Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-08
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.

BOSTON
was recently organized with twentv-one mem
bers.
Bishop Kip, Of California, recently celebrated
the twenty-hfth anniversary of his consecr..
ton.
Lewiston, in Maine, with 10000 population
has not had an arrest for drunkenness in twsn-
| ty years.
Inc Dunkards in the United States have
i'ooo ministers, 800 congregations and 100 coo
! members.
1t IS sad that during the past year Queen
victoria has donated 325 900 to the canse Of
| temperance.
Inc New England railroads have decided 70
discontinue the issuance of half-fare tickets to
clergymen.
"nen uho contribution box comes round. if
you don't give cent you should nod, and nod
ding is assent.
Inc American Bible society is now able to
print $50 copies of its agate Bible a. day. or
about one a minute.
1t Is estimated that of the 60 900 students in
the $50 colleges of the United States and Can
ada, 5000 are protesting Christians.
The Rev. Nathan Brown D. D.. has translat-
ed about half of the New Testament into the
japanese tongue for the Baptist converts.
The Methodist Recorder. laments that the Old
Clty-Road Chapel, London in which John Wes-
ley founded Methodism, is embarrassed by
debt.
Bishop Perry, of Iowa, has recently received
Applications from a Methodist and Consreea-
m Ste
church.
Already the notes of preparation are being
sounded for Christmas festivities in the SIM
DAY schools, and the increase in the attendance
of scholars is noticeable.
MI Moody recently, from the puloi5 in a
Baltimore church, said: before God would
rather preach in a barn than in a church paid
Tor by church lotteries
Japan has fifteen Protestant missions and
lol missionaries, including wives. OF mission
stations there are ninety-four, and of organ
lied churches forty-four.
The archbishop OF Canterbury is understood
to have drafted u bill to be brought forward in
Parliament for regulating ceremonial prac-
tices in the Church of England.
NJ "tieeu preachers We're lately prosecuted
IN Edinburgh for behaving in a ''riotous, out
rageous and disorderly manner" shouting,
howling and making great noise
1t is stated that since Col. Ingerson began to
purchase idols, heather gods, and cognate
fauna, the price OF Eastwood Indians for to-
bacco signs has gone up 25 per cent
The report that the Rev. DR.. Howard Nal
of y
from the baptist and enter the Episcopal de
nomination, is denied by DR.. Malcolm himself
The work of evangelzing the Jews has been
very successful in Sweden. The center of this
work IS the seaport of Gothen burg where sew
eral thousand Jews meet in the Lutheran
church at one service.
The strenuous attempts of the Evangelicals
of Ireland to suppress ritualism have failed in
every instance. Both the synods OF Cork and
Dublin have refused to sanction any inter
ference with ritualistic services.
The Rev. L. E. White, a young Baptist cler-
gyman of Sumter, S. c., was shot and killed
last week while driving to conference with his
newly made wife A negro killed him. rnistak-
ing him. it is said, for q prominent Democratic
politician.
young man with q terrific cold in his head.
sitting by the side Of his best girl in crowded
church, never fully realizes the awful response
bllltles Of life until he struggles with all the
force OF his entire being to keep back an insdi-
GUS sneeze
The English Wesleyan Methodists formed in
1872 denominational insurance company,
with capital of S125,0O0. Nearly two-thirds
of the correctional property is insured in it.
The income last year was $4,000, and the loss
about 600.
Fresh proposals are understood to have passed
between the Vatican and the German govern
ment relative 10 the filling up of the Roman
Catholic in Germany, but no mutually
satisfactory settlement of the question has yet
been arrived at.
In the heart of the Scotch highlands has been
founded Roman Catholic monastery and
school. The buildings, which are not yet COM
pleted, will cost $3.50, 900. Lord Lovat gave
the site, and the institution is in charge of the
Benedictine fathers.
The Rev. Brooke Lambert has resigned the
vicarage Of Tamworth, England. In a COM
munication to his parishioners he assigns as his
reason that his income is insufficient, and that
increased family claims compel him to seek
living in some other than the clerical vocation.
The Chinese of San Francisco have brought
over en- expert priest for the express purpose
of propitiating All Toa, their devil or spirit of
evil. They think that All Toa is incen sed by
the little attention that has been paid to him
in this country, and they have resolved to m axe
amends.
The first Methodist Protestant in Ohio is still
living, well preserved and active layman,
Brother Joseph Wells, OF Wellsyille, o., now
past 80. Cornelius Springer was almost as
soon in the field Reformer in the State, out
Brother Wells claims the seniority of service
by few months.
Many of the churches and clergy of New
York city and Brooklyn are changing their
morning hour of service from half-past 10 to
IL. It is said one-half the churches in New
York have accepted the change, and a circular
letter is going the round of the Brooklyn
churches to the same end.
A little boy in Sunday school put a poser to
his teacher. The lady was telling her class
how God punished the Egyptians by causing
the frst-born of each household to be slain.
The little boy listened attentively. At the
proper interval he mildly inquired: What
would God have done if there had been
twins?"
The Rev. Levi Little handed to a conductor
on the Old Colony railroad, instead of fare, a
religious tract, at the same time explaining
that, in his opinion. distributor of tracts
ought to ride free. The conductor demanded
money, but the clergyman refused to either
pay or get off the train. fight ensued, and
Brother Little was forcibly elected.
The clergymen of Newburgh have resolved
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