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

Syrian Protestant college at Beirut.
It is asserted that the Catholic churches Of
Baltimore receive an average of $50 colored
converts yearly.
In New Jersey there are It's Baptist churches,
with 1864 members. There were 1,188
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. +. W. Conrad, d. D., of Philadelphia,
editor of the Lutheran Observer, has become
insane out 1t Is hoped he will soon recover.
Dean Blosse, of Llandaf, died recently at
the age of sixty-six. He was educated in
Trinity college, Dublin, becoming dean in 1877.
The baptists of Illinois have forty-one as
soclations 929 churches, of which twenty are
German and Scandinavian, and 68, O74 mem
beers.
The first Young Mems Christian Association
in Germany was organized in 1881. There are
now $50 associations in that country, with
5000 members.
The Church of Jesus, ia Mexico, episcopal, j.
reports 1000 adherents, and $500 commune
cants, with 500 children in schools, and eleven
theological students.
Dr. Enoch Pond, Of Bangor, Me-. Congrega-
tlonalist, though 81 years old. 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
license in theology and for the degree of B. A.
The Bishop of Exeter says the cause of tenn
perance is making way rapidly in England.
lie says that at one time he was the only bishop
on the bench who was total abstainer. but it
| is not so now.
The Mathodist Protestant church, recently
reunited, has A annual conferences, 1900
ltlnerant ministers, and 130. 600 members. The
value of the church property of the denomina
ton is SO, 100000.
A Rome correspondent of a Catholic paner
says the Pope retires to his own room every
night 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.
| By the assistance of the United States consul
IN Laos, the American missionaries have secured
a 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 $11S,433, of which
$34,5lo was received account of the loan
| fund. Its disbursements amounted to about
| $ll3,O0O. There is a decrease of nearly
100000.
The American Home Missionary society
| Congregational received larger contribution
in January than in any previous month in it's
existence. The amount was S41 900, of which
| $l6,6OO was from Massachus ard S26
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
church and belonged to what is known as the
Mercersburg school of theology.
The new dictionary has come into use in the
Episcopal churches in England. Ten years ago
royal commission was appointed to revise the
rubrics. The commission did the work, which
was legalized by parliament. and the use of the
new dictionary is obligatory.
Monseigneur Guibert, archbishop of Paris.
replying to a letter from Pere Hyacinthe, mott
flying him of the opening of reformed
church in Paris writes that he regards his cor
respondent as deranged and dreadful example
of divine chastisement for infidelity.
Father Hyacinthe has opened his church in
Paris in a building formerly a 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.
At the recent session of the Mississippi con-
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
26,60l members and 2,499 probationers.
The bazaar opened by Mr.. Surgeons friends
in London to raise money for memorial to
the pastor of the tabernacle, has been very
successful. The receipts for four days reached
$13,50O, and at the close of the bazaar the
gross receipts were found to amount to 1872, 900.
late decision of the Indiana supreme court
is both interesting and important. 1t has been
ruled that a subscription made on Sunday for
the benefit of the church is not binding, and
cannot be collected by suit at law. This fol-
lows the general rule of the invalidity of con-
tracts made upon the Lords Day.
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-
licity 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
the encyclical of the Pope without the consent
of the government of France, as required by
the .'Organic Articles Of 1901. In pastoral
accompanying the encyclcal he boldly denied
that the State had right to control the pro-
mitigation of Papal documents. 1t is expected
the Republicans will severely arraign him.
The Presbyterian church at Summit, N. j.,
has strange financial history. The church
raised 900 year simply by passing the
plate morning and evening, and without any
envelope system, or pew rent system, sor system
of any kind. 1t seems, furthermore, that
nothing has been said about raising money but
that the matter has been left to the consciences
of the church people.
Another massacre of Christians has taken
place in China in district bearing the name
Of Pou-ngan- tcheou. 1t is the same old story
of opposition of the litterati, the exciting of
the populace by them, the indifference of the
Mandarin, the loss of life, and destruction of
property. Eleven persons We're killed, their
wives carried off, and their houses razed. Two
children were among the victims.
''When travel by RAIL- said an eminent
divine the other day, Il select frst-class car
rage in the middle of the train. enter the
middle compartment of that carriage, and I
take the middle seat in that compartment-in