Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-19
GLOBELETs.

s S0N~'S'S0Ss
tired OF publishing ministerial scamps.
a young clergyman won boat race at Lake
George by practice and not by preaching.
sermons by telephone are announced. Bot
tled-up sermons for family use will soon follow.
Bishop Colenso, who is now sixty-fve years
old,is described as handsome, stately old man.
The Baptists of Ann Arbor, Mich, have de-
clded to build new church at cost of &c.
600.
house for aged and infrm Hebrews is to
be built by the various Jewish orders in New
York.
There are more than ten thousand Italians in
London, and a mission has been opened for
them.
The church of the Messiah of Philadelphia
has extended call to the Rev. ". E, sibles. of
Portland, Me.
ACongregational church in Illinois has re-
fused candidate for its pulpit because of his
use Of tobacco.
The Indiana Unitarian convention and Sun
day school association meet in Dublin, Ind,
September 10.
The population of the Island of Ceylon is
about 25O,OoO, of whom $1,000 belong to the
Church of England.
The Rev. W. G. NJ. Stone, formerly an active
Unlversallst minister, is now keeping book
store in Denver, Col.
Inc 1T. Rev. DR.. Huntington, bishop of CEN
tral New York, has just completed ten years of
Episcopal authority.
The Methodist Episcopal church at Port
Huron, Mich, was damaged to the amount of
$4,000 by recent storm.
The synagogue of B'nai Israel, in Philadel-
phla was sold by the sheriff few days ago to
satisfy mortgage of $500.
Canon ". w. Haw was consecrated bishop of
Bedford assistant to the bishop of London) in
st. Paurs cathedral, July Is.
Iowa will soon be divided into two Roman
Catholic bishoprics, and the new bishop will
be stationed at Council Bluffs.
Prof. Enoch Pond, D. D., Bangor seminary,
has attained his 8Sth birthday, and retains the
full vigor of his mental powers.
Tho Scotch Evangelist, DR.. Somerville, il
laboring among Euglish-speaking people in
Paris, and has his son to assist him.
Inc French Sunday school society has 1,1OO
schools under. its charge, and Sunday schools
are growing in favor all over the continent.
| Mrs. Van Colt, the evangelist. rejects asan
insult on offering of $50 for twelve DAYS
work in a Methodist church in Pouphkeepsie.
| Ii ia never worth while to make rents in
garment for the sake of mending them, nor to
| create doubts to show how cleverly we can quiet
them.
John 5. Cough will prolong his stay in Great
| Britain till October. and will deliver twelve
temperance lectures in England and six in
Scotland.
The Rev. DR.. Alexander Clark, who recently
died left his family in such circumstances
that subscription is being made to raise funds
for them.
| An Episcopal church was consecrated at Sar-
anac lake, in the Adirondacks, July 10th, to BE-
known as the Church of st. Luke, the Beloved
Physician.
+. b. DEMO. of the last graduating class at
Andover, has accepted the professorship of
Greek and Hebrew in the Bangor Theological
Seminary.
The Michigan diocese to which Bishop Harris
was recently elected will increase his salary
$1,000 over that formerly paid the bishop of
| the diocese.
| The Rev. John Reid, a Presbyterian pastor in
Hoboken, N. j., has been asked to resign, be-
cause "he can't draw" Those Jerseyites are
queer people.
| The Catholics of one Of the Swiss communes
are giving the Vatican trouble by re-electing a
/ favorite priest who had been removed from
them, and rejecting the successor who had been
put in his place.
The Ne1p Covenant denounces as an imposter
one W. P. Shockey, who has been addressing
audiences in Kansas, styling himself Univer-
salist preacher.
The bishop Of London has two houses and
$780, 600 year. He will soon be relieved of
one-half of his labors without decrease of
houses or salary.
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their
ears; the effects of precepts Is, therefore, slow
and tedious. while that of examples is sum-
mary and effectual.
The King of Belgium has written letter to
Bishop Crowther, full blooded African, con-
graduating him on the success attending his
labors as missionary in Africa.
i The Rev. Cecil B. Young. who became Ro-
man Catholic, and the Rev. F. @. T. Bosanquet,
VIII became Unitarian year or two ago, have
returned to the Anglican Church.
Petitions in support of the bill for closing
public houses in England and Wales on Sun
days have been very extensively circulated and
signed throughout Great Britain.
The Methodist Church Extension society pro-
poses to build forty new churches this year in
each "f the ten Western Territories. OF course
they will be small and simple churches.
l The colored brother in a Virginia church hit
the nail on the head when he prayed at the close
of the white brothers sermon: Lord, bress de
brudder to whom we has listened to SO patient
ly."
/ rest and coffee room at Smyrna under the
direction of Maria A. West has scriptural texts
and the word welcome written upon it's walls
in all the Eastern languages, and is much fre-
lquented evenings.
Since the LIST of January last the First Pres
byterian Church of Louisville, KY, Rev. DR..
=. 0. Guerrent, pastor has received an acces
sion of 145 members, and in addition the church
has very largely increased.
/ A Christian woman has opened a medical mis-.
sion in Jaffa, and religious services in Arabic
are held three times week in connection with
it. No other agency has ever taken such hold
upon the people of that place.
4 At an Episcopal church in Montrose, Scot
land, few Sundays ago, after morning service
the incumbent gave out ahymn and announced
that as he had forgotten his manuscript there
would be no sermon that forenoon.
Bishop Herzog, Old Catholic. of Switzerland
has administered confirmation to six candi-
7 dates in Father Haycinthe's congregation in
Paris. DR.. Nevin, and another ANGLICAN