church OF the Immaculate Concep-
ton. II will have a military feature mod
eled after the Knights of st. George.
At the First Presbyterian Church the
coming week the pastor, Rev. ID. a. Cum
ningham will preach brief practical SER
mons on vital and important subjects.
Rev. j. A. Fullerton, of the Thomson
NJ. E. Church, on the Island, has just had
his salary increased $500. He now gets
81 ,25O AID well-furnished parsonage.
At Annapolis, Md, on January 10th to
18th, the nineteenth annual convention OF
the Associations OF West Virginia, Mary
land Delaware and the District of Colum-
bia will he held.
Rev. A. j. Trey, Of the First Baptist
church, having been called 10 Pcnnsylva-
mia, by the death of his wife's father, the
pulpit tomorrow will be occupied by Rev.
Mr.. Dornblaser
Prof Myers will return next Wednesday
from Dayton, where lie has been i'll for
some time and will resume charge OF the
school and leadership of the choir at st.
Alphonsus Church.
Rev. w II. Cooke, of the Second Pres
byterian, has returned from Baltimore,
and will again occupy the pulpit to-mor-
row, delivering one Of his characteristic
and interesting discourses.
Rev. +. n. Lynch is collecting data for
special sermon on '''rhe relation of the
West Virginia press to the liquor traffic"
which he has in preparation, 10 be de-
livered next Sunday night.
The lecture to have been given at the
Thomson NJ. l.. church. last evening, by
Prof. Wiley. of Morgantown, has been
postponed. A washout on the railroad
prevented Mr. Willey's arrival.
At tue Third Presbyterian Church to-
morrow regular services will be conducted
by the pastor, Rev. c. NJ. Afford. In the
evening a special sermon will be preached
to Young ladies. Subject, Ruth"
The infant class at the Third Presby
terrain Sunday school was treated TO can
dies and other good things Wednesday
night The following night the other men,
bers Of the school received their treat
At the quarterly love feast Sunday
morning at the Zane Street Church, Pre-
siding Elder Jones will preach, and in the
evening the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Moore, will
occupy the pulpit for the first time in five
| weeks.
The Superintendent of the First Presby-
terrain Sunday school, Frederick II. Will
lams. is deserving of good deal OF credit
for the successful manner in which he con
ducts this unusually large and notable
gathering.
The usual Christmas treat was given the
United Sabbath school Tuesday evening.
Handsome boxes of candy were prepared,
and the children, Us well as their elders,
had fine time. The Mission band went
through brief exercises.
The Chancel Chapterof St Luke's p. L.
Church, Island, composed of twelve young
ladies, have arranged for an entertainment,
10 be given at Maennerchor hall Thursday
night, January s. The proceeds will be
applied for the benefit of the church.
The Knights of st. John of ST Alphon-
sus church have Joined Company X OF the
Knights of st. George with headquarters
at Pittsburg. and will hereafter he known
as Company X, Thirtieth Regiment, Order
Of Knights of st. George.
Miss Tillie B. ellis, of the Island, was
the recent recipient of handsome hand
kerchief case CONTAINING some fine initial
| handkerchiefs The articles were pre-
sented TO her by the choir of tho St Paul
German Lutheran church, OF which she is
organist.
The pupils of the Sunday school of the
Third Presbyterian church held an enter
tainment at the church New Years night.
The teachers and Mrs. Rev. Afford were
each given handsome presents by the class
es, and the scholars were remembered also
by the teachers
The recent tragic death OF young Lewis
at the B. Il o. depot almost personally
grieved Rev. Mr.. Fullerton, Of the Island,
from the fact that the deceased was
former member of mis- Sunday school class,
at Morgantown. la his sermon tomorrow
evening Mr. Fullerton will allude TO the
accident.
At the Chspline Street NJ. +. church to-
morrow morning the pastor, Rev. +. y.
Lynch, will deliver Il sermon on The I'm
seen Hand That Leads u.s. In the even
ing he will take for his theme The
Greatest of all Questions" selecting for
his text. What must ] do TO inherit
eternal life"
The New Years night meeting at the
Chapline Street NJ. T.. church was the best
of the series of revival meetings in pro
gress there. Thirty conversions and
twenty-nne accessions is the record since
the services began. There have been one
hundred and forty-two accessions IN the
past fifteen months.
| Revival services VIII commence next
Sunday ut the Wesley NJ. l.. Church. The
pastor, Rev. Ash, will be assisted by Rev.
Hammond, of Moundsvilie, member Of
the West Virginia Conference. Rev. Smith.
of the Green circuit, Marshall county, will
preach tomorrow morning and Rev. Ash
Will deliver the evening sermon.
The oldest living male Methodist in
Wheeling is Mr. David Charnocs, OF 1ll2
McColloch street. He is - years old, and
has been member of the church in good
standing for 65 years. He is certainly a
remarkable religious character II , re
calls the three buildings that have at diff
ferent times occupied the site Of the Fourth
Street Methodist Church, and has seen the
six Methodist societies now in the city
grow out of this original society. Mr..
| Charnaoli Is "a member Of the Zane Street
Methodist Church. and was recently pre-
scented by the parlsbloners with handsome
easy chair
Some people have wondered how 1t was
that the scriptural quotation from ST.
Luke, "Glory TO God in the highest" etc,
was so yariously rendered by tho differ ent