Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-31
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.

Sweden has 27l Baptist churchs, but only 1Op
have places of worship
The weather is enthusiastically warm, and
Christians are summering.
There are over 300 ordained Baptist ministers
IN Georgia who are not pastors.
During the deluge Mr.. Noah was in the habit
OF calling his wife an ark angel.
Ihe Catholic knights of America have sew
enty-three branches and $500 members
TIE Boston Methodist churches have an ar
gregate Indebtedness of about 100000.
The death is announced of VIM. B. Slaughter,
D. D., prominent Methodist clergyman.
The cathedral of Cologne will be completed,
almost beyond all doubt, in the year 1880.
Elder Moses Horn, of Portsmouth, N. H.. has
been in the pastoral harness for sixty-fve
years.
Cardinal Won Schwarzenberg is now the last
OF all the Cardinals created by Pope Gregory
XVI.
Cnarles SpurgeUn son of the famous English
preacher, has been called to Baptist church in
Greenwich, Eng.
The Rev. T. s. Guthrie, of Lafayette, Ind,
has accepted a call to the Universalist church
in Springfield, O.
Mr.. Fry, of Bristol, England, has collected
over one thousand editions of the English BIZ
BILE printed before 100.
The Rev. E. NJ. Richardson, of Memphis has
been elected secretary of education in the
Southern Presbyterian church
The colored Presbyterians of New Orleans
have recently organized society to be known
as the Berean Presbyterian church
Don't worry too much about the affairs of
other people. Bear ye one another's burdens
is too literally obeyed, sometimes.
Juvenile crime is largely increasing in Paris.
On an average five children are arrested every
day, and 25 per cent are convicted. "
The Congregationalists at Colorado Springs,
COL, held services in their new church july
2Oth, after FIVE years of wandering
The Chicago Plymouth. Congregational church,
| CT which the Rev. Charles A. Everest is pastor,
has paid of its entire debt of $50, 900.
Anna Dickinson doesn't mind prayers in her
behalf, but when they extend over fifteen min
utes IN delivery she becomes restless.
wag who had lent minister a horse that
had run away and thrown the clergyman,
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The Rev. DR.. s. S. Harris, Bishop-elect of
Michigan, will be consecrated in st. PauIs
Church, Detroit, on the 18th Of September
Newman Hall has gone to Switzerland to re-
cuperate from the effects of the recent divorce
suit. The most of his congregation will stand
by him.
The vatican has suggest ed another pil-rim-
age to Rome faom all parts of the world and t.
is limited that full purse will be of use in the
Eternal city.
New Jersey village has pastor who rode
horseback all the way from New Orleans to
accept the call. His average speed was thirty
i've miles day.
The funds of the Wesleyan Missionary society
OF England have fallen off so much that it is
feared that it will be compelled to retrench its
great and useful work.
church for the use of English worshipers
has just been opened at the we'll known water
ing place of Marienbad, in Bohemia, bv the
bishop of Bath and Wells. a.
Inc nineteenth meeting of the English
church congress will be held at Swansea. Oc-
tober 7th, and the archbishop of Canterbury
will preach the opening sermon.
The Rev. Mr.. Macrae, of Aberdeen. having
been declared aheretic by the Presbytery of
that town. his church has seeded and followed
him into ecclesiastical retirement.
The Rev. Geo. T. Ladd, of Milwaukee, Wis.
has been appointed by the trustees of the An
dover Theological seminary Southworth lectur
Ell on Congregationalism for the next three
years.
1ha &c
to some women will be, when they get into
their angel-clothes they can't Jaw the dress
maker about the fit and say she kept all the
scraps.
Sunday-school teacher: ''You must recollect
that all am telling you happened one thou
sand eight hundred and seventy-nine wears
ago." Pupil: 'Lor', miss, how the time do
slip awayp'
The A0udnce plumes itself on the fact that
several gentlemen prominently connected with
the Northern Pacific railroad are Congregation
alists, and then adds 'We are not disposed to
make too much" of it. .s,..
Female barbers," says Snodgrass. repeating
a paragraph announcement he had Just read in
the paper, Il don't believe in EN-" s.Wbv
not?' We asked. Because I remem Der what
| trouble Samson got into by lie ting a woman
cut bis hair.
Baptist association has been formed in
Japan, consisting of the American and English
Baptist churches. At the opening meeting the
native preachers did the preaching and q COM
munion service was held, to which sixty new
| converts were admitted.
THE Tabernacle of the Coming Lord is the
name Of a now sect just arisen in Texas. Those
who remember Gen. Sheridan's description of
the country will very much wonder what thew
want with a new religious denomination. The
leading spirit is called Good-Night
The Church of Jesus, in Mexico has a MEM
bership of over three thousand fifty congrega-
tions, orphanages and schools, in which five
hundred children are being eduaated, and
theological seminary. 1t also publishes a
weekly newspaper called the Truth.
Bishop Comboni, of Central Africa, was Of
fered the decoration of the Order of the Crown
of Italy by the Italian government for his serv
ices to the civilization in Nigritia, but he re-
fused it on the ground that it would compro-
mise his conscience as Catholic priest.
| circular will shortly be sent to every min
lister in the United Kingdom, urging him to
preach plainly the gospel and to dwell upon
the fact that ''all have sinned,' and "Christ
came to put away SIM and that s'all should
be healed by Him and lead better life.''
| OF the 515,7S6 members of the Church of
Scotland a large majority, or 297,375, are
women. As women have equal voting power
| with men, the balance of power in the church