Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-20
SUNDAY GLoRELErs.

SUNDAY GLOBELETs,
1t is stated that Anna Dickinson is study-
ing for the Methodist ministry.
new Baptist church in Saline Valley. Kan.
sas, was.lately ruined by wind storm.
The sexton and ushers of Trinity Church.
New York City, are to wear black gowns.
DR.. Duryea's church in Brooklyn is wrestling
with the question, How to provide for debt of
$4,000.
The preachers in st. Louis are going to dis
cuss THE Sabbath and Its Observance" on the
third Sunday in April.
Adam and Eve were the first pedestrians. +
and it was rough day for mankind when
they made their lapse.
There is nothing lower than hypocrisy To
profess friendship and act enmity is sure
proof Of total depravity.
Electricity saved Baptist clergyman in
Waterbury from the assault of goat. He
climed telegraph pole.
The Methodist Book Concern. of CHICAGO.
has sold 10000 copies of the new Methodist
Hymnal since its issue in August last.
Jewett, the famous Temperance orator. is suf
His friends have presented him with purse of
$3.50.
Colonel Robert G. Ingersou makes the bold
statement that he is the only man in the coun-
try who has read the Bible through in the past
year.
Reporter-''Those pigs of yours are in fine
condition Jarvis-"Yes sur, they be- All,
sur, If we wos all on US only fit to die as them
are, we'd dor'
The bishop of Angra, in Portugal, has issued
| pastoral on the lack of candidates for the
prieathood, and expresses fear of clerical
famine in his diocese.
The telephone has been successfully intro
duced into the Breckenridge Street Presbyterian
church at Buffalo, SO that the pastor can adj
dress at once two congregations two miles
| apart.
The membership of Lafayette Avenue Pres
! byterian Church, New York, DR.. Collyer, pas
tor, is said to be the largest of any Presbyte-
| rian Church in the country. 1t numbers
1851.
The Rev. John Lemley, Editor of lions
Watchnaan who was charged with various i'm
| moral practices, has been tried by the Metho-
dist Conference at Albany. and wholly exone-
| rated.
The Rev. G.. R. Pierce, of Oneida, N. Y, has
received very hearty and unanimous call to
the pastorate Of the Evanston, ILL.,, Baptist
Church, with strong probability of its ac-
ceptance.
Last Sunday, in New York City church, an
old gentleman IS years of age was immersed
in the baptistery. As he stepped down into
the water the aged convert paused and made an
address to the congregation.
Well, my son. what did you learn at the
Sunday-school this afternoon?'' asked a fond
parent of his eight-year old son last Sunday
night. DAY beat Al Bassett last night by
three seconds" was the reply.
The Rev. Mr.. Falkner, for more than twelve
years pastor Of the Congregational church of
the Mediator, Brooklyn, has resigned his pas
torate, and purposes entering the ministry of
the Protestant Episcopal church.
Spiritualism has just celebrated it's thirty.
second year in this country, and yet We see no
visible improvement in the literary ability Of
George Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte, and
other well-known communicating spirits.
The Methodist Missionary society have made
arrangements for missionary work in the in
terror of Africa. Mr.. Osgood, who is now in
Africa, will locate mission post somewhere in
the interior, and Miss Mary A. Sharp will soon
leave this country for work there.
l ''The Man Who Prayed in Deep Waters"
'sWhat Satisfies the Soul?'' ''The Bondage of
Fashion," "Christ's Seven Sentences on the
Cross" and Spiritual Food and Drink, How
to Obtain 1t, - were among the topics discussed
in the New York pulpits last Sunday.
The ritualists of Boston have prepared a
new Manual of Prayer for their own use. It
is said that 10, 000.copies of it have been sold.
It is used at the Church of the Advent in that
city. The church proposes to have sermons
preached twice day and confessions twice
week.
Isn't yours perilous life?" asked a lady
of railroad conductor. YES he said, as he
, gently but persistently charged her ten cents
extra for not having purchased ticket ''pre-
vious to entering the carr yes, it is perilous
but, you see, none but the brave deserve the
farer'
The old South Westinghouse, Boston, con-
siders itself in good condition, and has increas-
ing hopes of saving itself in the end. Some
of its spare room has been utilized in a way to
yield an income, and the debt is steadily de-
creasing. Only little more than $117,0 900 re-
mains to be raised.
The Rev. John 3. Lockwood, of the New
/; England Congregational church, Brooklyn, has
received a call to the First Congregations
church of Westfeld, Mass. The society is on
of the Oldest in w stern Massachusetts,, is en-
: tirely free from debt, and has large and influ-
entail membership.
A Methodist minister in Essex county, Massa,
chusetts, promised salary of $4C0. By
f digging clans and making shoes he earned
I 5000 last year, and his flock withheld that
amount from his stipend. And yet some
brethren refuse to believe that there is an!
such thing as total depravity.
o The oft-repeated statement that Gen. Gar
field is an ex-Methodist minister is corrected
by correspondent of the Boston Transcript,
n "Gen Garfield was never ordained clergy.
il man, but was lay preacher in the Disciples
d (Campbellite) church, sect that is quito nu
= merous in the West and South"
e. A clerical wag thus epitomizes the PECULIAR
N ties of the canons of st. Paurs, London, il
,e the matter of sermons: Canon Gregory ca
read his sermons, but can't write them; Cano
Lightfoot can write his sermons, but can
read them; Canon Liddon can do both, an
- Bishop Claughton can do neither.
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