Daily globe., 1879-05-18
SUNDAY GLOBELErs

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indianapolis has female sexton who does
not consider burying people intau dig.
During last year ls.0 600 members of Sunday
schools joined the churches in Illinois.
The late Bishop Amas. of the nre+hoa;o.
church. died worth quarter of million dol
lars.
According to fourI Albany clerpymen
theaters and public halls are not ohiection,
able.
Rev. A. L. Kline, D. D., has been comnelled
Wy 1alilng health to resign the pastorate of the
church at Yazoo City, Miss.
In Mansfield, Ohio, seven churches of differ
emu denominations tave united to work with
ana 1or each other in organized charity.
Inc last sheets of the bible translated bv
rev. Drs. Riggs and Williamson into the Da-
kota language have passed through the ,,ess
The Lutheran Observer says that denom;na-
tlon has more orphan asylums in pronort;on -
us members than any other Protestant cbnrcb
The Rev. Noah M. Wells, of Vienna. Mich
is said t" be the oldest Presbyterian minister
OF the United States. He is in his ninetv-sev-
enth year.
Macon mas been selected as the place for the
next annual convention of the GEORGIA State
sunday School association, to be held Nav 3Otb
to June 1st.
One sign of the hard times in ENGLAND and
Wales IS the falling off in marriages. Onlv
l89,657 were registered in 1878; in 1875 there
were POI, ,S74.
MI Loats: of Frederick, Md, who recentlv
oled. LETT an estate amounting to about S75.-
wv Tor the founding of a Lutheran fam.la
orphan asylum.
A movement has been commenced :, 49,.
Church Of England for the admission Of a
class OF ministers similar to the local preachers
In the Methodist church,
several OF the Congregational newspaners
are IN spirited controversy as to whether the
future punishment of the wicked is to he
eternal or everlasting"
1t is becoming customary in Hartford Con.
nectlcut, to send the floral decorations of
churches, funerals, weddings and parties to the
hopltal and asylum for the insane
MI. Sankey has been invited to take part in
religious services in Church of ENGLAND
church, greatly to the displeasure of those who
prefer rituallstic to evangelical measures.
| Over $50 persons have been brought into the
cnorch through the influence OF the Park Mis-
sion Sunday school of Louisville, KY, which
was started fifteen years ago with eight mem
bers.
The Russian church has 1000 persons il
molly orders. There is no use for more thar
half of these. Many of them are in a stat.
OF great poverty, some having to live by beg
ging.
LIZ Sawyer, the Universalist pastor at Ron
dout, New York, recently preached for the Rev
NJ. s. Terry, pastor Of the Methodist church ir
that place. The courtesy is creditable to bot1
parties.
In Mill Hill college,. London there are thirty
eight students preparing themselves for tn
priesthood, with the intention of being mis-
slonaries to the negroes of America and th
pagans of India.
new association in the Irish Presbyteria,
church, composed of those who believe in in
strumental music, has been started, for de
Tending the exercise of christian liberty in th
service of praise.
\ There is parish in Donegal, Ireland, tb,
former name OF which was ''Termonmacquig
anrhytullaghobegly." 1t is now called Tul
laghobegly for short. Some day they will ge
to calling it Hogby.
Eighty churches in Detroit, Mich, after ma
ture dellberation by large committee of al
their members, have resolved to lump all thei
church debts into one pile, and then proceed t
remove that pile all together
NO man knows what true religion is so wei
as the poor farmer who sits down contentedI
to his evening meal of cold potatoes, KNOWN
that his neighbor is off on visit and has lef
the door of his hencoop wide open.
The collections in aid of the Jewish sufferer
of szegedin have been very large in Austria
All the scrolls of the law and of the synagogu
utensils were saved at the time of the food
There is to be a big Jewish hospital built i
Vienna.
Rev. Jabez s. Swain. the veteran evangelist
who seemed a man in middle life forty yeal
ago, retains in remarkable degree, his oil
vigor. He breaches in New London, his home
quite frequently still, and occasionally trave
to points beyond.
There are hints at the possibility of an inde
pendent Methodist church movement in th
northern part of Philadelphia by some dis
affected persons. It is said that women as we
RS men are to be licensed to preach and ordain
ed to the pastoral Office.
Be careful when having your infant christ
ened to give the clergyman the correct name
An Elmira baby, whose parents intended it
be called Josephine, retired from the baptisms
font as William Henry. Little Billy felt yer
mad about it, but the mischief has been sine
, rectifed.
An Englishman was boasting to q Yanke
that they had book in the British museu1
which was once owned by Cicero. ''Oh, ths
amt nothin' p retorted the Yankee. SIN tt
museum in Boston they've got the lead penc
that Noah used to check off the animals tn.
went into the ark
: During the last eighteen months the con
mittee of the fund for the extension of M
thodism in England have voted over $54 900 I
one hundred and ffty-six new chapels and er
largements, providing additional accommod,
tion for 3O,329 hearers. The societies assiste
have been chiefly in rural districts.
The movement for the regeneration of Pa
estine, discussed at the Hebrew Information
. Conference, in Paris, has been indorsed by IL
historian, Graetz, Baron Hirsch, Lionel
Rothschild and Crlmeux. The Regeneration
means the planting of schools and orphanag
for the young in the sacred country.
The English "Bible and Prayer Union'' b
now over 1000 enrolled members, of who
2,728 are outside of Great Britain, living
every quarter of the globe. There are. al
branch unions in many foreign countrie
Cards Of membership with the calendar