Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-18
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.

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Sidney, Ohio
Greece contains 6,522 Protestants to 6,01s
Roman Catholics.
Italy contains 39,4SO Protestants, 3,994,OOO
Roman Catholics.
handsome new Episcopal church is being
built at Lima, Ohio.
There twenty Baptist churches in the
young Republic of Liberia.
An effort is being made to raise 5000, 900 for
the decoration of St. Louis Cathedral in Lon
don, with mosaics.
In Michigan there 1924 Congregational
curches with membership of 16,911,-a gain
of 1859 over 1876.
ST. Peters, Rome, will accommodate $4,000
people; st. Peters, Milan, 37,OOO and St.
Paul's London, U.s. COO.
DR.. Blauvelt, who recently taken to an
asylum for the insane, is happily improving
both in mind and body.
The Rev. Lemuel Willis, one of the oldest
Universalist divines in the country, died on the
22d ult. at Warner, N. H.
! Some of the managers of Ocean Grove are
much concerned about the increase of what
| they call worldliness at that place.
Cincinnati divine honestly explains: ST
don't believe in horse-racing, but then do SO
hate to have anyone pass on the road"
Each convict in the State prison at Concord
is allowed to take one religious paper. Most
of them prefer paper OF tobacco, however.
| The sixty-nnth annual meeting of the
| American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions is to be held in Milwaukee, Wis, Octo-
| Der 1.
/ The number Of Christian churches doubled
| in Japan the last year. The opening there is
said to be without parallel in missionary his
tory.
Mr.. Spurgeon is i'll again. His church is,
however, engaged in preparing to celebrate the
completion of the twenty-ffth year of his pas
torate.
The Rev. DR.. Alex Burns, of Simpson Cen
tenary College, Iowa, has accepted the princi-
palship of the Wesleyan Female College, Ham
ilton, Can.
The foundation for 100000 Jesuit college
in San Francisco has been begun. 1t will be
in every respect an institution with all the re-
quirements for modern education.
To add to the attractions of the preaching of
} Mr.. Rossvalley the converted Jew, it is an
: nounced that during the services he will sing
some hymns in Hebrew and English
In Berlin, with population of 100000,
only 80, 600 persons attend public worship, and
there are 20, 600 burials every year without any
religious service. This is worse than Chicago.
Norwich Bulletin: A prudent lady applied to
l a free-Bibe distributor the other day for a
large copy. She said it handy to press
flowers in, and it made a nice ornament for the
centre-table.
Young man, said a minister to youth of
, his congregation, 'do you know what relations
you sustain in the world? ''Yes sir; two
cousins and a grandmother; but / do not in
tend to sustain them much longer
Two Mormon apostles have been preaching in
Switzerland with some success, especially
among the women, but the people of Orbe
mobbed them, and the police declined to pro-
tect them and forbade them to hold their SER
vices.
woman of Goderich, Ont, aged So has
just received divine message to go to Hamil-
ton and fast. She has obeyed, and passed sew
enteen days without tasting food. On pre-
vious occasion she says she tasted forty-fve
days.
DR.. Haven, Of the Methodist Episcopal
church of America, has been suggesting an
9cumenical Methodist conference to the Wes-
leyans of England, who have appointed COM
mittee to consider the matter and report next
year.
The Catholics Young Mems National Union
will petition to Congress for the appointment
of Catholic chapains in the army and navy.
The Union claims that the rank and file of the
army and navy are more than two-thirds Cath
3 olics.
A Presbyterian has issued book called
:, Baptism in Nutshell A Baptist paper
1 loosely remarks the appropriateness of this
t for Presbyterian BRETHREN a nutshell will
hold enough water for purposes of sprink-
ling.
, The ordinary sacred concerts which continue
to be tolerated are sacred frauds At sacred
concert in Boston the leading cantatrice sang
Pretty as u picture" which was encored four
times, and Don't Tickle Me- was called for
three times.
Burlington Ha,okeye: 1t would make a
stone image turn green with envy to observe
1 the expression of profound abstraction that
settles down on the face Of a worshipper when
:. the contribution basket gets within about three
peWS OF hin.
DR.. Watson, of Evansville. Ind, says that
n since the Ohio & Mississippi railroad changed
i their whole track from St. Louis to Cincinnati,
one Sabbath day, there has been more accidents
:, and deaths upon it than before, and trav-
= elers shun it whenever they can.
The steeple of the Episcopal Church of the
~ Holy Trinity in Brooklyn is being
thoroughly repaired. An elaborate scaffolding
has been erected from the pavement to the top
!" of the spire. Every worn and broken stone is
IL to be removed and new ones substituted.
! The opposition officially made in England by
ecclesiastics of the Established Church to the
Reformed Episcopal Church. has greatly tended
- to draw attention to the new movement, and to
T. swell its ranks. The Reformed Episcopolians
u are exceedingly happy over the notice they have
/" had.
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The First Presbyteria ian church Of Cincinnati
u has just celebrated its semi-centennial with
q great rejoicings, and the gathering of as many
t. of its old members as could conveniently be
e, brought together Twenty-four of the original