Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-11
SUNDAY GLOBELETs


Francis Murphy is in Pittsburg, busy with
his temperance work.
Hanian and Courtney are perfect Christians.
There'u never be a row between them-rot if
they know it.
During the last fiscal year Henry Ward
Beecher's church paid S65, 900 for the support
of the gospel.
The death Is announced OF Prof William
Livingstone, OF the Lombard college, at Gales
burg. He held the chair of natural science.
There are fresh reports of intolerance in b.
hemla' the prosecutions to which the Protest.
ants are subjected in Prague being worse than
in Vienna.
bishop Seymour's diocese contains sixtv
counties, and were he to devote two weeks to
each it would take twenty.eigbt months to
make the grand tour.
1t Is stated that Col. Alexander Mcclure.
long connected with the press in Pbiladelnbia
and prominent politician, is about to study
for holy orders in the church.
People are apt to be very generous with what
costs nothing. Sidney Smith once said that
most men are ready to act the good Samaritan.
ouC n-tAOuS Tue Oh anu TWO pence,
The Italian Catholics believe that Plus TX.
has entered into heaven, and is now in the DO
sltlon of an intercessor. From this it may be
inferred that his concentration is not far dis
tant.
The Rev. Wolcott Cakins, d. D., of Buffalo
N. y, resigns his Presbyterian pastorate and
accepts call to the Elliot Congregational
church of Newtowr, Mass, at salary of s5..
600.
At the request of the Pittsburgh Synod of the
Lutheran church the Rev. c. P. Krauth, Vice
PRESIDENT OF the University of Pennsylvania
has undertaken the preparation of life of
Luther.
Ten young men, born in Liberia, West Afri-
ca, are pursuing their studies at Lincoln Uni
versity, near Oxford, Chester County, Pa, to
prepare themselves for usefulness in their ma
tive land.
The Rev. j. III. Blayney, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, Of Albany, has been COM
PEELED to resign, 30 1T is stated, because he
voted for John Kelly, the Tammany candidate
for governor.
Joseph Cook renders the old saw, Sauce for
goose, sauce fer gander,'' as follows: Those
culinary adornments which suffice for the an
serlne female are adequate to meet the wants
of the masculine adult of the same species.
DIR. Withrow, of Boston, is the latest investi-
gator of 1.-The Moody converts in that CITY,
and he hnds. or a committee has found for
MIN, that, with very few exceptions, the con-
verts have returned to their former ways.
"Napoleol's Divorce from Josephine and
His Marriage with Maria Louisa is the subject
OF lecture so be delivered in St. Mary's Ca
thollc church, Philadelphia, by the rector, the
Rev. +. Horstmann, d. D., on Sunday evening,
the 18th inst.
Mr. Ruskins opinions about church archi-
lecture are as positive ever. Il care no
more" he writes, ''about any modern churches
or church furniture than about the drop-sceue
at Drury Lane-not so much, indeed, if the
truth were all told
1t is stated that the Broadway Congregation
al Church at Somerville, Mass, is hopelessly
divided on the question of the orthodoxy of its
minister. Two advisory councils have been
held, to no purpose, and there will probably be
new church organization.
The Rev. Mr.. Williams, of Crescent Road
Congregational church, London, seems anxious
to distinguish himself. He has addressed his
brother ministers in a pamphlet, in which he
suggests that special prayer should be made
for the conversion of the Devil.
The Rev. Collamore Puriugton, of Fairfield,
Me-, has withdrawn from the Universalists.
His reasons for so doing are: l. That he
sees no good effects from preaching Univer-
salism. 2. That there widely extended preju-
dices againt it and its ministers. 3. He has
found but limited spiritual cooperation in it.
Moody and Sankey are in st. Louis, put are
not making as much Roadway as usual in their
evangelical work. They find st. Louis parti-
cuarly hard field of labor, AID some people are
base enough to ascribe it to the unresenerate
condition of the newspaper editors of that
wicked city.
Signor Grassi, who was formerly Canon of
the Church of st. Maria Maggiore at Rome and
afterwards renounced the Catholic faith, has
fitted up n chapel and Bible depository in his
fathers house IL Rome, and gathered together
a church of thirty members. with an enrolled
congregation of between 200 and 800.
Liz 10y OiiiSSAh VI lIlC NiCtiiOOISL btlSCoDaI
church for 1879 are thus reported: Number of
trustees Of churches III ,G47; number of stew
ards of societies, 81, 276; number Of class lead
ers, S5,262; number of Sunday school superin-
tendents, 80, S67 humber of Sunday school
teachers and officers other than superintendent,
1881.
In the Fiji Islands there are at present S4l
chapels, and 291 other places where preaching
is held, with ffty-eght missionaries busily en-
gagged in preparing the way for others. The
membership numbers %, 274 persons, and there
are besides 5,451 persons whose admission to
membership will probably follow soon.
Ernest (six years old)-'But, mother dear,
is it really true, the world was made in six
days!" Mamma-"Yes, Ernie, and if God had
pleased, He could have made it in two days"
Ernest latter moments onsideration)-"Oh,
mamma, that would never have done, you know;
why, we should have had Sunday every other
day.
In village school, after an oral Scripture
lesson on Cain and Abel, the teacher asked,
among other questions, why was Abels offer
ing of the lamb better than Gains of first
fruits of the ground?" He received, from lad
aUnd tho foIIouiDp ovfr,orJ;norv op,ror.