Daily globe., 1879-06-01
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.


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There are $4,000 Sunday school children in
Syria. I'D
There are 800 or more Sunday schools in New
York city. s. gs4fsi
Ruth was good girl, and she had al fine Boaz
as could be found in these days.
The Methodist Holiness people will hold six
national camp-meetings this year.
The one hundredth Presbyterian church in
Nebraska has recently been organized
Just s62, ,5S6 is the amount the Presbyterian
board of foreign missions is behindhand.
There are $50 churches in Philadelphia, and
yet the average killing is one woman in three
days.
Profane swearing in the village of Hamilton
is assessed at the rate Of from S5 to $40
swear.
The income OF the parish church of the
of the church of England at Shipton is only
$15 year.
DR.. McCabe was enthroped Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Dublin on the Sd inst. The ce-
| remonies very impressive.
| Under the viii of Mrs. Catharine Wi lliams
| $13, ,000 is bequeathed to the franklin avenue
Presbyterian church, Brooklyn.
/ 4 ID & Fl . y f.
OF the 500 hymns most used at the present
day, more than 100 bear the name of Watts. y
That Watts the matter with the hymns.
| The Baltimore papers report quiet but very
general revival of religion in that city, which
is largely credited to the labors of Mr.. Moody.
| The First Congregational Church at Lemp-
ster, N. a., having been without a pastor for
| one year, is earnestly desirous of securing
| one
Ararat must have been good show town.
Noah. with his animals, jumped every other
place forty days to make it for a one-night
stand.
People in Germany are much opposed in
many places to Christian work, and are es-
i pecially averse to the institution Of Sunday
schools
! The recent gift of s1s6, GOO to the Rochester
Theological Seminary has been increased by
donations from perso.:s in New York City to
s150,0OO.
. The Rev. s. d. Burchard, D. D., recently re-
rigned his connection with the Thirteenth
Street Presbyterian Church, after pastorate
of forty years
II 4 funeral procession in a Massachusetts town
was halted on its way to cemetery while the
body taken into photographers gallery
, and photographed.
: The footprints of a bar barian in the sand
prove the presence of a man to that same
atheist who denies the existence of a God of
l i whose hand the whole universe bears the i'm
2 press.
The Brooklyn Sunday school teachers insti-
' tute has closed its sessions for the warm
weather, and the chief teacher has been pre-
sented with a silver dish for his meritorious
o services.
j Bishop Bowman, who has been round the
d world in visitation of Methodist missions, has
arrived home from Europe. While he was in
q Italy he received news of the death of his wife
q q at st. Louis.
- Father Hyacinthe's services in Paris are we'll
attended, and he has secured the assistance of
o a young French priest who is helping to pre-
Il pare large class of young people for their first
rs communion.
The total number of persons in holy orders
8, in the Russian empire is about 100, 900. There
= are 420 cathedrals, 38,302 churches and Il, ,408
% chapels. OF late years 423 churches have been
q built every year.
The average Sunday attendance at church
b in Buffalo is 72,490. Of this number 5000
d are Catholics, 19,250 Lutharans, S,610 Metho-
al dists, 7,115 Presbyterians, 4,S65 Episcopalians
90 and $50 Baptists.
y, At the conservation Of DR.. Lightfoot as
Bishop of Durham, Canon Westcott preached
. the sermon, and the Archbishop of York and
the Bishops of London and Ely conducted the
ri conservation ceremonies.
a. A memorial service was held in the ole
+ Bromfeld street church, Boston, on the l5tl
IN inst, to commemorate the life and services o1
D the late Bishop Ames, of Baltimore, who wa.
- ordained in it. Bishop Haven delivered tht
W address.
female member of high church choil
ia tried to ''shoo hen over a high stone wall ir
e. North Wheeling, short tipe since, and The
Sc people for four blocks around turned out
lg thinking that a circus steam calliope was ou
s. on parade.
y st. Pauls Church, Selma Ala, is composed
. of about five hundred persons, Of whom two
hundred communicates. The church il
~ ~ now without minister but efforts are on foot
4 to secure one. Services are held regularly BY
to General John 81. Forney.
m The Rev. E. Walters who for some years
y, has been pastor of the Fishergate england
w Baptist chapel, has announced his intention t,
III secede from that denomination purely con
s- scientioEs grounds. He was very much liket
" =, by his congregation, and his decision is yer,
:. much regretted.
The Rev. Nathaniel Howe, of Hopkinton, op
posed the building of new church. One ho
- Sunday afternoon the people were contentedly
doing under the sermon, when Mr.. Howe, from
II. the high pulpit beneath the old-fashionet
es sounding board, suddenly thundered out
mt 6 There is no need of church; the sleep
y, ers are all sound in the old one
- "Who's your pastor, my dear ~ asked goot
,s- old lady from the country, addressing he
ial daughter, who has been living in the city fo
~. half year or so. "Really, mother hardl
81. know. I never saw him. He was away on
NJ vacation last summer and now he has starte
on his .lecturing tour for the winter. may ge
VI. acquainted with him next spring.
ed .f3l
leo to The Christian Union that the Rev. w. a. B
Murray has gone to Connecticut to engage j
)th the manufacture of improved back boards,
G. and his .church Of the future" has dissolve
~, into thin ARA soap bubble, as brief it wa
=. brilliant. Mr.. Murray could not raise 5000, 90
lge for hi church of the future, but he coul
easily raise $3.50, 900 for back boards.
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Ith Ihe ReV. James Eeils' ", ", OF Caiitosnl'
nd who was moderator of the Presbyterian Generi
~, Assembly in 1877, has been elected to the cha
of sacred rhetoric and pastoral theology
ap- Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati, Il
tes chair left vacant by the death of DR.. Hen,