Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-12-24
CHRISTMAS SERVICES.
MANY OF THE CHURCHES WILL DISCUSS
TOPICS PERTAINING 10 THE FESTIVAL.
Excellent Music to be Rendered at Nearly all ths
Churchos-SOms of The Topics Of the Morrow.
Other Ecclesiastical Events.

ciatioc building tonight the meeting
| will be in keeping with the season. Inc
topic will be ''Good Tidings." Inc
meeting will be in charge OF the gen.
eral Secretary. After the meeting a
| Christmas social will be held. Young
men are invited to attend both the SER
vice and the social. A Christmas SER
vice will be held at 4 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon. Mr.. e. L. Hamilton, Gen
eral Secretary of the Martins Ferry
Association, will be the leader. The
music will be appropriate and pleas
ant service is anticipated.
Rev. DR.. Riker, of the Fourth Street
NJ. Z. Church, will discuss Christmas
themes on Sunday. liz the morning his
subject will be, "What the Angels
Thought OF the Birth OF Christ" At
the evening service his topic vii! be-,
"Christ's own statement of the purpose
ana effect OF his advent as the basis OF
an appeal to honest thinking people.
Rev. Charles O'Meara, rector OF Trinity
Episcopal church of Little Washington,
formerly of Martins Ferry, who has
been living seriously i'll OF compiica-
ton OF diseases for several months, was
removed to the West Penn Hospital,
Pittsburg, on Wednesday. His condl-
tion was about the same as 1t has been
| during the past week or two.
Rev. VIM. Wallace, pastor OF the U.
! p. church ct Belaire, has decided to
sever his connection not only with the
congregation OF which he has been the
pastor. but also of the denomination,
and accept the pastorate OF the Congre-
gational at Calumit, Michigan, and en-
ter upon his work with the beginning
Of the new year.
Rev. w. A. Perry, the pastor OF the
Wesley NJ. Z. Church, who has been
seriously i'll for some days, is recover
ing and will probably be able to fill his
pulpit tomorrow morning. The choir
of this church has been busily engaged
for some weeks making arrangements
for the Christmas services.
Rev. A. G. Robb, Of Kansas, will
preach at the Thomson M. Z. Church
tomorrow evening. In the morning
the usual services will be held. Rev.
Hess, the pastor, has been Ill the past
few weeks, and may not be able to &C.
cupy his pulpit Sunday morning.
Services appropriate to Christmas
will be held at the Disciples Church to-
! morrow. The subject of the morning
sermon is 1.-THE New Born Christ" and
that OF the evening 1.-The New Birth, or
Christ in You the Hope Of GlorJ." APP
propriate music will be sung.
The Sabbath school OF the Third
Presbyterian church will give their
: Christmas entertainment on Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings OF next week.
The primary and intermediate depart
ments on Tuesday evening and the main
school on Wednesday evening.
An elaborate programme OF Christmas
music will be rendered at the Second
Presbyterian Church tomorrow morn
ing. Owing to DR.. w. II. Cookies abb
seuce, Rev. c. NJ. Afford will Oil the
pulpit in the morning and the church
will be closed in the evening.
The Christmas exercises at the First
Baptist Church will occur on Monday
evening. A Christmas entertainment
called Joy Bells" consisting of music
and recitations, will be rendered. The
church has been prettily decorated with
evergreens for the occasion.
The fair in progress at st. Johns
Hall, in Benwood, given by the ladies
of st. Johns congregation, Is proving
complete success. 1t will close on next
Saturday evening, and the proceeds
will be devoted toward paying for the
| new church.
At the Zane Street NJ. E. Church to-
morrow, the pastor, Rev. j. A. Fuller
ton, will preach a special sermon at II
| o'clock. The sermon will be on the adj
vent of Christ. The evening sermon
will be the last OF the "Prodigal Son"
series.
The Sabbath school of the Wesley NJ.
Z. church is making arrangements TO
| observe the Christmas customs by hav-
ing an entertainment and treat on the
Monday evening following Christmas,
in the basement of the church.
The Christmas exercises of Thomson
| Church will take place Monday evening,
when a. cantata, Santa Claus De-
| light" will be rendered. The cantata
! Is a pretty one, and an excellent enter
tainment may be expected.
At the First Presbyterian church to-
morrow morning the pastor, Rev. d. A.
Cunningham will preach upon THE
| Unspeakable Gift and Christmas
Thoughts" Advent hymns and chants
will be sung by the choir.
Rev. DR.. Cooke and son Charles II.
Cooke left yesterday for Baltimore,
where they will spend the holidays with
relatives. Rev. Afford will occupy bis
pulpit at the Second Presbyterian church
on Sunday morning.
Christmas is the only day in the year
in which two high masses are ceie-
brated. The music is always a special
! feature OF the fve-O'clock masses, which
will be sung in all the Catholic churches
10 this city.
There will be Christmas service at
/ ST. Luke's z. Z. Church tomorrow aft
ernoon. There will also be one on Mon
day at 7:30 at the Broadway Chapel. A
| Christmas tree will figure in the exer-
ciseS.
The Sabbath school Of the Benwood
NJ. Z. Church is making arrangements
for q Christmas cantata, which will be
given in the church tonight. The affair
| promises to be an interesting one.
Last evening a. the English Lutheran
| Church Rev Z. Ii. DornolGser preached
on the Angelic Announcement 10 the
I shepherds" Preparatory service was
/ held at the close OF the service.
The lecture on 1.-THE Blues, Their
Cause and Their Cure" by Updike, the
/ evangelist, which was to occur in the
Disciples Church, has been postponed
until the first week in January.
The Swedish Grand Concert Company
| will give the holiday entertainment