Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-05
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.

Chicago is shocked at the use of pera-
glasses in chuch.
The Free Will Baptists are put down in their
| register for 1879 at Is. 686 members.
Dean Stanley has been preaching in Pres
byterian church near Perth, Scotland.
Duluth has eleven churches, only five Of
which are now used for religious purposes.
Bosten opeus it's Art Museum on Sundays.
Decorous spectators attend in large mum bers
Twenty-one members of the Austrian Par
lament are clerygmen. One is a Jewish rab-
bi.
Thirty-seven Congregational churches have
been formed in Michigan during the past two
and . half years.
Brooklyn pork-packer rejoices in the name
of Eden Figge. Who says that Bible names
are going ont of fashion?
The same man who finds the weather too
warm for church sits under the blazing canvas
OF circus without murmur.
The Rev. John G. Edgar, pastor of the Con-
gregatlonal Church at Hesth, Mass, is one of
the survivors of the Crimean war.
Ihe regular weekly attendance at the twen-
ty-two Protestant missions which are carried
on In Paris is estimated at about 5000.
ihe Rev. Samuel Scovllle, a son-in-law of
henry Ward Beecher, has received call to the
congregational church Of Sanford, Conn.
Bishop Snow denies that he is a charlatan.
he Is the "Expounder of Unfulflled Prophecy
| and Standard-Bearer of the Church of Mount
Zion.''
Many OF the New Hampshire churches are
expressing great dissatisfaction with the rev
law taxing church property on all sums above
$4,000.
dean Stanley says that profanity and de-
bauchery are now almost rare among British
Sc amen as reverence and sobriety were a few
years ago. ...
The Rev. Mr.. Tulloch has resigned the edi-
torial supervision of the Missionary Record of
the Church of Scotland, which he held for
eighteen years. "
The agricultural editor of the Richmond
(Va.) Religious Herald justifes the manufac-
ture of apple brandy and the vocation of the
moonshiners."
Inc year 1850 will complete a semi -millen-
mum of the English Bible, the translation of
the New Testament by Wycklife having been
completed 1880.
Inc Baptist missions in Sweden have swelled
| TO 40 churches. A theological seminary in
stockholm, belonging to the denomination, has
twenty students.
The secretary of the Central Evangelical So
clety OF Paris states that If they had the means
they could found new Protestant church in
France every week.
Mrs. Thomas, a lady Of PHILADELPHIA. aged
eighty, has built church at Kane, Penn. at
cost of $4,000, and presented it to the Pres
byterlan congregation of that place.
A Richmond (Ky.) mountain preacher re-
ported to the conference $500 and twenty
seven pairs OF socks as the sum total of his
years salary for preaching the gospel.
Alex Il. Stephens says he has been a men,
Der in good standing of the Presby terian church
ever since his boyhood days, and trusts in the
atonement OF Christ for its cleansing efficacy
The Russian Holy Synod has appropriated
S37'5o0 to enlarge its Japanese mission. The
ureek 1alth Is making some progress in Japan.
according to the reports of the Greek mission
! aries.
very lnnocently Irish newspaper con-
| cluoes 1t account of an imposing ceremony:
Inc procession was very fine, being nearly
Two miles long, as was also the prayer of the
Rev. Mr. McFsdden.'
The Rev. Mr.. Bell, a Baptist clergyman in
New York State, has been deprived of his pull
pit for cause. And now come his apologists.
and assert that his worst offense was writing
| poem for the local newspaper
While playing the organ in the native Japa-
nese church at Yokohama, Mrs. Maclav. the
wife of the pastor, bowed her head in an apo
plectic fit, after which she was carried out of
the church. She died in a few hours.
| Bis marck says that Before dung anything
in a critical movement ascertain the will of
| Providence" which would indicate that
among his other autocratic privileges, is that
of personal intimacy with the deity.
The Neeo Covenant, in an article on the cues
ton of everlasting punishment. accuses
Bishop Merrill of suppression of the truth,
unworthy of any theologian.' The allegation
hinges on the meaning of sGehenna'
little girl said to her sister, who wanted to
take some cakes which her mother had left on
the table, ''No, Mary, don't take any: for,
though mother didn't count them perhaps
God did, and then there would be trouble. YOU
know"
| pulpit telephone has been put into a
church at North Dana, Mass, so as to connects
| with the sick bed of lady who has been an in
valid for twenty-five years. The first message
| to her was 1.-THE Lord is my Shepherd, shall
| not want
Roman Catholic bishop in England declares
that ''the smallest sum that will suffice for the
| holy see and the central government of the
church is $3.50, 600 year. 1t is said that, all
told about 5000 persons are dependent on the
| holy see.''
The pilgrims to the shrine at Loudres in
France, this year, exceeded thirty-fve hundred;
! more than double the pilgrimage of last year.
| The sick who expected to be cured by the mir
| aculous fountain were attended by several
| ladies of rank.
Since 1870 no less than fourteen Prote stan
churches have been built in the eternal CITY,"
| and Protestant schools and asylums are spring.
| ing up, while Protestant literature is being ex-
| tensively circulated. More schools and churches
| are to be built. -....-
"A philosopher writes to foreign journal
that tooth brushes and soap, reverence for
! women and children, and the fear of God,
self-respect and sweet speech and gentle man
| ners are all items in one and the same slow
stage of human development"
The Lutherans estimate that they will gain
in Nebraska this year no less than Is, 600 COM
municants by Scandinavian immigration into
that State. The immigration into Minnesota
| is also very large. In one month LILO Scandi-
navians passed through st. Paul for the ere