Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-06-29
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.

a 12-year old girl plays the comet in the
South church, Pittsdeld, Mass.
The lady with new boanet never likes to
hear clergyman pray for rain.
The Rev. G. w. Gile, of Lawrence, Mass. has
been called to the Baptist church at Pittsfeld.
The Rev. NJ. F. Sargent was recently installed
pastor of the Congregational church at Winnie
bago, Ill.
There are no Strawberries or oysters in AZ
RIGA. Hence religion is at very low ebD in
that country.
Miss Sarah Smiley, of evangelistic fame, is
at Saratoga, where she gives bible readings in
DIR. Strong's parlors.
The death of the Rev. Mr. Gardner. a prenoi
nent Unlversalist preacher of Bastrop county.
Texas, IA announced.
Ministerial influenza is the work of parasites,
called rhlzopods. Sulphur fumes, instead of a
trip to Europe, will kill them
The Rev. Mr.. Abbott, formerly of the edito-
rial staff OF the 'Congregatlonalist, has Joined
the Reformed Episcopal church.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey's ''Hold the
Fort was played by the band of the besieged
IN Ekowe, Zululand, every Sunday.
The Rev. Henry A. Dwight recently died at
Northampton, Mass. For many years he was
engaged in teaching in Norfolk, Va
An up-country church society offers reward
for the arrest Of the person who surreptiousIy
introduced a hornets nest into the grab-bae =
The first ordination of Chinaman to the
Protestant Episcopal ministry in the United
States took place in San Francisco last month.
The Park Presbyterian church. of Newark.
n ~ have called the Rev. J. Clement
French, D. D., lately of Brooklyn, to their
pulpit. He has accepted.
+ An old niser, having listened to powerful
discourse on charity, said: THAT sermon so
strongly proves the necessity of alms-giving
| that I've almost mind to beg'
! The Rey. Conrad Emil Lindberg, pastor of
Zion's Swedish Lutheran church, Of Philadel-
! phia, has been called to the pastorate of the
Swedish Church of Gustavus AdoIphus. New
! York City.
In letter from India General Grant men,
lions that there is universal testimony to the
good effected by missionaries in that land. The
resident English, he says, speak in the highest
terms of their work.
The Rev. DR.. Jessup Presbyterian mission
airy, told the Baptists that when he reached
heaven, next to greeting Paul there was no man
he should be more glad to meet than the Bap-
fist Adoniram Judson.
The Methodist advocate of Atlanta Ga
wants its readers to bear in mind ALWAYS the
distinction that ''the Methodist Episcopal
church of God is not the Methodist Episcopal
| church South of God
! DR.. Pussy writes % a friend denying report
which gained much circulation in England.
that he had most earnestly urged DR.. Newman
to refuse the offer of cardinals hat. The idea
is, he says, simply absurd
On recent Sunday evening twelve hundred
persons in st. Johns Roman Catholic church.
| Rochester, Num-, stood up and repeated, after
Father Turner, solemn pledge of abstinence
from all Intoxicating drinks for one year.
large manufacturing firm in Illinois has
assumed the support of missionary of the
American Sunday School Union in Minnesota;
and an ex-governor Of great Western State
gives new pledge to sustain missionary.
merchant in Natal, South Africa, has re-
Gently given 100000 to the Wesleyan Mission
airy society, of London. This is from man
VI IAt SIOuuu, WHO OuSEL 20 Know WaeGQer or
not foreign missionary work is worth doing
! The project for Pan-Methodist conference
is again agitated in the Methodist papers,
Another effort will be made to get the British
Wesleyan conference, which has SO far avoided
com uniting itself, te cooperate in the scheme.
The advance has taken to republishing ''per-
sonals' in order to secure circulation among
the worldly minded. Wouldn't wonder if ere
long it should go into the chrome business,
and give deck of cards to each new subscriber.
return as to the religious persr ssions of
the non-commissioned officers and men of the
British army shows that, of total of 9S, 842
men, 62,86O belong to the Church of England,
2O,672 are Roman Catholics, 1925 Presbyter-
ians, and 1885 are Protestants of other de-
| nominations
The summary Of the Roman Catholic mis-
sions in Asia for 1873 shows that there are 90
bishops, $3.50 priests. and 1885, 663 Catholics,
against so bishops, 1856 priests, and 2, l91 200
Catholics in 1870 In the provinces of Mon
golia and Mantchuria there are 81, Sit Catholics
in population of 100000
St. Georges Free church, in Edinburg, is as
liberal as it is wealthy. Last year, in addition
to paying all the expenses incurred in it's own
main tenance paying PASTORS salary, ETC., it
ontlibuted more than 1926, 900 to the sustenta-
ton fund Of the Free church, to support min
lnsters in the weaker charges.
In the warm weather, when writing is
troublesome and economy is desirable, some of
the religious newspapers fill their columns
with the fms and tails of old sermons. Some
Of their readers do not find it out. When they
get tired of reading these they turn for refresh
The New York correspondent of the Living
Church says: lit is open secret that prepa-
rations are making for the trial of the Rev. Mr..
Prescott, of st. Clements church, Philadel-
phia. The trial is to take place under the
former canons, and not under the canon re-
! Gently passed by the Pennsylvania conyen-
tion.''
The Boston Journal states that the infant
daughter of the young wife of Rev. Jonas
Burnham, of Pennington a well-known Con-
gregationalist clergyman, was brought into the
, Congregational church in that town few Sun
days since and publicly baptized by Rev. Ly-
man Abbott, of New York. The father is in
| the eigh:y-frst year of his age.
The Karen Christians in Burmah have de-
cided that they need money for the eadow-
ment of an academy. So they taxed them
selves at the rate of 20 rupees apiece, which is
equal to ten of our dollars. Among some Of
, the denominations in this country the average
/ annual contribution of a member is not more
than the cost of six good cigars.
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