Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-04
GLOBELETS.

o"sn"i u OF New York contributed $20,.
ooo to the sufferers of the South.
Chicago clergyman has patented new
Lord prayer for cold rooms tits seven word.
long.
There are in England and VALE. 900 places
| in which Methodism has no preschiup.room or
chapel.
There Is village at Arcot, South India.
where every heather family has become
Christian.
The State of Iowa has rs, 7S2 Methodists and
Methodist church for every 2OOO inhabitants
in the State.
In the city of Brotherly Love two Baptist
councils are at work trying to settle long-stspd
ing difficulties.
To every 500 persons in this country there is
one minister, while in India there is not me
minister to 900 coo.
The Professionals represented in Spain by
thirty regular congregations. They have uphill
| work of it in that country
| The West and the South have had the yellow
| fever, but the East has not. The East, how
ever, has Bob Ingersoll, the able and brilliant
| infdel.
DR.. John Cumming, well-known Scotch
clergy man. is a firm believer in the second COM
ing of Christ, and believes that event is very
near at hand.
| The Presbytery of Shenango, Penn, has sus-
pended the Rev. j. Graves, d. D.. from the
ministry and the communion of the church for
drunkenness.
| Poor humanity is sorely afflicted with three
fatal diseases, viz. atheism deism and
rheumatism. In the minds of most people the
last is the worst.
| Two colored missionaries named Richardson
and Johnson. who were formerly slaves in the
| Southern States, have just left London for
work in Central Africa.
lngersou chooses very warm subjects for his
lectures. Last year it was h, this year it is
Burns, and next year he will probably tell us
something about the Skalds.
The Rev. E. B. Hulburt. late of San Francis
co, CAL, has been unanimously elected pastor
of the Fourth BAPTIST church in Chicago and
began his labors last Sunday
Evangelist Hammond, looking more portly
and cheerful than ever has finished his labors
in the West for the present. and now goes to his
home in Vernon, Conn.,, for rest.
| The fall term of Oberlin college opens with
/
theological seminary is SO full that it has been
necessary to furnish new buildings.
The Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira
adds to his large parish the work of editor
He resumes this year the editorship of two
columns of the Elmira City Gazette.
The Congregationalist quotes DR.. Duryea, of
| Brooklyn, as saying that when Christians sing,
| ''Blest Be the Tie that Binds" they should
take the tie out OF their purse-strings.
The man who slips banana peel, arises,
and dusts the rear OF his trousers without say
ing word is too good for this sinful world. Ee
can double discount church members.
Dean Stanley made a pilgrimage last week
to the little knoll Tappan where Major
Andre was hanged. Andres remains are in the
! Dean keeping, in Westminster Abbey
! The Fifth avenue New York; Presbyterian
church last year gave $29,2 6O for home mis-
sions, or $500 more than was given by all the
| Presbyterians in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
| Iowa.
The Rev. J. W. Healy, who left The pastorate
of the Hanover Street Congregational church,
Milwaukee, in 1866, returns to his old charge
| once more. He leaves hourishing church at
Ottumwa, Iowa.
Five Wesleyan missionaries have been muir
dered and eaten by the bush natives near the
Malicala coast, New Zealand. Eighty of the
tribe killed by the traders and coast ma
| tves in retaliation.
AS long as Talmadge behaved himself he
only got $1,000 q year, but since he has taken
to visiting the gambling dens and pretty wait
err girl saloons in New York, his congregation
has given him $4,000 more.
The Rev. A. Hamilton has seeded from the
Reformed Episcopal church and joined the
Methodists He only had short step to take.
He has been admitted to the Cincinnati cor
ference and been ordained an elder.
| fact which shows the wide outreach of the
operations of the Presbyterian church, is that
the number of missionaries supported by the
Home Missions equals the entire ministry of
the Southern Presby erian church.
The Hartford Cou,'ant says that in 1870 the
pastoral salary at Longmcadow, Mass, was
fixed at $22,500 year and the sexton got
$4,000 for ringing the bell. The payment,
however, made in continental shinplasters.
| The Rev. Daniel NJ. Bates, Jr. and wife sailed
from San Francisco few days ago as mission
aries of the Protestant Episcopal church to
China. They go fiom the diocese of New
York, and had their farewell services in that
city.
Prudent ministers will make no pastoral calls
in the next few weeks. The cool season is up
on US. and minister is liable at any time to
come upon man who is putting up a stove,
and surprise him in the midst of unorthodox
remarks.
hr. Lernan, the missionary of the New York
Association for Prohibiting Christianity among
the Jews, reports nineteen inquiries during
the summer, several of whom have been bap-
tized. An additional missionary has been APP
pointed.
A Sunday school pupil of tender age being
asked how he liked the gentleman who had adj
dressed the achool, replied: He funny
man. He told about the handwriting on the
wall, and said it was Minnie, Minnie, tickle
the parson.'
A noted politician was so fond of being
'deadheaded" everywhere that when some of
his friends were debating now to get him to at
tend church, of them said, ':Charge ad
mission fee, and he'll be around after pass
before breakfast"
DIR. Cuyler, of New York city, Is so we'll
pleased with the hymn-book used in his church
that he resists all attempts at the introduction
of others, and says, 1--WE will stick to our old
friend like wax to shoe-makers thumb"
That looks like holding on.
The Presbytery of Edinburgh is making
vigorous effort for the abolition of fast DAYS