Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-20
SUNDAY GLOBLETs.

The death is announced of the Rev. q. Y.
Fry, Of Ruggles, Ohio, aged 81.
The Rev. 81. A. Shorey, of Dorchester, will
hereafter preach in the Boston Music Hall.
The Rev. DR.. Bullions has severed his connec-.
ton with the Congregational church at Sharon,
Conn.
An old colored lady Yves baptized by Bap-
fist minister in Mobile recently, whose age is
said to be 112.
The Rev. A. B. Tinker, of Auburn, Mass,
has accepted call to the Eliot Congregational
church, Newton, Mass.
The widow Of Bishop Cummins has present
ed her husbands entire theological library to
the Reformed Episcopal church.
There are two classes of heather in this
country who never pronounce the consonant
=" namely, the Chinese and the Bostonese.
The Unitarians have permanent commission
OF ladies at Boston, to examine all books in
tended for use in their Sunday-school libraries.
Centre College, KY, has conferred the de-
gree Of Doctor of Divinity upon the Rev. John
Armstrong, President of Parsons College,
Iowa.
There are two hundred and four churches
within the city limits of Baltimore, seventeen
of which are maintained by the colored popu
lation.
Canon Liddon thinks there is hope of the re-
union OF CAristendom through the surrender
by the church of Rome of some of its untena-
BILE positions.
The Canada Presbyterian church last wear
declared that ministers without pastoral work
have not the right to sit and vote in their re-.
spective presbyteries.
The Rev. DR.. E. P. Humphrey, PRESBYTERIAN.
has resigned his PASTORAL charge in Louisville,
KY, where he has preached continuously for
thirteen years With marked success,
Mr. Waite used to be a circus clown Since
his conversion he has been a lively evangelist.
He has put up in Portsmouth, New Ham pshire
a gospel tent, which holds two thousand people
Seven OF the chief missionary and Bible So
cleties received this year a total income of a.
49,, $685. which, notwithstanding the hard times
is an increase of $685. over the receipts of
the same societies in 1869.
AS the workmen were demolishing house
at Perth Amboy, built in 1854, they found an
old Danish Bible that had been printed in 1864
IN the mason work half of the volume was
IN good state OF preservation.
The first real Indian Pundit who has ever.
dared to break the rules of caste and incur the
odlum and certain accommodation from his
fraternity on his return to India has been adj
mltted student of Oxford university.
There was a case not very long time since
where 1t became necessary to draw cork, and
the only one present Of a large party having
pocket corkscrew was clergyman. He re-
marked that he used it to open lnk-bottles
The children of colored Sunday school in
this city, when asked what Nehemiah reproyed
the people for doing, showed that they under
| stood the case by their smart reply s'For a.
huckstering fruit an veg tables on Sunday
In the Jewish quarter of MILAN, Morocco.
more than two hundred respectable Hebrew
families are dying of starvation. They are
without work-too proud to beg, too honest to.
| steal. The victims are in a most pitiable con-
dition.
Brooklyn Methodists who favor the removal
| OF the limitations of the itinerancy SO as to
permit permanent pastorates, have organized a
society with that object in view. John Trus-
low, Esq, is president. It is composed only of
| laymen.
The Rev. DR.. Phillips Brooks says that almost
any company of clergymen gathered together
and talking freely to each other will express
opinions which would greatly surprise the con-
gregations who ordinarily listened to those
minis tiers.
Bishop Edmund de Schweinitz, of Bethle-
hem, was elected president of the Moravian
Synod lately in session at Herrnhut Saxony.
This is the first time an American has been
chosen president of this venerable and distin-
| guished body.
| Some wicked man asserts that it was great
| mistake that potato-bugs weren't introduced
| into the Garden of Eden, since their presence
| there would have kept Adam and Eve SO busy
that they wouldn't have had time to 90 around
foraging for pippins,
The Third Presbyterian church of Pitts
burg, Rev. DIR. Thompson's, has just lifted
debt of $4,000, and has added fifty new mem.
bers within the past six months, and has con-
tributed over 50, 900 to benevolent causes in the
same period of time.
While the Baptists more strenuously than
ever proclaim that immersion is the only way
OF baptism, the Lutherans of Central Illinois,
IN synod assembled, have instructed their min
listers not to baptize a candidate under, any cir
cumstances by immersion.
A fine illustration of the patience of hope
and the labor of love is found in the Church
Missionary Society Of England, which labored
without responding eighty years without
single convert, but it now reports 80, 900 COM
municants and 100000 adherents in pagan
lands
The colored Baptists of Alabama have for
the last year sustained a theological and normal
school at Selma, with FIVE teachers and 252
! Students without mourning any debt, and
having paid 81 900, besides what they had pre-
viously paid, on the purchase of grounds and
buildings.
The Michigan avenue Baptist church, Of
Chicago, is said to have the largest debt, in
proportion to its membership, of any church in
the country. The debt is $l,575 for each fami-
~ of the congregation. People must feel proud
who can go to church which is encountered in
that fashion.
II hear whisper" said the minister. He
was soaring little in his sermon, imagining
an angel to be lowering near and speaking.
The deacon was just drowsy enough to be
startled by the remark, and to reply hastily:
= guess it's the boys in the gallery Moral:
Don't soar, and don't browse.
In the late contest on the subject of in
strumental music in the worship of God in the
Irish General Assembly,, large majority of
the ministers were in favor of the introduction
Of organs and other instruments of music into
the chu riches, but the elders voted steadily and
N overwhelming numbers against it.