Daily globe., 1879-06-22
SUNDAY GLoBELErs.

1t was the whale that brought him up.
The Welsh Calvinistic Methodists are in
creaslng very rapidly in England and Wales.
The receipts OF the British and Foreign Bible
society from all sources were last year Sl,Ol5,-
900.
Maine clergyman refused to marry a couple
because the gentleman refused to paw his pew
rent.
The Rev. George Boutwell, has accented
call to the Congregational church of Salisbury.
N. II.
Spurgeon has completed his pastoral quarter
century. His people presented him with over
$4,000.
The Moravins in the United States have
8,5l6 Sunday school scholars with 9se officers
and teachers.
Mgr. Andre de la Vile, French prelate at
tached to the vatican, has joined the Italian
Methodist church.
Rev. Mr.. Hornebrooke has been called to the
Charming Unitarian Church at Newton, Mass.
at salary Of $1,000.
The entire outlay of the Christians of the
United States upon foreign missions does not
exceed $2,0OO,0OO annually.
The English Presbyterian church has 16 mis-
slonarles IN China, 81 native evangelists, 80
students, and 2,117 members
The Rev. c. II. Frazer, Of Kelleys Island,
has made himself disliked because of making
use of fraudulent credentials
No successor to the Akhoond of Swat has vet
appeared to claim the spiritual power, though
one Fakir Sahib dreams of securing the tenn
poral.
The Protestant Episcopal church does not
hold that any good can accrue to the dead bv
any prayers that we may offer up in their be-
half.
During the last nine years S447, ,S62 so have
| been contributed by the Women's Foreign Mis-
sionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
| Rhode Island has sixty Baptist churches
| with a membership of 1896 Last winter an
addition of 1,017 by baptism was made to
these churches.
| Subscriptions of $87, 1000 have been received
for the further endowment of the Harvard di
vinity school, Mrs. Thomas Tileston, of New
York, giving $4,000.
| The pope is said to have given the duchess of
Madrid hopes that her grandaunt, Nine. Eliza
beth, Louis XVI.'s sister, who was gullotined
May 10, 1894, may be beatifed.
Though the English Presbyterians have less
than three hundred congregations, they raise
large contributions. Last year 256 churches
contributed total of sl.143, 635, an average of
S4, 374 to each congregation
The sermon ought to be in one respect like
Sam Wellers love letter. His father asked
him why he brought that document to such a
sudden and unexpected conclusion. 'sCos, to
make her wish there vos mo1e''
The Presbyterian Church South spends over
81 100000 yearly in maintaining itself and its
work in this country. The Presbyterian
Church North expends ovCr $8,OO0,OOO annu-
ally upon its churches and work in the United
States.
The Rev. s. W. Geissenhoiner, of New York,
who died a few days ago, was Lutheran min
lister for sixty-two years. His ancestors fo,
seven generations were clergymen, the sacred
Office descending regularly from father to ED
est son.
The Episcopal diocese of Illinois held it,
forty-second annual convention in its csathe
dral at Chicago last week. This embraces onl,
the northern part of the State. The clerica
; delegates numbered thirty-two, and layme1
twenty-three.
free thinker and a Methodist clergyman
have been arguing the truth of Christianity al
Port Jervis. The discussion was held at
public hall, and was attended mainly by free
| Tx
was converted to either side.
Messrs. R. L. & A. Stuart, OF New YorI
city, recently gave $25.0O0 to the Home Mis-
sion Board; $25,000 to the Foreign Mission
Board; $25, 900 to the Board of Church Free
tion, and $4,000 to the Board of Ministeria
Relief of the Presbyterian church.
The Cumberland Presbyterian general as
sembly at Memphis, Tenn, is attended b!
about 1875 delegates. The Rev. J. s. Grider i
, moderator. The financial report shows tha
4: the receipts for missions last year were $40,
674. The next session is to be held in EYans
= vile, Ind.
e George Hoover, of Millville, Ind, married
T second wife within six months after the dealt
of his first. The Dunkard church, in whicl
= he was an elder, deemed his precipitancy Sc
e rious offense, and expelled him. The punish
ment had so great an effect on him that he ha
y become insane.
( An absent-minded man In Monroe Conn
r went to church the other morning with hi
: overcoat, as he supposed, on his arm; but tn
laughing of the people in church directed hi
attention to the fact that he had taken hi
everyday pantaloons, and that the suspender
. attached to them were dangling about his legs
1t would seem that there is a high church ant
low church party even among the Friends
for they are beginning to discuss proposition
. for the organization of national yearly meet
!, ing-a body that should be to the rest of thel
yearly meetings something what the Nationa
g council is intended to be to the Congregation
alists.
The Methodist general conference next yea
o will have to settle whether bishops shall b
+ elected in place of those who have died sine
1872 when the last election was had. Sine
: then, when eight bishops were chosen, Bishop
; Morris, James and Ames have passed away
leaving only ten to do the episcopal work of
large church.
q In fifty years the number of native Chris
: tians connected with the missions Of Europea
and American societies have increased fron
;. forty Thousand in 1926 to fv
q hundred Thousand in 1875. AM
this, with good reason, is claimed to b
I an under estimate. At time has the wcr
been more prosperous than at present.
At the beginning of this century the Turks
government allowed only 300 Jews to live with
: in the city of Jerusalem. Within the last te
!: years all restrictions have been removed, an
l now there are $4,000 inhabiting thei
ancient canitaI They have bought up the oil