Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-25
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.

| The preachers still a majority among the
outgoing passengers for Europe.
| Mr. Beecher is coming filthy lucre out West
and Brooklyn is given over to faro
The foundation for Jesuit college. to cost
*2oo'ooO, has been begun in San Francisco.
There have been about 400 additions to the
| ne" Haven churches since Mr. Moody's meet
ings.
| Ihe hev. d. 81 Jessup, D. D., of the Presby-
terrain mission in Syria, has arrived in this
| country a visit.
Nebraska has l3o Baptist churches, with a
mem bership of nearly 1000. This is the work
OF twenty-five years.
! The Presbyteriaus claim that, like the Con-
gregationalists they have lately paid off 81
| OOOO00 OF church debts.
| That prosperous Pagan" Bob IngersolI, has
gone to Scotland to work up evidence to prove
That Burns was infide.
! Cough says there is in every man mine of
erue manhood. 1t takes . powerful amount of
blasting to get at it sometimes
oel"yn college is to be founded at Cam
orloge IN honor of the late Bishop Selwyn. The
fund already amounts to sl5n00
Inc actual gain in church membership in
illinois Tor the past year has been 9S6 among
the 22.7l4 members of 24O churches.
Some narrow minded bigot asks the question.
| Gan christian so to the circus?" A Chris
'i''n can go anywhere, to the circus especially
| The practice of having an appointed and an
| nounced topic for discussion in PRAYER meet
anss Is rapidly gaining favor in many churches.
yellow fever has appeared at Cincinnati
and Sunday-school scholars there make S5
an hour teaching the old inhabitants how to
pray.
The old Methodist church on Church street
Boston, has been sold to the Jews, who will re-
model it and make of it a very handsome eyna-
! gog,e.
Texas has seven religious papers of it's own
anu TWO temperance papers, none of which
have an exceedingly prosperous time in getting
along.
Among the recent victims of the famine
fever in China is the Roman Catholic Vicar
| Apostolic, of Tehe-ly, Southeast China. MGR.
Dubar.
In proportion to population, the Bible has
been more exclusively bought and spread in
| Spain during the last ten years than in either
France or Italy.
The Protestant orphanage established at
Florence, Italy, in 1872 has received and edu
Gated more than 100 children from all parts of
Italy. 1t now has thirty inmates.
The Rev. G. P. Hard, who has for some wears
been doing missionary work at Madras finds
| the climate of India disastrous to his health.
and therefore returns TO this country
The Rev. G. D. Mackay, of the Canada Pres
byterian mission in Formosa, has taken for a
| wife Chang Mia Tsong, young native convert.
Hes been in love with her Formosa year,
The bishop of Manchester says that some of
the English clergy are SO poor that they do not
taste meat more than once or twice a week
and are glad to get the cast-off clothing of their
parishioners.
Mr.. Thomas Keso, leading Methodist of
Baltimore, lately deceased was the founder of
an orphans home, to which he appropriated
| 100000. By his will he left numerous be.
| quests to charitable institutions
| The United Presbyterian church of Scotland
reports this year 173 554 communicates, an in.
crease of about 5000 since 1875. There are 534
congregations and 84l Sunday sch .ols The
total income of the church was 81 1896, 1916.
| Jewish rabbi was lately brought before
police court for slaughtering OK according
to Hebrew methods. Professional testimony
| was given to prove that there was no unneces-
| sary suffering inflicted, and the charge was dis
! missed.
At the recent anniversary meeting OF the
Tract Society in London, the chairman stated
| that there at that very time cargo of
banished heather god sand war-clubs from one
| of tho icla rdo of he
city of London.
The colored Baptists of Petersburg Va. are
In state of high enthusiasm over the building
| of their new church, the cornerstone of which
has just been laid with great rejoicing and in
accordance with the Masonic ritual The build
ing is to cost s325, 900.
A presiding elder of the Methodist church
asked a brother who aspired to a license what
was the difference between an exhorter and
preacher. Well you see, was the answer, "a
preacher takes a text and sticks to it, but an
exhorter amt bound to stick
An interesting array of statistics is presented
by the Congregational Conference of Minneso.
ta There are in the State ia Congregational
churches and 5,92l members. Six churches
have been organized during the year and eighty
two have received missionary aid.
The bulls appointing the Rt. Rev. J. J. Keane
Bishop of Richmond were received by his
Grace the Most Rev. Archbishop, Thursday
morning last. The conservation will take
place to-day in St. Peters Cathedral, Rich
mond, Va, and Archbishop Gibbons will of
! ticiate at the ceremony.
The Rev. Reuben White was in the midst of
revival sermon in the African Baptist church,
Little Rock, when Deacon Bush entered ex-
citedly, walked up the middle aisle, and
| opened fire with a revolver. The clergyman
lodged behind the desk and esce ped the bull
lets. Bush accused White Of Beecherism
| The Rev. DIR. B. M. Palmer, the eminent
Presbyterian divine of New Orleans, has given
a rare illustration of self-sacrifce. While away
On his summer vacation, he learned that the
| yellow fever had broken out, and he at once re-
turned to the city to give his personal efforts
| towards mitigating the horrors of the scouree.
| lady who owns and edits a religious paper
IN New York city, announces that she has set
/ apart day in Septembe to fast and pray for