Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-12
SUNDAY GLOBELErs.

The fact that the Bible starts out with a
snake-story is making lots of infdels.
The Flftieth Baptist church of Philadelphia
mas raised enough to pay its 1000 debt.
Ahurricane destroyed the Louisiana Orphans
home, New Orleans, Methodist institution.
The translation of the new testament into
Japanese has been completed by the Rev. DR..
L. 81. Gulick.
EVangellstlc meetings are being held in CAL
cutta, India and very considerable religious
interest is manifested.
Talmages legs are reported to stand an
ocean voyage very we'll, but We have no statis-
tics in regard to his stomach.
Aweek from to-day the Rev. DR.. Gallahe-
will begin his duties as pastor of the Hanson
Place Baptist church, Brooklyn.
Amagansett, Long Island, mourns the loss of
Pastor Oakley, who resigns after twelve years
or hard and not too well paid work.
Had the Rev. Mr.. Wigton, of Berkshire.
Ohlo lived one year more, he would have COM
| pleted his century. He was Baptist.
The duke of Argyle speaking of recent
church fair, said that he did not regard bazaar
| as heroic method of raising money for church
purposes.
The Emperor Sigismund said that a man had
| a right to destroy his enemies and then added
| that the most efectual way to DESTROY an en-
| envy is to make him your friend.
A priest asked of a condemned criminal in
| Paris jail: what kind of conscience have
your 1T is good as new,'' replied the
prisoner, "for have never used it,
| Two little girls were comparing progress in
! catechism study. II have got to original SIM
said one. "How far have you got?" ''Oh, I'm
beyond redemption" said the other.
| Principal Tulloch, after editing the Record
OF the Church of Scotland'' for more than
seventeen years: resigned that position to ac-
cept the editorship Of :'Frazer's Magazine''
| prominent religious paper turns solemn
passage of Scripture into weak Joke by
esaying to its subscribers: 'sThe harvest is
past, the summer is ended, and we are not
PAID
large ice-cream garden on Fulton street.
Brooklyn, has been converted into place for
evangelistic services for forty evenings Every
| evening sermon is preached, limited to twen-
| ty minutes.
Judging from the way women cut hair, even
IN these advanced times, Samson must have
! been frlghtful sight when Deliliah got
! through shearing him. It's no wonder he cot
weak and felt all broke up.
young clerk in Holyoke spent six hours in
a refrigerator the other day, having been i'm
prisoned by mistake, He felt, on coming out,
as though he had just been entertained at
| fashionable church sociabe.
| Special services of prayer and humiliation
| are being held in many of the English dissent
| ing churches, and it seems to be q common
sentiment that the national misfortunes are the
natural consequences of the national SINS
An earnest Methodist WAS hauled over the
Goals by council of brother ministers tcr the
sin of exaggeration. He arose and said: 1.-The
punishment they had judged him was just He
knew his sin. He had shed bar'ls of tears over
it,"
The attorney general of Virginia gives the
political preachers rap ON their ecclesiastical
knuckles, by saying that if he were preacher
and intended to go into politics, he would first
go to the church and surrender his ordination
papers.
| Furnaces were put into the basement of the
Baptist church at Canton, Ohio, not to set fire
to the building; but they did more than was
bargained for them. The blaze attracted
great crowd of neighbors. The insurance men
| say that SIS, 900 will restore things
Last year fifty members of the Romish Or
| der of Christian Brothers were expelled from
Germany by the government, and settled at
Verviers in Belgium: It is now announced
that the Belgian authorities have ordered their
removal and they have gone to France.
1t may be that the man who said he had no
religion to talk about uttered a tremendous
sarcasm against that class of pietists who 20
about telling what vast quantity of religion
they have, and boasting of the beatific state
of perfection to which they have arrived.
Benevolent old lady: TELL your mother.
| William Stubs, that shall call in during the
day, and give hex little spiritual comfort,
W. s.: "She'ull be glad o. that, marm cos she
can't pay the score at the Bull since fayther
died, and amt 'ad no spirits for week.
The following Congregational ministers
in Massachusetts, still retaining pastorates,
were ordained more than fifty years ago: Eras-
| tus Maltby, Taunton, ordained in 1924; Leon
ard Wilmington. Newbury. ordaine in 1916,
and Jacob Ide, West Midway, ordained in
1914.
In the north of England there is Sunday
school whose managers are SO set in their own
ways that they do not allow their ministers to
come in. At recent meeting it was resolved
that the pastor should not enter the school.
| even for visit, except with the consent of
two thirds of the teachers.
Methodism is now represented in Burmah
For many years the Baptists were the only &C.
cupants of this great field. Some time ago the
Methodist Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel joined the Baptists there. The Rev. R.
E. Carter is the Methodist missionary, and has
established himself at Rangoon.
well-dressed little child, lost by some neg
ligent nurse-maid, was the center of a sympa-
| thetic crowd of gentlemen. Questions poured
in upon the child from all sides, but with no
| effect. at last gentleman asked, 'Where
were you going to, my little dear?" ':Nuss,"
blubbered the infant ''sed Use to 90 to
! heben."
| A gentleman who was interceding with
Bishop Bloomfield for clergyman who was
cons family in debt, and who had more than
once been insolvent but who was man of
| talents and eloquence, concluded his eulogies
by saying, "In fact, my lord, he is quite St.
Paul" EYES," said the bishop, dryly, Gin
prisons off, .-
gentleman, prompted by curiosity, lately
went into the empty store of q merchant, and
looking about inquired, "And pray, sir, what
do you sell here?" The shopkeeper, thinking
to be very witty, replied laconically, Asses
heads, sirr' The stranger, turning to 20, add