Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-22
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.

Mr.. Moody will not ride in street chr on
Sunday.
man cares little for his wrong. when get
ting his funeral rites.
Oysters two" would seem to be the proper
way to spell church festival soup.
Rev. David A. Sanford has entered on mig
slonary work at Las Vegas, New Mexico.
The Rev. DR.. Omission, OF New York, has
taken a three months vacation il the South.
! United States have $50 young men studying fer
! the ministry.
The Rev. DR.. Bolles, of New York, has been
| invited to deliver q series of lectures on
'Shakspeare and His Theology
The Baptist Missionary Union calls for $780,
GOO within the next two months to put the
missions on safe financial footing.
Chancellor Crosby, of Yale college, in re-
cent lecture makes spirited protest against
the custom of preaching as didate.''
The Rev. John r. McDougall, Of Florence,
Italy, has secured appropriate quarters in Ven
ice for the Free italian church work in that
city.
The Rev, MIR. Ravlin. of Chicago, has made
application for readmission to the Baptist fold,
from which he strayed some four or five years
ago.
Resolutions in memory of the late Bishop
Haven have been passed by more than fifty
churches and other ecclesiastical organiza-
lions.
Cardinal Nina has called the attention of the
Brazilian government to the official protection
extended to Masonic professions, which is de-
plored.
A little fellow whs. was asked how John the
Baptist was clothed, answered. Sin coarse
garments of canels hair eight locusts ant; wild
honey"
Seven churches have been destroyed in
Sicily by order of the authorities, and the
religious journals protest against this govern
mental vandalism.
The Rev. Edmund Lyon, Presbyterian min
lister of Rochester, N. Y, celebrated his 87th
birthday few days ago by giving S25, 900 to
the board of home missions.
In Texas there is church which holds forty
five members and holds three prayer meetings
week. Only one of its members pays any
thing for the support of the minister.
Bishop Colenso has ready for immediate
publication translation from the Dntch of
the narrative of Win, a Dutchman who was
shut up in Ulandi during the Zulu war.
young man. said Mr.. Daniel Rice, do You
want to go down to drnnkards grave?''
'Well," replied the young man, - don't care
if do. Whereabouts is your family lot?''
The Evangelist says that as $1,000 of our 292,-
600 Indians can write, and sc, 900 are members
of churches, the fact is proved beyond r doubt
that the Indian is capable of being civilized.
The observant small boy" went to church
and heard the minister repeatedly say In his
prayer. Grant MS, o Lord" He reported at
home that the minister had "come out strong
for Grant,
Bishop Fallows intends to have preached at
his church series of sermons by preachers of
different denominations, answering the pTopo-
sitions why am Baptist" Why am
Methodist" etc.
At the last meeting OF the executive COM
mittee of the Chinese Religious Tract society,
the Rev. A. P. Happier, D. D., was nominated
as president Of the board of trustees, in place
of Bishop Russell, deceased.
1t is believed that the only survivor of the
handful Of men and women who in 1912 found
ed the first Baptist organization of Elizabeth,
N. j., is lady who still lives in Elizabeth in
the nineiy-third year of her age.
The American Bible society will make great
preparation for the semi-millennial celebration
of Wickliffe's translation of the bible into En-
glish. It will be held on the I'd of December
next. DIR. Storrs, of Brooklyn, will deliver
the Grafton.
The sick man had been brought back, "a if
by miracle, from the very gates of death.
ct is too bad, too bad ;" says the clergyman;
''hell never be half as ready to die as 1 had
him this time. I never took such pains with
sinner BEFORE
who was Ezakiel?" asked the Sunday school
teacher of an intelligent looking little girl in
one of our city churches. The answer was:
Ezekiel was one of the minor prophets, and
the son of Daniel Webster" This answer was
accepted 'hout controversy.
In Elizabeth, N. j., the two Baptist churches
are negotiating with 2 view 20 consolidating
into one. 1t is thought that if one strong
church can be made to take the place of tie
two, which financially crippled there viii
be hopes of successful life and growth.
A dull clergyman, having written some OBJ
servations on Shakspeare's plays, h-ongat a
specimen of his work to Sherit H. and asked
his opinion OF it. Il wonder people won't
mind their own affairs" said Sh,rdan; ''you
may spoil your own Bible, if you please, but
pray let ours alone"
The Adventists of Battle Creek, Mich, nc.
cepted the special revelations which the Rev.
NJ White said he received from heaven; but
when Mrs. White also delivered messages, in
which some of the sisters of the church were
assaulted. they Y that her claim to divine re-
lationship was fraudulent.
Prof. Wilkinson, in a recent article in the
Examiner, defines ''close communion" "a re
stricted communion" which he says does not
repel; it simply does not invite, and, not in
viting, it does not accept invitations,-all of
which will be accepted brilliant specimen
of theological hair-splitting.
The Religious Herald, of Richmond, gives
rather questionable consolation. Virginia
subscriber writes follows: You are pub
fishing the obituaries of the Georgia and Ala
bama preachers, but seem to have no space for