Daily globe., 1879-03-23
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.

ooA u ApIu.
A minister in the course of sermon upon
angels alluded to them as ''an extinct race
Matthew, Markp said the old gentleman;
Luke, John, to your Acts" added the
mother.
Canon Ryle, of the Church of England, says
that the evangelical party was never so full of
life and vigor now.
Ihe First Presbyterian church of Whining
ton' N. g.. is now out of debt. It had owed
somewhat over $4,000.
The Saturday Reyieeo says that John Henry
Newman has long been regarded at Rome az
''only half Catholic
The heV. W.. L. Whitmarsh, a Baptist divine
OF Ohio, has abandoned that denomination to
join the Episcopalians.
Bishop Fallows, of the Reformed Episconal
| church, has refused to the seeding Bishop
Gregg letter dismissory.
The Greek archbishop of Adrianople has
been assaulted by some Bulgarians, though
not killed, as at first reported.
Half century ago the Fiji Islanders were
nation of cannibals. Now most of them have
! family prayers with great regularity.
| The Rev. James Lavelle, late of the Protest.
ant Episcopal church. has taken charge of st..
fauis reformed Episcopal church. Digby,
N. s.
The degree of doctor of divinity has been
conferred by the trustees of Princeton college
on the Rev. R. Bower, professor of theology in
Lincoln university.
| The Rev. S. j. French has resigned the REQ
torship of Trinity church. Michigan city, and
the Rev. q. j. Wood, of the diocese of New
York, succeeds him.
| The hrSt collection of Peters pence ever
made publicly in the churches Of Rome. Italv.
was taken up on the first Sabbath in February.
by order of the Pope.
! When $4,000 clergyman is offered $1,000
pastorate it is styled "cal," whereas. in
point of fact, it is not :.call," but :raise.'
and he generally ''sees it,
The annual conference of the Latter D.v
Saints, who claim to be the true followers Of
Joseph Smith, will be held at Plano. Kendall
county. ILL.,, comm encirg April 6.
The Roman Catholic bishop of Louisville.
hy., has prohibited religious services over the
dead in houses churches They must here
after be performed at the cemeteries.
bill has passed the Connecticut assembly
taxing all property of educational, religious,
and benevolent organizations not actually in
use for the purposes Of such organizations
little boy, aged 6 years. whose father makes
practice of going fishing Sunday, was asked
by his teacher what God did on the seventh
day. He went fishing, guess was the re-
ply.
The war in South Africa has had disastrous
effects on the missions to the Zulus. Many of
the natives have been driven from their homes,
and some of the missionaries have been cleaned
| out.
The Baptist church at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
has just received thirteen new converts, one of
whom is native of Africa and another na-
| tive of Asia, while the rest are Of American
!! birth.
The Rev. John Jumper is the happy recipient
of an ''album quilt of the ninety and nine
pattern" made by the ladies of the mite So
ciety of the Baptist church of Moorestown.
N. J.
| The Wesleyan missionary society has made
great preparations for its forthcoming ami
versary, which will be in London on the 29th
of April. The Rev. Theodore Monod and
Others will speak.
The pastor of the Baptist church at Dover,
Del, is rejoicing in the freeing of his church
from debt, in the baptism of six new converts
and i'll the receipt Of nice overcoat as a pres
ent from his people.
The Bedford Congregational church, Brook
lyn, swallows the Church of the Covenant, pays
! it's debt, and goes on its way rejoicing. The
Rev. Hugh Smith Carpenter, who was formerly
a Presbyterian, is its pastor
man passing through gateway in the dark
ran against post. II wish that post was in the
lower regionsr' was his angry remark. Better
wish it somewhere else,' said bystander.
''You might run against it again.
| Rev. W. I. Burlington, who has been obliged
by ill health t" resign the pastorate of the
Clinton avenue church. Brooklyn, N. Y, and
| will retain his connection with the church as
pastor emeritus, will receive salary of 81, 500.
| There was a tide in the affairs Of Noah taken
at the food, which did not lead on to glorious
| fortunes, though the patri-ark managed to
I keep his head above water, and 1.-The only
! complete collection of wild and trained ami
mails il the worlc."
The Rev. Dr. Wilson, prominent member of
the English missionary conference, says that
only one of every three persons on earth has
ever heard the name of Jesus. The question
is pertinently asked, What becomes Of the other
two who have never heard his name?
After much delay the Rev. DR.. Duryea, of
Brooklyn, announces his decision to leave the
Presbyterian field of labor which he has been
cultivating for eleven years, and goes to Boston
to be Congregationalist. This is the third
denominational change which the doctor has
made.
Although good old Josiah Await was rs
years of age and almost deaf, his place in the
| Mount Pleasant Baptist church was never va
cant until the other day. when he died He
read the new testament through month,
besides reading with great diligence his relig-
ious paper.
'Where do you expect to go when you die,
young man." said minister sternly to an un-
godly scoffer. II expect was the reply, "to
the grave, but the chances are that I'll pull up
in some blamed medical college or other" The
preacher retired to write sermon on the flip
pancy of the times.
The apparation of the Virgi lin at Mettenbuch,
in Bavaria, has been pronounced fraud by
Bishop Senestry. Great excitement was caused
by the report of the apparation, and many
we're aston1shed at the reception of a pastoral
letter denying that there was any supernatural
element IN the pretended miracle.
Dean Stanley makes no gestures when preach
ing, and stands quite still. The story goes
that one Sunday, after returning from church,
he asked his wife why the people looked so in
tently at him during the service. She replied: