Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-13
SUNDAY GLoBELErs.


The prayer book of the Protestant EpisoopaJ
church is being translated irto the Japanese
angunge.
Inc hev. DIR. Henson becomes editor in chief
OF the Baptist Teacher, succeeding DR.. Peltz
VINO retires from all connection with it.
Archbishop Williams, of Boston. has mr.
chased the StaLwcod estate, Brighton, npop
winch Roman Catholic theological seminary
it to be established.
Inc Anglican society for promoting the en-
pioyment OF additional curates raised last wear
S246.S95, out of which it made six hundred and
twenty grants in aid OF stipends.
The Rev. Mr.. Kittredge, of the Third Pres
byterian church, Chicago, who opened th-
great convention with prayer, has recently had
an addition of $1,000 to his salary.
Talmage, last Sunday, received 400 new con-
verts into his Brooklyn Tabernacle. AS long
as this sort Of work goes on he can stand all
that his enemies may be pleased to say about
him.
Prof NOwth, D. D., presided over the fortv-
eighth annual meeting of the CONGREGATIONAL
Union of Great Britain. The Rev. DR.. Allan
was selected to preside in 1881, which il the
jubilee year of the union.
The Anglican Colonial and Continental
church society reports an income of upward of
Soo'UUO the past year. The expenditures
amounted to nearly 100000. Considerable
heip was given to.the church in British Amer
lea.
About S7O0 has been collected in his conntrv
and been forwarded to the famine sufferers in
Armenia, whose distress is represented 10 be
very great. Another and urgent appeal comes
from the committee in Constantluople for more
help.
The English Congregation Aid society aided
last year some 5l4 churches and 2S1 mission
stations, with S80, 24O to the churches, and S35-
OOO to the mission stations. The income of the
Society was $l69, 460. Some assistance was also
gwen IN raising ministerial stipends.
The chief of the metropolitans of the Rus
sian church is Isidore, metropolitan of Nov
gorod st. Petersburg, and Finland. he WIS
consecrated in 1884, and is the senior of all the
metropolitans. Of the thirteen archbishops.
but four were consecrated before 1860.
One OF Mr.. Bright's duties as chancellor of
the duchy of Lancaster is to appoint the preach
ers at the Savoy chapel. There is reason TO be-
heve that some clergymen will now be invited
to preach in that historic pulpit who were care
fully excluded from it under the tory regime.
The Oxford Presbyterian church congrega-
ton, Philadelphia, have moved back to the
church building, corner Broad and Oxford.
This church was destroyed by fire sometime
ofuIl
improved. The Sunday school portion only ia
completed.
A new official list of prelates of the Russian
church shows that there are in active service in
Russia proper three metropolitans, thirteen
archbishops, thirty-six bishops in charge of
dioceses, and twenty-five assistant bishops. In
all, there are ninety-four prelates in the Rus.
sian church.
The Primitive Methodists of England receiv-
ed last year and expended S195, SIS on its mis-
sions. The increase was $4,000. Still, there
is debt of upward of $50 600. There are 231
mission stations, of which 70 are in the United
Kingdom, &c in Canada, 80 in Australia, and
in Africa.
The Rev. DR.. Girardeau has resigned as pro-
lessor OF theology in the Southern Presbyte-
rian Theological Seminary, at Columbia, s. C.
The authorities considering the financial con-
dition of the seminary and their inability to
fill DIR. Girardeau's chair, have resolved to
close the institution for a time.
Canon Farrar, in a recent sermon on foreign
missions, said that missions to the hea.hen had
been an unmistakable reflex blessing to our
selves, partly in the indirect and uncontem-
plated results of science, discovery and COM
merce, and far more inestimably by awaken
ing deeper religious life at home.
Sir Richard Temple, late governor OF Bonn
bay, in recent speech said that the example
OF missionaries is doing more good gin India
than the British administration. The missions,
he said, are producing excellent political eff
fects. In the great centers English education
is shaking the Hindoo faith to its foundations.
Archbishop Taschereau. of Quebec, has issued
letter of communication against all Catholics
who, during the present year, shall eonspire
against or attack men for working at any price
whatever. Hewarns such persons that alb
solution for this sin can only be given after re-
paration has been done for any injury af-
ficted.
4nc OuIIsIlan ternacuIar EQQcatlOn SOcletV
for India, at its twenty-second anniversary, re-
Gently, in London, reported that it had trained
$50 teachers for India, and had printed 7,773,-
Gil copies of publications, in 16 languages 1t
is also giving instruction to 1000 children.
The receipts of the past year were S49O15, and
the expenditures $5S. O20.
meeting has been held at Bideford, Eng
land, to promote greater unity among all
Christians. lecture Home Reunion was
delivered on the occasion by Earl Nelson The
bishop of Exeter, who presided, invited the
ministers of several denominations to the plat
form, and these took part in iae discussion
which followed the lecture.
The council which has been in session IN the
Roman Catholic archdiocese of Philadelphia is
the first council held since the province was
created in 1875. The province includes the
dioceses of Pittsburgh, Erie, Scranton, Harris
burg, and the archdiocese ofPhiladeIphia The
meeting of the council completes the ecclesias-
tical organization of the province.
The death is announced of the Rev. William
Handy, sometime bishop of the Church of
the United Brethren in Christ. He was elect
ed bishop in 1916, and served one term of four