Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-06
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.

Ilght-laclng Is not now a frequent theme Of
public discourse.
A COlored Methodist church in Abbeville. 3.
O., gave 81, 200 last year for charitable PM
poses.
cornet played by twelve-year.old girl ia a
feature Of the South Church (Pittsfeld, Mass
services.
The Baptists of Newark, New Jersey, as>
still busy wiping out debts, and with crafty
ing success.
The American United Presbyterian church
counts this year S0,692 members, and 5,467
children in Sunday schools.
1t is curious fact, and one not very agree
able, that the world will jog on just as well
when you are gone as it does now.
Mr.. Ira D. Sankey is resting at Llanduds.
Wa.es. He will assist Mr.. Moody in a cam
paign of six months in st. LOUIS next winter.
Francis Murphy, the temperance evangelist
is DUNG earnest work for the cause in San
FRANCISCO and other places on the Pacific coast.
The Co'agregationazist says that Roman
Catholic church in Dedham, Mass, has an Anti
Swearing society with over a hundred MEM
bers.
Nero used roslned Christians for kindlinr
ana bonfire material, whereby, no doubt, came
the habit OF Christians calling each other Adam
fuel.
OF the 6l,000,OOO inhabitants Of Eurone.r
Russia, only 9 per cent, it lis stated. can read
and write. The majority of these are in tho
great towns. -
DIR. John Cumming has retired from the r.s-
torate OF the church in Drury lane, London. of
which he has been SO long the popular and nae
full minister.
Parts of the bible have been translated into
20O languages, yet in only ffty-six languages
are there complete translations from Genesis
to Revelation.
1t Is some consolation to clergyman when
thief steals his manuscript sermons to know
that they can be replaced by better ones for five
cents piece.
There are in Ontario, Quebec, and Manitoba
354 Baptist churches, with ~ 4S9 members. an
increase Of 727. Three Of the congregations
are IN Manitoba.
One cent day from each member of the
Methodist church at Dunellen, NJ j.. is expect
to pay the church debt. The brethren have be-
gun, and say they will keep on to the end.
A "cheap library" Of 100 Sunday school
| books tor children to read is now sold at the
rate of six pages for cent There are $4,000
pages, and the bill for the whole lot is 1926.
i There are in the diocese of southern Ohio.
according to Bishop Jaggar's report forty-six
churches and fifteen mission stations of the
Protestant Episcopal church, and forty-fve
presbyteries.
The Seventh Day Baptists constitute about
one-third of the population of Westerly, B. l.,
their church numbers about three hundred and
seventy-hve MEMBERS and they have recently
had fruitful revival.
The rector of Reformed Episcopal church
at Chicago has announced that hereafter the
sermon will only last twenty minutes. The
music, which occupies nearly an hour, is not,
however, to be abridged.
According to the Church Times, the number
of clergymen that have left the English Church
for the Roman during the past forty five years
amounts to only per cent. Of the entire body
of the English Church clergy.
During the first quarter of the present year,
forty three Congregational ministers have been
settled, twenty-nine dismissed, and nineteen
have died. During the same period fourteen
more churches have been formed.
A bright little miss of Napa, Cal, noted for
her quaint sayings, said to her mother the other
day, Mamma, when you went to heaven to get
me did you pick out the prettiest baby on
Gods foor?" OF course mamma said yes
The Rev. G. Inglis Chaplin has withdrawn
from the Protestant Episcopal Church in Penn
owl fho T
same church in Maryland. Both have been
deposed according to cannon for such with
drawal.
In ten years the receipts Of the British and
Foreign Bible society have increased by S67,-
40. those of the Church Missionary society by
$3.50, 0O0 and those of the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel by more than
$4,000.
Many people get credit for being upri ght and
respectable merely because they have never vet
had the opportunity Of being anything else.
But soon as the restraints that have been
providentially on them are removed, they run
to great lengths in wickedness.
The parable Of the prodgal son has been
printed in the Mexican language at the Metho-
dist mission PRESS icing the second issue in
that language from any protestant press, the
American tract society having issued the first
| tract l. that language some years ago.
They have been distributing in Paris cards
on which is printed the following: thine
table of the shortest road to Heaven. Trains
leave: any time. Trains leave: when God
pleases. Price of 'eats: frst-class generosity;
second-class, faith: third-class, resignation
| A correspondent of the Baltimore Episcora1
Methodist having complained about bogus adj
vertisement which appeared in that paper, the
editor promises to drop all advertisements If
his friends will add 10000 subscribers to his
present list. He is safe in making such an
offer.
| French gentleman of undecided religious
opinions once said that it was good for him to
be in the company of atheists. He then felt
orthodox, out of mere opposition, and clearly
saw and exposed the fallacies of skeptical res-
soning. In the society of believera the contrary
effects were produced.
She asked her class of little girls who went
into the ark with Noah. None Of them seemed
to know; but one little girl thought she must
say something, and, not knowing, used her
natural-born right of guessing, and, to the
amusement Of the teacher, replied: His sis
tiers and his cousins and his aunts''
During the month of May the missionaries of
the American Sunday School Union estab-
lished and aided in the Northwest 1877 Sunday
schools, which had SIT teachers and 4, 5i3 schol-
ars-an average of five and half schools a
day, or thirty-three and two-ifths for each of
| the five Sabbaths of the month.