Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-02
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.

mans creed is too often his screed .-Ro.-
ton transcript.
Mr.. Kinball has raised nearly So, 500. 600 for
church debts.
The Methodist papers of last week report
more than 5000 converts
FIFTY Anglican clergymen died in January,
Thirty Of them were 70 years of age and up
ward.
man out West dropped counterfeit half
dollar in the contribution box and then dron-
ped in fit.
Some 100000 has been raised for the en-
dowment OF the proposed See of Liverpool. and
100000 is yet needed.
a member Of the Missouri legislature has
introduced bill to prohibit playing marbles
or croquet on Sunday.
"A Mohammedan named Winchee has en-
braced Christianity, and joined the Lutheran
church at Hagerstown, Md.
DR.. Stanton has been consecrated R;sbo,, IF
Queensland Australia, and has sailed from
London for his distant See.
The jubilee usually proclaimed by the popes
on the year of their accession is to be held in
March, April and May, 1879.
The Hon. and Rev. Algernon Stanley. a son
OF the late Lord Stanley, of AIderIey, has inst
seeded to the church of Rome
Mrs. Charles Brook who died recen+,y :,
Lelcestershire, gave to the church of England
during her life not less than s7OOOGO.
The Presbyterians contributed for var;o,.
purposes last year an average of s14.6O per
member; the Congregationslists $3.50.
Rev. John Locke Martin has been removed
from the passionate of the Presbyterian church
az Den1son, Texas, on account of drunkenness.
1t is reported that the Vatican has decided to
create certain new dioceses in the United States
III consequence of the growth of the church in
this country.
The consistory to be held by the none for tho
! creation of new cardinals is not to tax. n,.oa
before the month of J une when Leo XIII will
| 1t is said, confer FIVE or six hats.
heV. henry Rensswig Of Bethany, Mimi,
mas been chosen delegate to the general SYNOD
OF tne Moravlan church, which meets in Ger
many shortly, in place of Rev. E. A. Frueauff.
deceased.
The congregational Year Book for 1879 re-
| ports gain of lO,059 members the whole
membership being $4,000. For home and for
eign religious work the churches contributed
So, 265, $50.
The statistical committee of the Presbvterian
general council has held meeting, and adonted
plans to gather statistics of all the Preshvter-
| ian churches, subject to approval by their sn-
preme courts.
! ine Dell which for sixty years has hung in
the steeple Of the old church belonging to the
FIRST Methodist society, Lynn, Mass, has been
| removed to the new church, on Park square.
1t was cast by the worthy old patriot. Paul
| Revere, in 1876
IL is estimated that the State of New York
has 6,4OO ecclesiastical organizations, with sit
tlngs for 2,6Oo,O 900 persons, and membership
of !, 100000. The value of the church proper-
ty is reckoned at $1l7 100000. The Mothodists
are the most numerous
| little girl was asked by her mother. on her
return from church, how she liked the preacher
Didn't like him at all, i" was the reply, ssWhv2''
asked her mother. "Cause he preached till he
made me sleepy, and ther hollered so loud he
wouldn't let me go to Sleep
There Is in Chicago Sunday-school for
Chinese, which meets every Sunday afternoon.
OF the one hundred or more Cinnamon in that
city. 26 attend the school regularly and there il
q teacher Tor every scholar. The converts are
said to be generous contributors
The Manhattan Congregational Association
OF New York and Brooklyn reports nine
| churches. with 5 12o men ber.. The contrIbu-
uons amounted last year to $62.71l. This is
the new association formed two years ago, and
does not include Plymouth Church.
The Rev. W. T. Wylie, having for some time
successfully administered the affairs of Wilson
college, Chambersburg Pa. now goes to Butler,
Pa, to be pastor of the Presbyterian church of
that place. The church is one of the ablest and
most prosperous in Western Pennsylvania.
The English and American Baptists report =
total OF S6,OOO members in Asia. OF these 90
VOO are connected with the American Baptist
mission in Burnah. An additional 5000 be-
long to the same society's missions in India,
| Siam and China, leaving 5000 for the English
/ Baptists.
1 The debt of the Southern Methodist Publish
ing house, at Nashville. Tenn. IS $500, 600.
which natures July l. The assets are estimat-
] ed at S200,COO, but it is not believed that more
than SlO0, 900 could be obtained at public sale.
To meet the debt about 100000 has been raised
on bonds.
| Rev. Charles A. Smith, D. D., of PhiIadelphia.
is dead. He was for many years Lutheran
minister, entering the Presbyterian church
about eighteen years ago. He served Pres
byterian church in Orange, N. j., several years,
and spent the latter part of his life in PhiIa-
delphia. He was SO years of age.
| There is a certain pathos mingled with the
politeness of a little boy who, on being asked
! by his Sunday school teacher who made these
everlasting hills by which we are surrounded.
| replied: II really don't know, sir; 1 have
only lived in the village about ten days, and
haven't yet made any acquaintances.''
Of the revival meetings in Baltimore it i.
said: For many years past there has not
been SO general religious interest in Balti-
more. In everv part of the city special relig-
ious services have been held. Even the Ritual
lists have begun meetings after the Moody FASH
ion, and sing some Of the same hymns''
1t is proposed says the Record of London, to
! restore Grasmere church, with which the mem
| ory of Wordsworth is so intimately associated,
in order to provide additional accommodation
for public worship. Care will, however, be
taken, as far as possible not to destroy any of
the antiquated furnishings of the building.
The fourteen principal Protestant churches
in Springfield, Mass, have an aggregate debt of
$2ls, 900. The pay $4,000 year for PASTORS
salaries, and S32,500 for other expenses The
largest salary is that paid by the First Congre-
gational church-$4, 600. In seven years the
churches have increased their debt from S14s.-
500 to $21S0O0.
Most of the English cathedrals still bear