Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-01
SUNDAY GLoBELETs.

ms congregation to one who is not .. profes.nr
of religion.
fever to preach from tho theatrical star.
seems to have become somewhat of an epidemic
in the West
The Free church Of Scotland has lust received
the handsome bequest of Sl35, 600 to be ex pend
ed in mission work.
An elegantly bound copy of Sankey's songs
was put up at church fair and rafied for.
Was this game of chants
Ex-Gov. John Evans, of Colorado. has built
and presented to the Methodists of Denver a
new chapel which cost him $4,000
The swedenborgans hold that the coming of
the Lord will not be literal and bodily, bat
spiritual, and that it is taking place now.
The New Orleans Picayesrae saws that Talrnage
is sowing his Wild oats in the pulpit. He
seems to be reaping pretty good harvest in
the vestry.
The Rev. Ii, S. Cantine, clergyman OF Rock-
ford, ILL.,, refuses to take any salary during the
incoming year SO as to give his church :. chance
of getting out of debt.
The foundation-stone of !, rev Corp-ega-
tional chapel has been laid at Stratfor6-op-
Avon The building will seat, when finished
5oo persons, and cost about SIC, geo
The Rev. John c. Phillips, son OF John Phil
lips, nrst mayor Of Boston and brother of
Wendell Phillips, died in Boston November
5th, IN the seventy-third year OF his age
The convention of Methodist local preachers
at Trenton recently adopted resolutions of
thanks to Prince Bismarck for has noble and
broad defense of evangelical christianity"
Beaver Lick, Kentucky, has q Talmage in the
Rev. Geo. W. Osemon who breaches vivid ser
mons on the palaces of sin in the village and
yells aloud, You are all on the broad road TO
HE'LL
The Rev d. Smith Barnes has resigned his
charge of the churches at Poynette and Louis
Vllle and accepted t unanimous call to the
First Presbyterian church at Columbus. Wis
consin.
-Four new churches have been dedicated in
the Petersburg, West Virginia, Baptist asso-
citation the past year. The buildings COST up
ward of So, 600, and three Of them are entirely
paid for.
The Rev. William P. Page, aged So years,
died recently at IongWood, Mass Mr. Page
was graduate of the class of 1865 at Harvard.
Most OF his ministry WAS spent in the State of
New York.
The rector of Little BardfieId advertises in
the Church Times for "a strong. nice-looking
lad, to attend to the church, serve at the altar
and fill up bis spare time in the stable Gre
gorlan choir"
Change cars for the Garden of Eden" .'AIl
aboard for Babylon, This train stops twenty
minutes for dinner at Nineveh' viii be fami1-
lar cries on the completion Of The Euphrates
River railroad.
An English divine declares tAat the pleasant
anasthetic effects of single glass of good
beer at a meal which the meat OF cheese forms
an important element, cannot be denied hy
those who have tasted it.
Since the meeting of the Presbyterian gener
al assembly last May, thirty eight ministers of
the church have died, including Drs. Hodse
Hotchkin, Brace, Nassau, Nickels, William
Smith, Street and Wilson.
Chicago pastors have organized a society for
further study of the original languages of the
Bible, with the Rev. Arthur Little of the Ne.
England Congregational church, as president.
1t Is to meet Monday moons, in Farweu hall
ago, when some boys were before him for
Drunkenness and rioting, that the Sunday
schools ought to teach Temperance more than
they do instead of teaching SO IN UGH about Re
hoaoam and Jehosaphat
Did you attend the church fair last night? ~
asked a minister of one of the naie members of
his congregation. Yes, sir." Il didn't see
you there, said a shlrp-eyed deacon; 81 saw
you by the outer door at olosing-up time
well, attended two Of EN- home"
In Russia there ia religious sect called
'Hoppers." Their popularity is that they
avoid stealing, lying and getting in debt 4
good many protesting Christians in this country
would do well to organize and Join such a So
ciety. Their chances for heaven would be
better.
Just for the sake OF argument let US supposc
that some miserable, heartesa wretch shoDld
rob the grave of Adam. Where Is the man
who would offer S25, 600 reward or even givca
pair Of old shoes, for the capture OF the thieves
and return Of the remains2 Echo answers
Where is the mani"
If the number of converts to the Christian
religion in China increases for the next thirty
years at the present rate there will then be
$4,000, 900 of comm unicants in that EN- pire. At
this rate of conversions in heather lands il
looks as though the millennium was not so
very far away after all.
DO you make any reduction to a minister2'r
said young lady in Richmond the other week
to a salesman. Always. Are you a ministers
wife?" 'Oh, no; am not married." said the
lady, blushing. Daughter. thsa?" NO
The tradesman looked puzzled. II am engaged
to theological student said She The redpc
ton was made.
An embryonic Bob Ingersoll in sunds,
school put poser to his teacher The lgdy
was telling her class how God punished the
Egyptians by causing the frst-born of each
household to be slain. The little bow listened
attentively. At the proper interval be mildly
inquired: What would God have done If
there had been twins?"
The Bishop of Manchester preaching Mt
church festival in Prestwick, said that man,
modern hymns, and some of them popular are
very namby -pamby and strangely silly. Thew
are full OF erroneous conceptions of all sor4s
OF thlngs-of God. of heaven. of hell, of
angels, and he knew not what else. Some
hymns are far too unctuous sensational. and
sentimental, and popular theology is, be il
certain, formed by them in two directions
one naterialistic, the other emotional .-Lors2or.
Times
During protracted meeting at Baptist
church II Livingston, ky., last Thursday, the
minister who vas to officiate at the morning
service, Carter by name, strobe up the aisle
with pair of saddle-pocEkets thrown over his
shoulder. The amazed congregation stopped
singing, and watched the Rev. Mr. Carter kneeI