Daily globe., 1879-04-06
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.

perance revival.
A Chinese translation Of the Pentateuch il
about to appear at Yeddo.
The Baptists Of Dover Del, have given their
pastor sp-ing overcoat.
Nebraska has 1876 Baptist churches, about
balf of them self-supportipg.
Baptist ministers are soliciting mission work
in Kansas at $500 per annum.
The Jewish Times computes the number of
Jews all over the world to be 6,50s,0OO.
Men will wrangle for religion-write for it,
fight for it, die for it; any thing but-live for
it.
A woman too often reasons from her heart;
hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her
troubles.
The very best and kindest way in which to
look at the faults of your friends is to shut
your eyes.
Many men claim to be firm in their princi-
pies, when, really, they are only obstinate in
their prejudices.
In 1000 English church yards it is still iu-
possible for dissenting parishoner to be bur-
led by his own minister.
The people of st. Louis are so wicked that
they want to stop the ringing of church bells.
St. Louis is the Gomorrah of the West.
The Holy See has erected Afghanistan into
an apostolic prefecture, and has intrusted it
to the Society of ST. Joseph of the Sacred
Heart.
One of the Chicago rectors of the Reformed
Episcopal church announces that henceforth
Sunday evening sermons will be finished in
twenty minutes.
The Rev. Mr.. Bartlett, of Indianapolis,
preached to his congregation on last Sunday ON
the necessity of cleaning up their back yards az
spring approaches.
convention of clergymen is to be held in
Springfield, Mass, on the 9Th and 7th of May
next, for the consideration of the due obser-
vance of the Sabbath.
The Rev. F. B. Allen a Congregational min
lister of Boston, has entered the Episcopal
church and applied for admission as candi-
date for holy orders.
The door of the Wittenburg church, ON
which Luther nailed his famous thesis, is now
| removed to Berlin, where it is in use at St.
Bar tholomey's church.
The Rev. J. l.. Wyatt, who has lately re-
turned from Tinnevelly, India, reports that
$4,000 Hindoos have joined the Christian
church within the last year.
A company of twenty-five young Japanese
meet weekly in the Chinese Methodist Mission
house, in San Francisco, to study the bible and
to discuss religious questions.
Mr.. Moody claims 1850 converts in Balti-
more. 1t is believed that there are still few
more sinners there but they sin on the sly, and
it is very hard to get 'em solid.
The English Bible and Prayer union, estab-
lished for the consecutive and simultaneous
reading of the Word of God, begins its fourth
year with over 81, 600 members.
The Rev. Jacob Ide D. D., has resigned the
pastorate of the Second Congregational church,
of Midway, Mass, which he has held for sixty
| five years. He is ninety-four.
The Rev. DR.. Duryea, of the Classon Avenue
| church of Brooklyn, has finally decided to 40
cept the call extended to him by the Central
Congregational church Of Boston.
The man who lodges behind his newspaper
who piously hates a hireling ministry and re-
fuses to pay his pew-rent on principle.
| 1t is stated that ''Bunyan's Pilgrims Pro-
gress'' has been dramatized by DR.. Eggleston,
and will shortly be presented in the parlors OF
his church-the Church of Christian Endeayor.
The college of bishops, the book committee,
and the board of missions of the Southern
Methodist church, will hold their annual meet
ings in Nashville, Tenn, in the second week in
May.
The class in geography was on exhibition,
when the question came, "Who discovered the
Sandwich 1slands?'' Every hand was instant
ly raised, followed by a chorus of Joseph
| Cookr'
An Indiana Baptist notes that his State has
1874 towns with 800 to 5000 people, but no
church of his kind. He Travelled ninety miles
on one railroad without passing Baptist
| church.
The Rev. W. T. Bullock, Men tone. England,
Secretary of the Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel, is dead. He was connected with
the society, in the secretary's Office, twenty
eight years.
Mrs. Bishop Simpson and other Methodist
ladies of Philadelphia are actively engaged in
the work of founding All orpharage, and are
| vigorously preparing for grand fair to be
held in its interest.
There are four schools Of theology in or near
Chicago Congregational, Methodist, Presby-
terian and Baptist. Their students annually
hold a social and religious reunion with the
most cordial good fellowship. This year the
Methodisrs entertained the others.
The first church in Chicago to introduce the
telephone and microphone to send the songs
and sermons home to the invalids is Trinity
Methodist church, the Rev. w. F. Crafts, pas
tor, in which a telephone was put up.
The total number of city missionaries in New
York is 266, who make 100000 visits q year.
There are 118 Protestant missions in that city,
where Sunday Schools preaching and other re-
ligious services are regularly carried on.
The Methodist, Christian, Baptist and Pres
byterian pastors of Eaton, o., preached stimuli
taneously on last Sunday morning against Sun
day amusements, the exciting cause being .
1 proposed Sunday excursion to Cincinnati
The German Methodist churches of Chicago
number six, but have only 1000 members
though an average attendance of 1000. And
this is said to be the largest Protestant intlu-
ence among the loo, 900 Germans of that city.
The BARRIERS of Hamilton, Ohio, propose to
close their shops on Sunday, and are petition
ing the council for an ordinance to punish
such refractory members of the profession az
may be tempted to take advantage of the ar
rangement.
| Welch Noncomformists are very indignant at
the action of the recktor Of Perryford in sell
ing property of the Primitive Methodist
chapel by auction to obtain tithes of five shill-
;nos ond coefa which the Methodists had re-