Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-05
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.

-no tsoS' oAlnus NaIey' distinguish Weg-
ieyan divine and theological professor, is dead
Christian Hebrews are most numerous in
Russia, Germany and England coming next in
order.
One Thousand Congregational. ministers of
England and Wales are set down as tota, ab-
stainers.
Sir Francis Lycett, who recently gave s25.-
ooo toward Wesleyan chapel building in Lon
don, is dead
IL Is sad that Mr.. Moody's meetings in Salt
Lake Oity carried CONSERVATION into the ranks
Oh inc M'rmons, and were very influential for
good.
One-nait OF the necessary endowment of
@oV'ooo 1or the Southern Presbyterian theo-
iegical seminary, at Columbia, 8. c., has bean
provided for.
DIR. Dickey, pastor of Calvary Presbyterian
church, Philadelphia, enters on his sizth wear.
The church has SCI members and ia enioving
steady prosperity.
piece of tough meat lodged il tho wind
pipe of the Rev. Mr.. Carey, of Arlington,
Northamptonshire, England, and killed him
before he could rise from the table
OH al Oiu rngllSn TOMBSTONE - the fol-
lowing:
Here lies the body of Mary Bent,
Kicked up her heels and away she went.
The English Congregational union will cele-
brate, next year, the jubilee of its foundation,
and institute special jubilee fund. Congre-
gationalists from other countries will be invited
to participate.
The English society for promoting Christian
knowledge has just Published the Gospel of St.
Matthe" and parts of the prayer book in Ojib-
way, and manual of devotion il the Beaver
Indian dialect.
lis heaven State, do yea thinkF' inquired
Mrs. FitEioy Of Mr.. Top,ofty. CAV, weally
don't wecollect. My impression is thas.it is
only tewwitowy, avn Theological geography
was Immediately dropped.
II wonder. uncle" said little girl, 'sif men
Will ever yet live to be 500 or LOCO years old?'
mo, my Child responded the old man, ''that
was tried once, and the race grew 30 bad that
the world had to be drowned"
The English papers tell of priest near Ira
lee, Ireland, who made his congregation, at
TWO masses. promise on their knees not to in
brue their hands in the blood of one of his
parishoners-a large land agent.
DR.. Legge, an expert in Chinese matters,
calculates that, at the present rate of mission
increase, there will be, in 1913 26, O0O,0 900
church members and 100, 600, 600 protesting
Christians in the Chinese empire
The Methodist ministers of Boston, in their
Monday morning meeting, have had under COZ
sideration for much of the time for some
months the question of future probation, in
which some of their ministers were found to be
heterodox.
Five missionaries abou. to go oct OF return
to service in India participated in the recent
missionary meeting of the English Baptist ur-
ion. One of them was q converted Parsee and
two of the others were authors of works in the
Hindi language.
Bishop COtterili, of Edinburgh, gave an &C.
count, at the recent meeting of the synod of
his diocese, of his visit to America and at
tendance upon the Episcopal general eonven-
ton. He testified to the warmpth of the re-
ceptiOn he met with.
The council having in charge the distripu-
ton of the London hospital Sunday fund has
decided, in substance, not to make grants 10
hospitals in which religious liberty is not al
lowed or in which religious principles CT pa-
tients are tempered with.
1t is stated that King Oscar II, of Sweden.
has ordered a collection to be taken in all his
churches of Sweden before May next, for the
benefit of Zion Swedish Lutheran church in
Philadelphia. The fund will be used to help
in providing place of worship for the Swedes.
Scotch professor SAID with great warmth,
at discussion of the Sunday question in the
Glasgow meeting OF the Social Science con-
gress, that "30, 900 Englishmen have been w.
ing at Bannookburn for the last 500 years be-
cause they could not stay at home and mind
their own business
The Vicar of Whitfield recently presided ovar
Nonconformist meeting at GIossop, England.
and said that he believed the time was coming
when the Christian churches must agree as far
as they could on the points which were essen-
tial, and try to differ as little as possible on
points that were non-essential
There has been a loss of 469 members /, the
California Methodist conference last year. The
supposed causes are the decrease in population
OF the State; large emigration TO the north
into Oregon, south into southern California.
and to the east into Arizona, and in observing
more strictly the new schedule for reporting
statistics.
The Methodist plan of Episcopal visitation
of the spring fixes the time and place OF the
New Jersey conference at Salem, N. j., Bishop
Foster presiding; of the Newark conference at
Jersey City, March 50. under the presidency of
Bishop Harris, and OF the Philadelphia confer
ence at Pottsville, March 16, Bishop Harris
presiding.
Prof. Robertson Smith has signifed bis in
tention to submit to the instruction of the
commission of the Free church. and abstain
from teaching in Aberdeen college until the
meeting of the general assembly in May. Eff
forts will be made in his behalf to have tho
assembly disapprove the action of the commits
sion as irregular.
man IN prayer meeting at Great Springs,
Ga, declared that he was ready to die. and
awaited the summons with impotence. He
had barely uttered the sentiment when a bullet
crashed through the window and grazed his
ear. a neighbor, whom he had sued for debt,
had taken him at his word He hastily hid
himself under a bench.
Among the persons recently admitted to the
membership of the South Conversational
church, at Hartford, was one who had been