Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-19
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.

The Rev. Thomas K. Beecher is manager of
Cremation society, Elmira, NY.
The fair in aid of the Roman Catholic Ca
thedral in New York city realized S175,
The Protestant church in Canada will prob
ably divide itself into high neck and low neck.
Archbishop Eyre, of Glasgow, presides over
an archdiocese containing over $4,000 Catho-
lies.
mrs. Van Colt, the revivalist is said to have
oressy daughter. Some poor fellow will get
Colt yet.
Ane neV. Melle, of Lawrenceburg, Ind, had
nis Leu frozen on last Sunday while preaching
in his pulpit.
The late George NJ. Marsh, of Portsmouth N.
H., left between $50, 900 and 800 O00 to tho
Episcopal church.
It is the humble Christian pastor who CON-
verts people, not the bowling dervish of aero
bratic Christianity.
On the Pacific coast the average attendance
of Chinese boys and girls upon the Protestant
Sunday schools is 1000.
preacher may get soaking wet on his vav
to church and yet be exceedingly dry the mo-
ment be mounts the pulpit.
violin is the recent addition made to the
musical force of the choir of the Second Pres
byterian church of Madison, Ind.
Boston has at last abandoned the ancient
custom of ringing certain Of the church bells
at sunrise and at o'clock at night.
1t is rather wicked for Boston morninp
papers to publish the names of all the deacous
and church members who go sleigh-riding OK
Sunday.
MIR. Spurgeon does not believe that slight
weakness for ''alf-and-' alf' will prove
barrier to his eventually entering the New
Jerusalem.
Professor David Swing will not have to
preach IN theatre next year, as his Chicago
friends are going to build for him lecture
hall costing S150,000.
The Presbyterian church at Dixon, ILL.,. has
just been helped wholly out of debt. Two
women took the matter in hand, and contri-
buttons had to follow
Scientific Boston now sings its bvmns at
prayer-meetings not out of bymn-books Init
IRON hymn-screens, wherein they are projected
by means of stereopticon.
| Beecher says that the history of our treat
ment Of the Indians ought to bring the crimson
blush OF shame to the cheeks of every man
who loves justice and religion
Ihere are IN all Tennessee but three Metho-
dist preachers who tobacco, and thew are
old men who learned the habit when thew were
little boys, and cannot now break themselves
of it.
Cardinal McCloskey, of New York has for
of &lo 81,
receiving money deposits at the request of
pensioners or others. He thinks it would be
impolitic.
Bishop Gilbert Haven who is making an ex-
| tended tour through Texas, recently shocked
the feelings of a very respectable congregation
at Austin by stating that Jesus Christ was
''lynched.''
In quite number of churches special
prayers are being offered for ''the press, pub
fishers, editors and authors" This is class of
people, we think, not often remembered in
any ones prayers.
In Bay City, Mich, Sunday has come to be
so largely broken by both business men and
sports that Sunday society has been organ
lied, and business men are labored with to
sign Sunday-keeping pledge.
| Ane DSpIlst cnurcn IN farls France, Is now
composed of ITO members. At least two-t thirds
are converts from Romanism. The Rev. D. c.
Potter visited this church last summer and
found seventeen Frenchmen in it,
The Methodist population of the world is es-
timated at 20, 100000, and the number of COM
municants at 4. 4S9,S7 In the United States
the membership is about 8, 400. 900, with 26,642
local preachers and IL, 1874 itinerant preachers.
The new church of the Sacred Heart, Fitch
burg Massachusetts, is nearly completed, and
was used for the first time for Christmas
services. The structure is built of wood in the
early English Gothic style, eighty feet long by
fifty wide.
Some men lay the f1attering JUNCTION to their
souls that they are very charitable because
they every morning clothe the naked and feed
the hungry, which, being properly translated,
means that they dress themselves and 60 down
to breakfast
The Protestant Episcopal church is making
satisfactory progress in Iowa. Four new
churches and chapels have just been completed,
and in each case indebtedness has been al
lowed to accrue in the work of church build
ing, and no appeal has been made for help from
| abroad.
| Mr.. Spurgeon is credited with this design on
bubbles happiness: ''When I am marrying
young couples generally tell the young lady
TO let her husband be the head, for that is &C
cordlng to scripture and nature; but 1 always
| advise her to be the neck, and twist him round
which way she likes
| The Peoria Qll.) Baptist church, composed of
| those who recently left the First church be-
cause OF difference of view the temperance
! question. have just dedicated new house Of
| worship. Two hundred dollars of the indebt-
edness was raised on dedication day, leaving
| $500 yet to be provided for.
On Christmas day fifty converts were i'm
mersed in the Delaware river at Mount Pleas
| ant, which is near Lambertville There was
much shivering and chattering of teeth. Some
| OF the unsanctifed beholders declared that the
proceeding was daring violation of the rules of
good health and common sense
The members of the Vermont legislature
hold prayer meeting every morning, and they
are said to be not only we'll attended, but full
of life and interest. The meetings are held in
the large Agricultural Committee room, and
cordial welcome is extended to all. At some
OF the meetings more than 100 are present.
The Congregational ministers of Chicago in
discussing popular amusements at their meet
ing last week, generally agreed that cards, bill
1ards, theaters, dancing, ETC., were not evil in
themselves, but had become evils, and that the
line of true reform lay, not against amuse-
ments per Sc, but in overcoming evil with
good.