Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-21
SUNDAY GLOBELErS.

Iramps have generally no religious belief.
oue all lean toward the church of roam.
The hev. DR.. starks, of Lansingburg, N. y,
celeorated his golden wedding Wednesday,
Inc death is announced of Mrs. ST. Martin
the author of Women of the BibIe.'' She WAS
76 years old.
Mr. Seth Green is respectfully requested to
see II the oyster cannot be domest,cated in
| church-fair stews -..... tiki, -
The Rev. George F. Bronson. of Clinton TIL
has accepted a call from the Conversational
church at Odell. Ill.
Inc hev. =. K. Gibson, of Wayland, Mich,
mas abandoned the Congregational Church to
| embrace Universalism. ..
MIR. Hammond, the revivalist, has closed
1our weeks season at Essex Junction, w.,
after having converting rs persons.
Inc lev. J. Baldwin, Methodist preacher
VI raymond, Ia, is temporarily preaching to
'ne Congregationalists Of Kansas City.
The Rev. Sophie Glib, of the Universal;st
church at Sheridan, ILL.,, has tendered he-
resignation, to take place next month.
The top-stone has been placed on the snire
OF Inc Anglican church of Kensington. The
splre cost 100000, and is 27s feet high.
! at Marshall, Mich, the Methodists and Ran.
tls!s nave formed a partnership, the one fur
nishing the church and the other the nreacbe-
Liberal enough-Rev. Stranger pointing to
the Madison avenue garden: what chnrcb ia
that, my lad?'' Newsboy: go as Won please
| Sir. Have paper?"
The Rev. Samuel West, local preacher of
the methodist Episcopal church, died recently
at Olive Branch, o. He celebrated his him.
oreth anniversary Feb. H. 1879.
The Wesleyan Methodist church of Ireland
nus oecloed to raise, for the benefit of edu-
cation and home and foreign missions. $780,
ooo' to be called 1.-THE Thanksgiving Fund
Line hev. Charles Scott gives the followias
STATISTICS OF ministers in Great Britain: Epis
eopal' o'l63; Congregational, 5,246; Presby-
terlan. 4,95l, Methodist, 1869; total, 39,349.
| In Holland there are 1000, 900 rnenbe,s Of
the Reformed church, 10000 Lutherans, 42,0ce
hiehnonl'es, 6,0oO Remonstrants OF Armenians,
4oo Moravians. and $4,000 Separatists, or Old
Reformed.
| 1t Is SAID that not less than twenty Roman
Catholic priests lave applied to Bishop Rein
kens Tor the vacant old Catholic parish of
Constance Germany. Twelve were rejected
on acc cunt of their antecedents.
| 1t is reported that the Rev. Robinson Scott.
u d. IS about to resign the presidency Of the
Methodist college, at Belfast, Ireland. This
co1lege has been greatly helped by contribu-
lions from American Methodists
little girl in Sunday school who had been
pulling her doll to pieces during the week, was
| asked "a s.yUl
OPP Answer: DUST ::And what was Eve
made of?" Answer: ''Sawdust.'
The general state synod of the state church
OF Prussia passed resolutions condemnatorv
or mixed schools and government examination
OF theological candidates. The majority ex-
pressed condennatory views of Falk's policy.
d preaching match is announced to take
place, IN Dairy, Scotland. Two preachers are
| to contend for the favorable verdict of the
citizens on stage erected in the public hail.
Whether both are to preach from the same text
ia not stated.
1t is said that two Presbyterians. two Bap-
lists, two Universalists, and an active Jew. re-
Gently met and conversed on theology without
| quarresing, in Boston. The reason thew did
not quarrelin Boston, was because they were
in New York.
binghampton Sunday-school teacher was
recently serenaded by his class, who sang
Lord, Hear of Showers of Blessings" The
joke OF it was that the wife of the teacher only
the day before presented him with twins. An
propriate song that.
The old believers a sect of Russia, having
been found guilty of putting up a new church
| IN ButksH, have been sentenced to two months
imprisonment, and the church has been con-
fiscated. And this is what the Russian Greek
church calls religious liberty.
| A rich Scotchman at the point of death said
to his pastor: ''Do you think that if I left
1000 to the Presbyterian church nv SOM
w'd be saved?" II can't promise YOU any,
thing" answered the good man, after second
thought, ''but it's worth trying"
| i. The Episcopal Church almanac for next wear
gives the following statistics: Bishops, 81:
priests and deacons 1914; parishes, 1000;
ordination, 1SO; baptisms, 40,296; confirma-
tions, q, $50; commandments, 1922, 71s; Sunday
school scholars, 25s, 1877; contributions, &C.
06S 27226.
| The Samoan islands have been entirely
Christianized. Out of u population of about
10000, some $4,000, or seven-eighths are con-
nected with Christian churches. The London
Missionary society reports 26, 1893: the Wesley
ans 4, 1874; the Roman Catholics 2,852 and the
Mormons 126.
Three members of the organization known
in England the salvation Army have
come to this country and begun to hold ser
vices in Philadelphia. Their meetings are
largely attended, and humorous conversations
are reported. They expect reinforcements
| from Enuland.
The one hundredth anniversary of the Con-
gregational church, in Foxboro, Mass, has Just
been celebrated. The church was formed in
1873, twenty-nine persons singing the covenant.
The church now has two hundred and sixty
five members. Its first regular pastor was in
stalled in 1906. >: II .--.. ....
AS-year old little girl was taught to close
her evening prayer. during the Temporary alb
sence OF her father, with: ''And please watch
over my papa" It sounded very sweet, but
the mothers amazement may be imagined
when the child added: 'And you'd better
keep an eye ON mamma, too"
There are in New Jersey 1,674 Sunday
schools reporting to the State association, with
S.2s7 officers, 21,25S teachers and 1892
scholars. The average attendance of scholars
is 40, 172. Upward of 49, 90 of the scholars
are church members. All but about 800
schools use the International lessons.
1t is said that in 1866 thare were twenty
drinking shops in Kttery, Me-; now there are
none. Then there were about seventy church
members; now there are about 500. The popu-
lation then was about 1900, now it is over