Daily globe., 1878-09-01

Over 100000 copies of the new Methodist
Hymnal have been issued in six weeks.
Fifteen hundred copies are now being supplied
daily.
In 1884 there was to be new church at Nor
ridgewock Maine, and it was voted to buy one
barrel of good W. I. rum to be used at the
raising"
A clergyman i'll Troy, owning ten unregis-
tered $500 railroad bonds, had them stolen the
other day. Moral Clergymen should not own
such property.
The Rev. DIR. Lyman Coleman is the Oldest
college professor in active service in America
He is living at Easton, Pa, and is in the 83d
year of his age.
The Blue Island Qll.) Universalists have se-
cured the services of the Rev. Miss Florence
Kollock, late of Waverly, Iowa. She will begin
her work to-day
1t is stated as fact that clergymen, instead
of being early worn out by their work live
longer than the members of any other occupa-
tion profession.
The Presbyterian church is slowly but stead
lily growing. Its gains over last year are three
Presbyteries, 106 ministers, 116 churches and
III, 1o1 communicates.
The late Hon. Simon Page, ex-mayor of Hal
lowell, Me-, who died on July 80, had been sup
erintendent of the Congregational Sunday
school in that city for fifty years.
The Baptist board of foreign missions has
accepted Miss Belle Lightfoot, of Illinois ard
Miss Emma Ambrose, of Nebraska, for work in
Burmah. They go the coming fall.
usually well-informed paper tells us that
there are no reserved seats in Heaven. So all
of us stand just as good chance to get front
seat as Jeff Davis or Jim Anderson.
candid man is Scotch minister Rev. DIR.
Gillian, who stated to his congregation that. be-
ing little the worse for wear, he would have
to preach his old sermons over again.
The organ of the English Ritualists saws
Our quarrel with the Roman Catholic is chief
ly on matters of detail, but our quarrel with
Professionalism is about first principles.
A Kingston Minister, unattached, has been
turning an honest penny in the absence of
many of the regular pastors, by preaching fu-
neral sermons. He goes in for the baked meats
The experiment of the American Bible So
ciety in issuing fve-cent edition of the New
Testament has proved a great success. In or
der to meet the demand 1000 copies have to
be printed daily.
The Rev. W. r. Jolly, of Birkenhead, having
refused to administer the communion to a
young man because he bowed to alteration be-
fore the altar the bishop of Chester has been
asked to deal with the clergyman
The British forces in Cyprus are not to be
without religious privileges. The Rev. D.
Nickerson, heretofore chaplain at Chatham,
England, has been appointed chaplain for
Cyprus, and will at once go there
DIR. Comandi four years ago established in
Florence, Italy, a Protestant Industrial Home
for 'street arabs" His plan has been success
full. The Home consists of extensive premises
and workshops, and has seventy lads under
training
An exchange a lew days ago announced: "a
report of the Rev. Mr.. BIS very able sermon
is crowded out of this issue by press of more
timely matter On another page we found a
column devoted to base ball. and half-coumn
to horse-trot,
Philadelphia philan nthropist brought u Chi
nese washerman to Sunday school and gave him
a Bible. Meeting him during the 'hot wave,"
he asked him how he liked the weather. The
reply from the new Sunday school scholar was
not very encouraging: Every dayee alice
samee; hot as hellee.
The new building of the First Baptist
church, Brooklyn, is progressing rapidly to
completion. The lecture room will be ready
FOR occupation in few weeks. The church
will be one of the largest, we'll as one of the
most beautiful in Brooklyn. The corporation
is now in tolerably easy financial circumstances,
At Orangeburg, s. c., the Reformed (Dutch)
Church has organized association of freed
women to take an interest in home and foreign
missions. Each colored sister pays an initia-
tion fee of five cents, and supplements it by
paying five cents month. These colored folks
are reported as being quite as regular in the
payment of their monthly dues as white people
usually are.
A salary of SIS, 900 and vacations of six months
each for the next two years did not offer the
Rev. E. A. Reed, of Springfield, Mass, induce
ments enough to retain him in the pastorate of
the First Congregational church there. The
call of a metropolitan pulpit outweighed all,
and he comes to the Madison Avenue On. W Re
formed Church, lately vacated by the Rev. VIM.
Lloyd, next month.
Some time ago the religious press overstocked
confding public with cheap chremos as
premiums. Then it took to dictionaries, which
were much more costly than the chromos, and
troublesome to send to the subscribers. The
rage this year is for watches, which are offered
for subscriptions at prices low as to make
people wonder whether they are real watches
or make-beleve ones, stuffed with sawdust.
prodigious business is being transacted with
these watches.
The Protestant Episcopal Church congress
will meet in Cincinnati Oct. 1918 The ses-
sions will be held in Pixies opera house. Six
topics are announced for treatment by the
essayists and speakers: 'The Interpretation of
the Bible, in Relation to the Present Condition
of Learning and Sciences" ''The Novel in It's
Influence upon Modern Life;'' "rhe New Test
ament Doctrine of Absolution;" The Sunday
Question:" Mutual Relations of Labor and
Capital"