Daily globe., 1879-01-26
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.

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son of Sitting Bull has been converted by
an Ep1scopallan missionary at the Cheyenne
agency.
The Rev. p. S. Henson, Baptist of Philadel-
phla, has been elected president of Lewisbure
university.
Gardner is holding revival meetings in Prov
ldence. We trust that Gardner may sow the
right seed.
Z "A hint to ladies who will wear outside pock-
cts. Have your purses made up too look like
prayer books''
visitors to st. Paurs cathedral, London.
carry opera-glasses, SO as to have good look
at the preacher and the bonnets.
Joseph Cooks New York audiences are in
creaslng. lie holds the attention of all from
beginning to end of his lectures.
IL IS said that Christmas trees, with their at
eehoant festivities, are quite the fashion
among rich Jewish families in England.
Bob says that one of the mistakes of Moses
was IN not browsing around in search of a.
champagne rock before he did his shifting.
The Eramiaer disapproves of reporting
prayers. THE scratches CT a shorthand re-
porter beside the sacred desk take away it's
freedom"
certain minister is said to have agreed to
supply church for year on condition that
NOBODY among the people will speak ill Of him
during the time.
Mr. Moody, criticising the self-conceit of
many reformed drunkards and others, once
saio: You might as we'll be full of rum as
full Of egotism.''
rather than touch another drop of LIQUOR"
salo a Jealous convert at a temperance meeting
at Alton, ILL.,, the other night, II would take
razor and blow out my brains.'
The Rev. Da:id Winters an old and b;oh1n
respected minister, of Columbus, O., made an
ASSIGNMENT last week. He had been speculat-
ing IN grain and lost. Liabilities not known
Ihe ReV. ]. B. Grass. of Wilkesbarre. be-
heves IN dancing. Grass says he doesn't care
stra" now much his congregation dance the
ngnt fantastic toe in the hay-day of their
youth.
Exactly tifty-one Congregational ministers
dlVlded their joys and doubled their sorrows
last year-we mean they doubled their ioys and
divided their SORROWS. In other words thew
married.
Dr. Iyrrell, Anglican Bishop of New South
wales, Is about to resign his See He was con.
secrated In 1847, and has not been away from
Aostralla since. The Rev. Robert Hodeson will
be his successor.
Quite number of Catholic priests through
out the country severely condemn the gambling
resorted to in the Catholic church fairs. and
especially so that in the recent Cathedral fair
in New York city.
AT the recent consistory of the Unitarians of
hungary it was reported that there are 53.114
onltarlans IN Hungary, including Transylva-
MA. Last year l31 persons We're received into
the church and 10 left it.
Il wonder, uncle" said little girl, s'if men
Will ever yet live to be 500 or 1000 years old?"
NO, my child, y responded the old man, ssthat
was tried once and the race grew SO bad that
the world had to be drowned"
William H. Vanderbilt gave his broker. Gen.
A. Osgood, $4,000 for Christmas present.
But thedonation parties still let the gifts to
the dominies consist of dried apples, tides,
chromos, and preserved prunes.
An unfortunate quarrel mars the peace of
the Lutheran church at. Somerset, Ohio, The
party IN possession were attacked last SUNDAY
by the opposing faction, but with the aid of
the city marshal held their ground.
The Rev. G. W. Mosselle, B. D., graduate of
the theological department of Boston univer-
sity, now a missionary of the African M, D.
church in Hayti, is visiting this country to Sc
cure aid in erecting church ,difce.
A pawn-broker in Edinburgh has 2 900 family
bibles in his stock. It is said that the family
bible is generally the first article pawned by
those in need. It may be because it is regarded
as an ornament, and not in daily use.
Rev. James Shaw, of Rochester, in recent
sermon on ihe ''Church of the Future said :
''The day is coming, and coming soon, when
the different denominations will begin to take
down their fences and unswing their gates.''
A country clergyman was a good deal aston
ished one day by the jollity Of the mourners
at the breakfast Of funeral, and was
gravely told in explanation s'Bless YOU. sir
they re not hing-they're only assembling
their grief"
PennsYlvanla church went up in sudden
blaze, not because the flue was detective but
because the stove was left to itself until it be-
came red hot. The sexton has been discharged
but that is small comfort to the trustees of an
uninsured church.
DR.. John Halls people refrained from hang
ing bell in the tower of their church on
fifth avenue and Fifty-ffth street, in New
York, and would not even suffer the clock to
strike, lest the patients in St. Lukes hospital
opposite should be disturbed.
The Ritualistic Order of Corporate Reunion
has been joined by many English Ritualistic
clergymen, and has now appointed bishop in
the person of a clergyman in the diocese of
Rochester, England. Mass in Latin has been
privately celebrated by the ladies of this order
Father Chiniquy, the ex-Cathelic priest, is
lecturing in Australia, with the usual result.
Bathurst IN. s. W. paper says that the op-
position to his proposed visit sis not confined
to the Catholics, but is general with the whole
community, who fear that violence may re-
suit"
The supreme court of the State of Pennsylva-
MIA has just decided that churches holding the
same faith and order, but forming distinct de-
nominations, may unite, if their assemblies SO
agree, and that all rights of property will re-
main unchanged and will pass to the church
formed by the union.
The Rhode Island brother who recently en-
ightened his congregation on ''How John Lost
His Umbrella" now announces sermon on
''The First Prayer Meeting in He'll. Will
mington brothers sermon is, '.Shall We Turn
Our Churches into Oyster Saloons, Fancy Ba-
Ears, Pronouncing Bees and Cheap Theatres?''
A good story is told of a prominent Troy