Daily globe., 1879-02-09
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.

SUNDAY GLOBELETS.
There are two Congregational churches in a.
Petersburg, Russia.
California has eighty Congregational churches
with 4, AIS members.
The Southern Methodists added about 50 ono
to their membership in 1875
large Sunday school ia held in Amsterdam
IN brewery and vinegar factory.
More than $27O,OOO was raised in Great
Britain for the relief of the famine sufferers IN
China.
DR.. Barring, who has just resigned the See Of
Durham has received sympathetic addyess
from bis cathedral. He is now 70 years old.
Rev. Lucien II. Adams, after twelve Years of
missionary labor in Tarsus and Antioch, has
returned to the United States for visit and
for rest.
The venerable George Lovick Pierce, the
Oldest minister of the Southern Methodist
church, has become very feeble. He is now in
his 93d year.
The Roman Catholics have been steadily los
ing ground in Holland as to numbers though
they have been gaining in political, mercantile
and scientific influence
The vestry of Monumental Episcopal church,
Richmond, Va, has decided to put in memo
rial window for Bishop Moore, who was the Sec
ond bishop of the diocese.
There are in the Rochester Theological Sem
mary (Baptist) seven professorships and sew
enty-one students, of whom twenty-three are
in the German department..
Rev William M.clx n n &c ~. So,4La--
Presbyterian church, died recently in Colum-
bla, 5. g., at an advanced age. He was we'll
known in South Carolina and Tennessee
The Baptists have in New Hampshire eighty
SIX churches, with 9,210 members, and 3S2 per-
sons are reported as baptized within the year.
Ihe net gain for the year appears to be 26l.
The Memphis synod of the Southern Pre.by-
terian church has rejected an overture asking
for the formation of colored presbytery, on
the ground that at present it is not expedient.
In the ten years ending in 1871, the Roman
Catholics Of New South Wales, Australia, in
creased from 99,l93 to 1852, being larger
percentage than any other denomination could
exhibit.
Chaplain McCabe, who is a devout and earn
est Methodist, says that many of the ''star''
preachers of his church rant and roar too much
He advises his brethren; 'Do not mistake thun-
der for lightning.'
The nuns Of the Ursul,ne Convent burned
near Columbus, S. c., as alleged, by Federal
forces, are getting everybody in the State to
sign petition to Congress for an appropriation
of 500, 600 to reimburse them.
At the Invitation of bishops of the American
Episcopal church. Rev. ". ]. Knox Little,
rector of ST. Albans, Cheetwood, has left Eng
land to take part in mission services in several
cities of Canada and the United States.
The Rev. DR.. s. I. Prime relates of DR.. Cum
mings, the former pastor of st. Stephens Ro-
man Catholic church, in New York city, that
one day as he near his end, in parting with
friend who had called to see him he said:
Come to the funeral, the music will be
splendid
The rage for selecting funny titles for SER
mons has extended all the way to the usually
quiet town of Salem, N. J. Methodist cler-
gyman of that place disturbs the habitually
unruf1ed calm which pervades the place by an
nouncing that he will preach on s'The Devils
Hog Killing Time.
thorough-going inidel, who had no religious
belief whatever, and was glad that he hadn't
any, was recently stricken with paralysis at his
house few miles west OF Utica. When he re-
covered consciousness and powers of speech,
his hrst request was that some one would read
him chapter of the bible.
One of the most notable churches in the
United States is that Of St. Michael, at Marble
Macs ruhS oh l,,,1& ne
terial wholly brought from England 1t has
reredos an ancient chandelier, and pulpit of
quaint pattern. The second rector married
the widow Custls to Gen. Washington.
Ninety-nine Unitarian churches are without
pastors, and not more than twenty-five of them
are able, says the Year Book, to support min
lister. Twenty have given no signs of life fer
several years. and are probably dead The
number of ministers in the denomination are
4Ol, which indicates an increase of thirteen
Although formal fraternal relations have not
yet been established between the northern and
southern Presbyterian churches, ministerial ex-
changes between the two bodies are not un-
common. Rev. ". c. Young, of Chicago has
been called to New Orleans, and Drs. Otis, Left
wlch and Moore, of the South, have served in
Northern churches.
The Rev. Mr.. Mcfarland, of the New Guinea
mission, says the heathen are much more de-
praved than in the old-time heathendom of
Greece; that they adore more shapeless blocks.
bow before worse looking idols, and worship in
less elegant temples. He says that the only
hope of the heathen world is in the eleyating
power OF Christianity.
A prominent feature in Henry Varley's new
tabernacle, in Melbourne, Australia. will be a
large coffee house, where eatables will be fur
nlshed at a little over cost price. The whole
edifce will cost about $1,000 1t will be
nearly as large Talmage's Brooklyn Taber-
nacle. working Mans Club will find
shelter under its roof, with reading rooms and
other ample conveniences
There are now in Japan LOG protestant mis-
sionaries and A organized churches. Of the
congregations II wholly self-supporting
and 26 partly SO. The number of native church
members is 1917 who contributed last year
1892. There are three theological schools,
with 100 students and native ordained preach
ers, with SO assistants. The Presbyterian mis-
sion churches are already talking of sending
a missionary to Corea on their own account.
Earl Cairns recently presided at meeting of
the Church Missionary society. He remarked
that it was said by some that activity in mis-
slonary work was a test of a standing or fall
ing church, and he belived there was a great
deal of truth in the observation. During the
last century the Church Missionary society had
Gone great work, not only in foreign and
heather lands, but also at home, and it had