Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-02
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.

SUNDAY GLOBELETs.
Georgia is said to pay her preachers better
than any other Southern State.
The times are hard-everybody says so-but
the wages of sin have not been cut down.
The markets are well stocked with edibles of
every description, with very few excep-
tions.
rigid Sunday law is said to make Baltimore
the quletest city in America on the Christian
| Sabbath.
rope Leo believes in cheerfulness, and dep
recates the somber views taken of religious oh
legation by some.
| In Nebraska there are now fortv-two Preshu-
terrain churches; fourteen of them were hpilt
in 1878 and dedicated free of debt.
Inc custom of observing the last Thursday
OF FEBRUARY as day of prayer for colleges WIS
initiated fifty-fve years ago. in 1928
st. Louis Baptist congregation are wo,-
Shipping in Jewish synagogue until the resto.
alton of their church. recently DESTROYED tv
fire.
| Rev. Luclen 81. Adams, after twelve wears Of
missionary labor in Tarsus and Antioch, has
returned to the United States for a visit and
| for rest.
| In the past three months 23I members havs
been added to the Presbyterian churches amony
the colored people, making GOA accessions in
| Six months
| -Four colored students have entered the Prot
estant Episcopal divinity school at West Phila-
delphla, who expect to engage in missionary
work in Africa.
After Mr.. Spurgeon's congregation had sung
the first verse of hymn: recently, he asked
them to sing more rapidly, and added, 'Thie
is not a funeral
Rev. Washington Gilbert, an aged Unitarian
minister, died recently at West Newton, Mass.
lie was a graduate of Williams, and was pastor
Tin Harvard twenty years.
DR.. John Hall says that in England people
are divided into churchmen and dissenters. but
that IN America they night properly be divided
into churchmen and absenters
! The Meth odtst says that physical culture has
been greatly overrated; athletes are mostly
| fools; few dozens of invalids habitually do
| the worlds most important work.
| The Rev. J. McGrath of Battle Creek, Mich.
IS proposed for bishop of the Eastern Prot
estant Episcopal diocese Of that State, in the
place of Bishop McCoskry, resigned.
The Roman Catholics have been steadily
| losing ground IN Holland as to numbers.
though they have been gaining in political.
| mercantile and scientific influence
The Jesuits have sent to the Pope a sort Of
ultimatum pointing out the evils resulting
from their exclusion from the government of
| the b,,tf ha
| The Sunday school assembly which is pro-
posed for next June in the Yosemite Valley is
| to be managed by Dr.. J. II. Vincent and will
be opened on the first Sunday in that month.
The old Roman Catholic church at Irvington-
| on-the-Hudson is to be rafhed off about the
middle of February. About 1000 tickets have
been issued, which are being sold at 81 each.
Methodist minister in Essex county, Mas
sachusetts, was promised salary of $500. By
digging CLANS and making shoes he earned 5000
last year, and his flock withheld that amount
from his stipend.
! His acts made him immortal, and he lives
more than ever, was the way the preacher
said it at the funeral; but the compassion got
| it, His acts made him immoral, and he lies
worse than ever
One OF the younger sons of DR.. Leonard
Bacon is in the second year of successful pas
| torate at Terre Haute, Indiana. he is some
thing of a poet, and has already contributed to
the atlantic Nom'h7y.
For his sermon on the death of Princess Alice.
Dean Stanley took the text, jeremiah Is, 9:
She that hath borne seven languisheth: she
hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down
while it was yet day."
| Pope Leo XIII announces that he has decided
not to suspend the rule which prescribes that
a person cannot be pronounced ''blessed'' I'M
til fifty years after his death, in favor of the
beatifcation of Plus TX.
! An English clergyman has been SO rapid in
conducting the service at his church that the
| wardens have addressed letter to the bishop
complaining that Sunday after Sunday COM
mon decency is shocked
| The Rev. Mr.. McAll, whose missionary work
in Paris has become famous, now has TWENTY
two mission stations in that city, with room
for 5000 people. The services are regularly
kept up and well attended.
The appointment of Cardinal Ferrieri to be
secretary of briefs. to succeed Cardinal Asquini,
! has given great dissatisfaction to the Jesuits.
This is probably the occasion Of the sensational
dispatches of the past week.
Canadian clergyman lately sued young
man whom he had married for his marriage fee.
which he stated at $l5. The jury found for
the defendant, on the ground that the yoath
had received no appreciable value.
In forty-three Methodist churches in Phila-
delphia there are 283 classes, with II, ITS mem
bers. OF this number only 5,2l9 attended
class-meetings last year. This shows how the
Methodist class-meeting is decaying.
In one of Bishop Wiley's addresses on China,
he stated that $1,000 have been raised in one of
! the older districts in that country within
twelve months from converted Chinese, whose
wages amounted to no more than 10 cents
day.
| The Edinburgh Presbytery Of the United
| Presbyterian Church of Scotland has passed
resolution recommending the synod to declare
that marriage with deceased wife's sister
shall no longer be bar to membership in the
| church.