Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-19
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.

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An English mission has been established in
Marseilles, France.
Ihe death is announced of the Rev. A. l..
Brookes. of Danville, Ill.
1t is Said that High church sentiments per-
wade the Scottish Episcopal church.
Line death is announced of the Rev. DR.. Null
lens, prominent missionary in Zanzibar.
Only three Methodist churches in New York
and Brooklyn were closed the past summer.
The Rev. DR.. Birmingham, of BROOKLYN. is
preaching at the fremont Temple in Boston.
Japanese law student in London has heen
| received into the Catholic faith at Sandiman's
Chapel.
There are said to be between six and seven
millions Of the Hebrew race to-day in the
world.
About Sl2, 600 have been raised for the Me-
moral Chapel. which is to be erected in honor
| of the late Prince Imperial.
The proofs that Father Hyacinthe is an utter
| failure as reformer of the errors and corrup-
lions eff Catholicism continue to increase.
Although Sunday Schools in Germany only
! GATE from the year 1868, they now number
1'ooo with 10000 teachers and 10000 scholars.
An Anglican bishopric has been formed in
| Bermuda, of which. for the present the bishop
J OF Newfoundland will be episcopal adminis
| TRAITOR.
The Baptist Missionary Union has made an
preparations for the coming year to the amount
! OF $275,OO0, which includes upward CT 1926. 600
| on account of last years debt
The Rev. J. +. Lowering, of Watertown.
| Mass, has renounced Unitarianism and be-
come an Orthodox Congregationalist. Mr..
| Lowering was what is called Charming Uni
| tartan.
| The Basic conference of the Evangelical al
lance adopted strong protest against the
British opium trade in China which is to
be presented to the English secretary of state
! for India.
The Rev. j. FL. Merrill, of Andover, Mass,
| has resigned his passionate, which has continu
ously existed for nearly quarter of a century.
| re has been in the ministerial harness for
Early forty years.
! Inc S5oU,0OO worth of bonds authorized to
be sold for the relief of the Southern Methodist
Publishing House have all been disposed of.
Inc house has done large and profitable busi
ness the past year.
The largest church in the United States is
the First African Baptist church of Richmond.
va. 1t has o,3OO members. On one SUNDAY
Its pastor baptized sos persons, and added
nearly 900 to the church.
The pastor OF one Of the village churches
TOOK a pair OF pantaloons to tailor, the other
day, to have them repaired. Tailor examined
them critically and observed, "Humph, knees
are the best part of 'enl.''
committee of clergyman and laymen. in
Guiding dlssenters, are making an effort to Sc
| cure the means FOR erecting statne to William
Iyndall on the Thames embanknant Is pro-
jected, it will cost about 800, 0co
Thlrty-four years ago the Catholic church at
Martnsburg, Va, was broken into and robhed
OF It's altar ornaments and candlesticks. Last
Monoay the latter We're foEnd BY hunter
buried in the woods near Martiusburr.
Canon Farrar, in his new ''Iife of St, Paul.,
assumes that Paul was married and a. widower
| because the public sentiment demanded of all
Jews to marry. The same style of reasoning
would marry number of crusty old bachelors
we know of.
| Inere are SIX conferences Of Welsh Daptists
In this country, of which that of eastern Penn
sylVanla Is the largest. It contains thirty
churches and two thousand five hundted mem
bers, or about half Of the Welsh Haotists in
tho United States.
The Catholics of Portland. Maine lesrn;no
a few days ago that the Rev. d. M. Bradley. of
the cathedral of the Immaculate Concepton,
was about to visit Europe, presented him with
purse of $l,700 to defray his expenses and
bring him back again to them
During the year the American Bible society
has printed an average OF one thousand copies
a day of its ten cent testament, ana still did
not keep up with its orders. About five hum
dred and fifty copies of its twenty-five cent
bible have been printed daily.
The Reformed churches Of England are dis
turbed because general council of the Amer
lean churches, with whom they have been in
communion, has presumed to elect bishop
over them. A recent synod of the English
churches declares the election null and void
| proclamation recently issued by the king
of Siam declares that hereafter every man
shall be allowed to worship God unmolcsted
and according to the dictates of his own con-
science. This means that converts to Chris
tianity will not be forced to worship spirits or
to work on Sunday.
| The authorities of the Catholic Church in
Mexico have lately given their .arction to the
printing and circulation Of a Spanish transla-
! ton OF the New Testament in that country.
1t is regarded as one of tie most remarkable
| and hopeful things that has occurred in Mex.
leo for many years.
Rev. James Freeman Clarke said year or
| two ago that the coming politicians would be
! the clergy, who of all others would take the
most interest in public affairs. 1t must be
confessed that recent devel, pments do not in
dictate the immed ate .rccess of politicians as
| ministers of the guari.
The Prosestants of Berlin do not make much
of their church. Last year only about 50 per
cent. of the Protestant children born were
baptized, and only rs per cent. of the mar
riages Of Protestant complies were soemnized
by minister. Of the 9,535 Protestauts who
died orly 4,774 we're bnried with religious SER
vices.
Bishop Mackarness, of the synod Of Argyll,
does not approve of the countenance which the
Anglican church has given to the mission of
Pere Hyacinthe. He thinks it an unwarran-
table interference with the Catholic church of
France The French clery are improving, and
there is no more intdelity in Paris than in Ger
many.
The Rev. John P. Lacroix, D. D., professor
of modern languages in Ohio Wesleyan univer-
sity, died recently of paralysis Of the BRAIN
He was native of Ohio, Al yes Old. He en-
tered the Ohio Methodist con / renee in 1850.