Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-17
SUNDAY GLoBELETS.

The next anniversary of the American Mis-
sionary society viii be held next fall.
The Rev. DIR. Mackenzie, sub-dean of Lincoln
| cathedral and suffrage bishop of Nottingham.
| Is dead.
One minute is the rate at which the Amer
| lean Bible society can print bibles with it's new
| fast press.
The church bells of Boston rang on election
day to announce to the voters of that city the
hour of opening the polls.
The snake-skin shoes that the Paris
women are wearing realize the bruising of
| woman heel by the serpent.
Of the 353iclergymen educated at Cuddles-
den College, England, 263 have adhered to the
Ritualistic party and eleven have become Cath
olics.
A monument to the Rev. William Smith. D.
D., celebrated Presbyterian divine, was dedi-
Gated at Miller's Run, Pennsylvania, on We'd
| nesday.
clergyman was telling story of rather in
credible dimensions while his little girl made
the inquiry: Father, is that really true. or ia
| it only preaching?''
| The Rev. DR.. Maltby has filed the pastorate
OF the Broadway Congregational church at
Taunton, Massachusetts, for forty-fye years
He is now 80 and in poor health
The beautiful little Episcopal church at
BRISTOL Pa, has new rector, the Rev. Joseph
W. Lee, formerly of Brooklyn, who will enter
on his new duties in couple of weeks.
The convention of Methodist local preachers
at Trenton, N. j., recently adopted resolutions
of thanks to Prince Bismarck s.for his noble
and broad defense of evangelical Christianity"
| The Rev. Philip Grace of St. Mary's Roman
Catholic church, Newport has been made by
| the Pope doctor of the Catholic church the
| first dignity of the kind conferred by Leo
XIII.
In the Baptist church at franklin Pa, there
Is no debt, and the pastor and sexton are paid
every Monday morning. If member of the
church does not give he is visited and disci-
plined.
The Rev. I. d. Anderson, D. D., of the First
Baptist church of New York proposes. it is
| stated shortly to relinquish the passionate of
that society, which he has occupied for the
last seventeen years.
Major Whittle, who formerly labored in
evangelistic work with the Iamented P. P Bliss.
and other religious services, greatly to the edi-
hcation of the people.
The Rev. Mr. Beale, Methodist clergyman
of Wallingford Connecticut, did not confine
himself to the Platonic metho of doing bust
ness with some of his lady parishioners, and
hence there is trouble in the camp.
The National Baptist wants fresh obituaries
| or none. 1t says: ''We cannot insert marriages
and deaths of old date" Its obituary of Sam.
son Occum, who entered into rest in July,
1892 is an exception to the general rule.
Virginia paper receives large number of
religious exchanges, and says that perhaps they
contain some religious news, but where in
the - heaven they put it is quite beyond
poor devils who edit mere secular journals to
discover"
Charges of drunkenness and card-playing
against the Rev. William Parry, of the Taber
nacle church. at Worcester, Mass, have been
confirmed by investigating committee.
Parry is said to have frequented barrooms I'M
der the alias of Jones.
DR.. Pussy, in his recent letter to the arch
bishop of Canterbury, admits that for forty
years he has received the confession of all who
came to him. These confessions, he says, in
many places had become habitual at the wish
of those who made them.
|. The final revision of the New Testament by
the American and English revisers will be fin
lshed in course of a year. and will probably be
published soon after in advance OF the Old
Testament, the revision of which will not be
completed for some years.
The anomalies of church establishments are
well illustrated by the facts in regard to the
parish of Gsirloch in Scotland. There the
minister OF the parish breaches to three fami-
lies, consisting of about dozen persons, and
the Free church minister to a congregation of
800.
Moody is drawing large crowds at the Mount
Vernon Place Methodist church, Baltimore He
says that many lukewarm Christians fall in
their Christian life because they try to get
along with too little love and faith, just az
business men fall who try to do business on too
| small capital.
Bishop Littlejohn, of Long Island, VINO has
the oversight of foreign Episcopal churches.
has consecrated the new Emanuel church at
Geneva, Switzerland, of which DR.. M Van
Rensselaer, is rector. The church will accom-
modate about $50. 1t is built of gray stone.
and is an adapted Gothic.
The Methodist has discovered 1000 families
of Brooklyn that have left the Methodist Epis-
copal church, mos; of them being those having
financial and social strength. 1t further says
that n1nety-eight per centum of these ex-Meth-
odists give but one reason, and that is ''the
changeableness and uncertainty of the pastor
ate.''
A divinity student at Oberin adds to his
theological duties those of night watchman
and baggage smasher at the railroad depot. He
studies between trains, recites in the morning
hours and sleeps almost all the afternoons. He
is diligent fellow and will doubtless be in
| demand among the churches when he is ready
for ministerial duty.
Dissenters in Russia number over 15000000
The Stundists who have the same relation to
the Greek church that the Methodists do to the
Church of England, are increasing SO rapidly
that the minister of public worship has dis
patched commission to Odessa to inquire into
the circumstances attending the growth of that
and other hetorodox sects.
The ANIMAL convention of the Illinois State
Christian association, opposed to secret socie-
Of