Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.

he does not laugh at the style OF the tomb
stones.
No clergyman steals, in the opinion of the
SaratOgian, HE merely forgets to turn his
commas"
Of the 10000 children in the Sabbath
schools in Australia, 81 900 are in the Metho-
dist schools.
The King of Siam has issued proclamation
allowing all citizens of that country to worship
as they sec fit.
A Baptist preacher in Raleigh, North Caro-
lima, has been presented with box of cigars
and 1000 greenback.
The Most Reverend Archbishop Seghers
lately mistaken for gambler, while looking up
the stray Catholics in Idaho.
The American Church Missionary society has
issued its twentieth annual report. Its total
receipts for the year were 500, 765.
1t is estimated that fully 10000 clergymen in
the Anglican church are unbenefced, and some
have served fifteen years or upwards.
1t is said that nearly $500 school teachers in
Belgium have resigned in consequence Of the
threats of discipline from the bishops.
st. Luke's Episcopal church in Montclair N.
j., is advertised to be sold under foreclosure
Jan. 5. The Indebtedness is $4,000.
hundred years ago, Moravian missionary
baptized the first negro convert in Dutch Gui-
ana, and now the mission numbers %, 301.
The English Independent and Noneontornaist
both Congregational papers, have concluded to
pool their issues, and will shortly appear as
one.
Rev: Henry Lasch has, by his own request
been dropped from the roll of the Central Pres
bytery of Philadelphia, he having become
Baptist.
The Exeter diocesan conference, in England,
after discussing free and open sittings, decid-
ed the desirability of making all churches free
as far as possible.
Mr.. Messersmith, who was member of St.
Johns Lutheran church. of Reading, bequeath-
ed $500 to that church and $500 to the Or
phans' Home, Germantown.
1t is said, for the first time in the history of
the Protestant Episcopal church, women took
part in voting for rector for the church Of the
Holy Communion, New York city.
There are twenty-five deaconesses in the
Episcopal church diocese of Long Island.
They do not constitute an order, but are simply
under the direction of the bishop.
The native churches of Southern Africa, gath
cred from the Bechuana Hottentot and Kafir
races, have now enrolled about $4,000 men and
women who have professed faith in Christ.
The Free Church of Scotland are raising
jubilee fund of 100000 for missionary pur-
- Ia,- nr r1or
Duff was ordained as a missionary to India.
Mr.. Walter, NJ. P, recently advised the
English clergy as body to learn how to read
| their own sermons, and to study them before
hand until they were entirely familiar with
them.
A venerable maiden lady named Travis, 100
years old, has recently been baptized by the
Vicar of Cottingham This event is without
parallel in the history of the Church of Eng
land.
Barring Brothers g. Co., of London, have or
dered 81, 900 bell for church in 'rtland,
Me-, "as an expression of friendly business re-
| Iations during many years with the citizers of
Portland
The edifice of the church at vinton, Iowa,
erected about two years ago at cost of S35,
| 600, has been condemned by competent ar
| chitect and closed on account of serious de-
| feet in the building.
| 1t is to be hoped that the stuffy En- ish vicar
who declined to attend a corporation dinner
| because a Methodist minister was invited to
say grace went hungry that day or dined ON ex-
ceedingly plain fare.
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the position of janitor or sexton by auction, at
which the person naming the smallest sum Sc
cures the situation. Forty dollars was the an
nual sum recently bid.
| DR.. Nathan Brown, in translating the New
Testament into japanese, was obliged to trans
fer only two words-'amen' and ''hyssop."
The Japanese language, DR.. Brown says, is as
precise and as flexible as Greek.
In the Catholic diocese of Paderborn, the
Prussian May laws have wrought great damage
to the church. The Catholics number about
7I9, 7A, in 466 parishes. Nearly 100 of these
| parishes were vacant in the chaplaincies and
subordinate posts.
little fellow in Connecticut asked his pa
rents to take him to church with them. They
said he must wait until he was older. "Well, y
was his shrewd suggestion in response, you'd
better take me now, for when I get bigger l
may not want to co.
The Golos of St. Petersburg publishes let
ter from its correspondent in Odessa, to the
effect that very ancient and interesting man
uscript of the four gospels written on l2O
sheets of parchment, has just been discovered
under an Did house in Bulgaria.
The Catholic population of Canada q .S46,-
500 is provided for by % bishops, 1859 priests,
and 1,617 churches. There are also Is semi
naries, 40 colleges, IS academies, PAT converts,
| 90 religious communities, 43 asylums, "a hos
pitfalls, and 3,544 elementary schools.
The Royal Gazette, of Georgetown, British
Guiana, publishes a special law, recently
passed, empowering the financial authorities
of the government to make loan Of $4,000
to the Wesleyan missionary society. This is
something new in missionary annals.
The Western Methodist, formerly published
at Memphis, but Ore recently at Nashville, is
to be removed to Little Rock, Ark, and united
with the Church Ne,cs. 1t will add the latter
name to its title, and the paper will be editeo
by the Revs. W. G. johnson, Jerome Harrison
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