Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-23
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.

/ Ten students from Cyprus have entered the
Syrian Protestant college at Beirut.
4 It is asserted that the Catholic churches of
Baltimore receive an average of $50 colorea
converts yearly.
In New Jersey there are ITS Baptist churches,
with 1864 members. There were l,l8S
baptisms last year.
The Baptists of London gained 1856 mem
bers IN 1878, having now 36,776 They have
100000 children in their Sunday schools.
Rev. f. W. Conrad, D. D., of Philadelphia.
editor of the Lutheran Observer, has become
insane, but 1T is hoped he will soon recover.
| Dean Blosse, of LANDAU, died recently at
the age of lsixty-six. He was educated in
Trinity college, Dublin, becoming dean in 1877.
7 The baptists of Illinois have forty-one as
sociations, 929 churches, of which twenty are
German and Scandinavian, and 6S O74 mem
lbers. s,steia biz, 5t9 a9
The first Young Mems Christian Association
IN Germany was organized in 1881. There are
now $50 associations in that country, with
| 6, 900 members. E.
| The Church of Jesus, in Mexico, episcopal
reports 1000 adherents, and $500 commune
cants with 500 children in schools, and eleven
theological students.
Dr. Enoch Pond, of Bangor, Me-. Congrega-
tionalist, though 81 years DID, still writes ser
mons and essays. He. has been an ordained
minister sixty -four years.
/ Five African students in the Fanrah Raw
College, South Africa, have successfully passed
the examination for the Durham University
4 license in theology and for the degree Of B. A.
! Inc bishop, OF Exeter says the cause of tenn
| perance is making way rapidly in England
He says that at one time he was the only bishop
on the bench who was a total abstainer. bnt IA
is not SO now.
| The Methodist Protestant church. recently
reunited, has A. annual conferences. 900
ltlnerant ministers, and 130, 900 members. The
value OF the church property of the denomina-
ton is So, 100000.
! "A Rome correspondent of a Catholic paper
says the Pope retires to his own room every
might at 10 o'clock. He rises at $50 in the
morning, says mass. and proceeds to the duties
OF the day.! He sleeps we'll. 81
| by the assistance of the United States consul
! IN Laos, the American missionaries have secured
proclamation from the king of Siam granting
full religious liberty in North Laos, and recog-
nizing the Christian Sabbath
The Methodist Board of church extension
received the past year S11S4 of which
So4'oIo was received on account of the loan
1und. Its disbursements amounted to about
$ll3,00 There is a decrease of nearly
100000.
1 The American Home Missionary society
! Congregational received larger contribution
IN January than in any previous month in it's
existence. The amount was, S41 600, of which
/ $l6,6O0 was from Massachusetts. and 80. 612
from New York.
! There is considerable stir among the Protest.
ants of Baltimore over the secession of Rev.
DR.. Cans to the Roman Catholic church. DR..
Cans was a minister of the Reformed German
l'church and belonged to what is known as the
Mercersbarg school of theology
1 The new dictionary has come into use in the
Episcopal churches in England Ten years ago
royal commission was appointed to revise the
I rubrics. The commission did the work. which
1 was legalized by parliament, and the use of the
new dictionary is now obligatory.
Monseigneur Guibert, archbishop of Paris.
replying to a letter from Pere Hyacinthe, mott
1 tying him of the opening of reformed
church IN Paris, writes that he regards his cor
respondent as deranged and dreadful exam pie
Y of divine chastisement for infdeGty.
Z Father Hyacinthe has opened his church in
Paris in building formerly theater. He
expected the presence and assistance of the
Bishop of Moray (Scotland) and two other
Protestant bishops at the dedication, but cir
cumstances prevented their attendance.
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\ At the recent session Of the Mississippi con-
i ference of the Northern Methodist church, the
bishop presiding and Ex-United States Senator
Revels (colored) were invited to fill pulpits of
the Southern church. The conference has
26,6Ol members and 2,499 probationers.
/ The bazaar opened by Mr.. Spurgeon's friends
in London to raise money for memorial to
! the pastor of the tabernacle has been very
successful. The receipts for four days reached
SIS, 500, and at the close of the bazaar the
gross receipts were found to amount to $32, 900.
A late decision of the Indiana supreme court
is both interesting and important. 1t has been
ruled that subscription made oh Sunday for
the benefit of the church is not binding, and
cannot be collected by a suit at law. This fol-
lows the general rule of the invalidity of con-
tracts made upon the Lords Day. f..
4 Bishop Herzog, of Switzerland, has written
q letter to Father Hyacinthe approving his
mission in France offering to afford him all
the help that he can, and affirming the catho-
Lefty of the Anglo-American church. He says
that he would be willing personally to partake
of communion in the Anglican church.
Mgr. Freppal bishop of Anglers, promulgated
4 the encyclical of the Pope without the consent
| of the government of France as reonirad h,,
the "Organic Articles" OF 1901 In pastoral
accompanying the encyclical he boldly denied
that the State had right to control the pro-
mitigation Of Papal documents It is expected
the Republicans will severely arragn him.
The Presby terian church at Summit N. j.,
has strange financial history. The church
raised $4,000 year simply by passing the
| plate morning and evening, and without any
envelope system, or pew rent system, or system
of any kind. It seems, furthermore that
nothing has been said about raising money, but
that the matter has been left to the consciences
5of the church people. .t& ~ 2s'
| Another massacre Of Christians has taken
place in China in district bearing the name
Of Pou-ngan-tcheou. It is the same old story
of opposition of the litterati, the exciting of
| the popnlace by them, the indifference OF the
Mandarin, the loss Of life, and destruction of
property. Eleven. persons were killed, their
Iwives carried off, and their houses RACED Two
children were among the victims.
when I travel. by rail- said an eminent
Edivine, the other day.. select frst-class car
rage in the middle Of the train. I enter the
middle compartment of that carriage, and
| take the middle seat in that compartment-;n