Daily globe., 1879-07-27
SUNDAY GLOBLETs.

SUNDAY GLOBLETs
A Canadian preacher is publishing blasts
against tobacco.
Brigham Young collected s13OOO,00O to him
self from the Saints.
Local disorders of religious character are
prevalent in some parts of Ireland.
The first Catholic school in the world was es-
tablished in the year 14O by st. Justin.
Mr.. Moody will conduct revival services at
Cleveland, Ohio, during the month of October.
A Cynthiana (Ky.) church had horse race
few days ago, as means of replenishing it's
treasury.
In Baptist church in Mobile an old colored
lauy was reently baptized who claimed to be in
her 1l3th year.
Talmage's only rival in London is Sara Bern
hardt, the actress. He can't hold drumstick
to her in thinness.
One of the most widely known Baptist minis-
ters of New Jersey, Rev. J. NJ. Carpenter, has
fallen heir to 5000, 900.
There have been 5000 mission churches es-
tablished throughout the world by the various
foreign missionary societies.
! The scriptural Reading Union commen ced
its fourth year July 1st, with over 10000
members in all parts of the world.
There has been increase Of about fifty
thousaId of the Established Church of Scot
land since the last return FIVE years ago.
The Dunkers have bought Mt Morris semi
nary, Illinois, of the Methodisrs, and opened
1t as a seminary and collegiate institute
1t pays handsomely for Parson Newman TO-
stay at home this summer, for his brethern
have made him up purse of 81 900 for doing
| Charles Lamb once said that the greatest
pleasure he knew of was to do good action
by stealth and to have it found ou. by acci-
dent.
An undenominational Protestant church is to
be built in Marquette county, Michigan, and
the Republic Iron-mine has contributed 81 600
to its erection.
Pontiac, Michigan, has suffered the loss of
two steeples, one from the Episcopal church,
and the other from the Congregational The
storm Friday did it.
| colored preacher refused to supply church
in Cleveland county, N. c., because the congre.
CATION would not give him mortgage to secure
his salary for the year.
papal encyclical, the first for many years,
has been permitted by the Russian government
to be published in Poland. It is, naturally,
that directed against socialism.
Mr.. Beecher has announced that the pulpit
OF Plymouth church will be filled the last
| Sunday in August and the first three SUNDAYS
in September by the Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker.
We would not dare to say that religious peo-
pie ever become intoxicated, but something
within compels US to suggest that manv of
them are too much given to indulgence in the
"spirits of whine.''
Dr. Robert Moffat, than whom no one is bet
ter Informed on whatever concerns that part of
the world says that mission work all over
South Africa has been thrown back fifty years
by the present war with the Zulus."
The children of a colored Sunday school in
Philadelphia, when asked what Nehemia re-
proved the people for doing, showed that they
understood the case by their smart reply, ''For
a huckstering fruit an veg tables on Sunday
The Rev. Professor Patton, of Chicago. who.
received such dattering call to Scotland late
~ ASS oScAACA W sGdy dG uOmc, especially SINCE
MIR. Mccormick and other wealthy laymen of
that city have amply endowed his professional
chair.
A little girl, three or four years DID, learned
the bible text, Love one another s'What
does love one another mean?" asked her old
est sister. ''Why, must love you, and you
must love me; and I'm one and you're an.
other," was the answer.
The Rev. G. W. Biddle, for sixteen years
pastor of the First Universalist society of
Lynn, has accepted the charge of the Unlver-
salist church of Cambridge in place of the
Rev. Mr. Atwood who has been appointed
president of the Canton Theological school.
A Presbyterian minister in Colorado bas
within year organized two churches, built one
house OF worship and parsonage, bought a
church organ, established two Sunday schools
and three prayer meetings, taught three cate
chism classes, and supplied six preaching sta
tions.
A most remarkable religious service was held
in st. Louis on Sunday evening" June 29th, be-
ing nothing less than a joint meeting of Bap-
fists and Jews, held in the synagogue of the
latter and presided over jointly by the pastor,
the Rev. W. W. Boyd, and the rabbi, DR.. Son
nenchein.
Wesleyan Methodists in England expect the
coming annual returns will indicate loss of
5000 members. The Primitive Methodists
also look for a loss, while that branch of the
church known as the Methodist New Connec-
tionists look for an increase over last wears
strength.
DR.. J. W. Hanson, of the Neau Coav1aant. de-
scribes in the last issue of his paper sanguin-
ary war between himself and colony of the
cinaer le7aticulAs, an insect very like box tur-
tie with the manners of swapping turtle The
encounter took place at the best hotel in Lo-
gansport, Ind.
American churchmen being about to buy or
to build cutter for Bishop Pennick to use in
his missionary tours along the coast and rivers
of Africa, he writes to ask that they refrain.
1t would cost him $500 year to keep and run
her, whereas he can hire one in Monrovia for
300 year, which is quite saving.
The Brooklyn Tabernacle officials are offer
ing their first mortgage bonds on that building
at $75, with the assurance that DR.. TalmaRe
will return in September with money enough
to redeem all the bonds at par. For year or
more his friends in England have been quietly
collecting money to liquidate the Tabernacle
debt.
l Mr.. Gladstone still pursues theology. At the
present moment he is writing an article for the
Dissenters' organ, the British Quarterly, on the
Decay of Evangelicalism in the Church of
England" 1t is said that it will be kind of