Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-03-25
LENTEN SERVICES.
HOLY WEEK TO BE GENERALLY OBSERVED
IN THE CHURCHES
Some Of the Special Topics for TO-MOrrOw's Dis
Entertainments Given During the
Week, and Others in Contemplation.

/ teresting nature. Tomorrow afternoon
I at Vespers, RI Rev. Bishop Kahn will
preach the final sermon of his Lenten
series. The services during the week
will be OF the most solemn character.
At mass on Holy Thursday, the cere-
mony of blessing the oils will take place
and every Catholic priest in the diocese,
who is not unavoidably detained at
| home, will be present. At the evening
services on Thursday and also on Good
| Friday, special sermons appropriate to
the days will be preached by some OF
the visiting clergy. At ST. Alphonsus
| church, and the church of the Immacu-
late Conception, services will also be
held on Thursday and Friday.
During Holy Week there will be
daily service at ST. Matthew's Church,
beginning FIVE minutes after twelve
o'clock, noon, and lasting ten minutes,
] for the benefit of business men and
others who may not be able to attend
church at any other time. There will
also be evening prayer and sermon on
] Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
| Thursday at 1870 o'clock. On Friday
there will be morning service at 1920
o'clock, and on Saturday at four o'clock.
At this service infant baptism will be
administered.
Special religious meetings Of great in
tereSts have been held this week in the
! Pleasant Valley Presbyterian Church,
five miles west of Bridgeport, by the
Rev. DR.. Alexander, OF st. Clairsville.
| The communion will be held tomorrow
at p. m, at which large number of
new members will be received on pro-
fession of faith.
The organ concert 10 be given by the
choir of ST. AlphonSuS Church Sunday
evening, April 9th, will be rare treat
| to lovers OF good music. Prof.
| Frauenheim, a prominent organist OF
Pittsburg, Mrs. Flora Williams, VIM. b.
Day, aud others, and the Opera House
/ Orchestra, of this city, will appear on
/ the programme.
The entertainment and social which
closed last night at the Baptist Mission,
! Virginia street, Island, was a dattering
success, and the ladies having the az
| fair in charge should be congratulated
] uUOu Aut SulIGNo " ulNl NAOHnNu LAbAA
commendable efforts 10 raise money for
the church.
Last Tuesday was the feast of st.
Joseph, the patron saint of Rev. Father
Mullen, pastor Of the Church Of the
Immaculate Conception. The pupils OF
the parochial school presented Father
Mullen with handsome casSock and
entertained him with programme of
song and recitation.
Tomorrow is Palm Sunday, a day
upon which the Catholic church cele-
brates the triumphal entrance Of Christ
into Jerusalem. The ceremony OF bless
ing and distributing the palms will take
place at mass tomorrow morning in all
of the Catholic churches 10 the city.
The Butler Band of the Zane Street
church celebrated its fourth annver-
Sary on Monday night, and members OF
| several other church organizations were
present by invitation. An excellent lit
erary and musical programme was rem
dered.
The last payment of the debt upon
the Benwood NJ Z. church parsonage
was made this week. The congregation
has purchased property centrally To-
Gated in Benwood, and will erect hand
some edifce this summer.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Wesley
] VI. +. Church will give social for the
benefit Of the church this evening. The
ladies should be encouraged for their
earnesJneSs and LABOR for the good Of
the church.
RI. Rev Bishop Peterkin arrived in
the city yesterday from Parkersburg.
He will occupy the pulpit tomorrow
morning at st. Matthew's church, and
will preach at Elm Grove in the after
noon.
The twelve members of the Y. NJ. C.
A. who gave an exhibition at Washing
ton, Pa, Thursday night, arrived home
yesterday. They speak in flattering
terms OF their treatment in Washing
ton.
At the Zane Street church on Thurs
day evening, large audience was high
ly pleased with a Stereoptican exhibition
given by Prof. Adams, under the au-
spices of the Kings Sons.
The Knights Of ST. George Of the Ca
thedral will occupy the large rooms in
the second story Of the Hess building
on Market street, after April 1st.
The new pastor for the Disciples
church has not vet been selected, but
the pulpit will be filed to-day by the
State Evangelist.
Rev. Jacob Birmingham, OF st. Luke's
Episcopal Church, will address the
young mems meeting at 4 p. m. Sunday
at the y. NJ. c. A.
The first floor of the new Florence
Birmingham memorial residence, now
in course Of erection on the Island, will
be specially adapted to church socials
and entertainments.
Rev. Jacob Birmingham, pastor Of st.
Luke'S, is slightly indisposed, but will
probably occupy his pulpit as usual to-
morrow morning.
Rev H. II. Bartholomew will conduct
Lutheran services at Elm Grove to-
morrow, and confirmation will be ad-
ministered TO a class OF twelve.
A lyceum was organized last night at
Waymau A. NJ. Z. Chapel, which is ex-
pected to be a source Of mental improve
ment in the congregation.
Baptism will be administered to sew
eral members of the Baptist congrega-
ton at the services tomorrow evening.
a young Japanese student gave an in
teresting talk at the Thomson NJ. Z.
| church last Thursday evening.
A new congregation OF the Church of
| God has been organized below Bellaire,
and a chapel will be erected.