Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-11
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.

Bx-Gov. Morgan has recently made gift of
100000 to Union Theological Seminary.
The Rev. Thomas G. Eaton has accepted the
call to the Lee Avenue Congregational church
of Brooklyn.
Bishop Harris has just returned to New York
from a visit to the Methodist Episcopal Mis-
sions in Mexico.
The death is announced of the Rev. George
W. Kline, of Bath, Me. lie was graduate of
Williams college.
The Rev. II. W. Jones, of BordentoWn, NJ
j., has accepted call to tbs SchuylkilI
Baptist church of Philadelphia.
ExGov. Brown, of Georgia, has given $780,
600 to the Southern Baptist theological semin-
airy, at Louisville, KY, to endow a professor
ship.
The Rev. P. Thyholdt, a graduate of the
Chicago Theological Seminary, has received
call from the Presbyterian church at Evart,
Michigan.
The Rev. Henry III. Parsons, pastor of the
Lafayette atreet church, Buffalo, II. Y, has re-
ceived call to the Knox Presbyterian church,
Toledo, Ohio.
The South Baptist convention, representing
nearly!two-thirds of the Baptists in this country
will hold its annual meeting, at Lexington,
KY, beginning May 6.
The Ant-P olgamy STANDARD, of Salt Lake
City, is the latest candidate for general circu-
lation. It is published in the interest of the
Ladies' Anti-Poligamy society OF Utah.
An appeal is made to English churchmen for
funds to build cathedral in the new diocese
of Lahore, Ind. The congregation in Lahore is
now worshiping in a Mohammedan temple.
Revival services in the Wharton Street Meth
odist Episcopal church, Philadelphia, have,
thus far, resulted in the conversion Of LAO
persons. The meetings are still continued.
There are, it is said, one hundred and City
Thousand German Protestants in Brazil, the
majority of whom are Lutherans. They are
very poorly supplied with pastors and churches.
Twelve Angelic bishops held ordinations du-
ring Lent and admitted 124 persons to hold or
ders. OF these, 81 were graduates OF Cam
bridge, SO of Oxford, Z of Durham, and 5 OF,
Dublin.
An Advent conference, held at Worcester,
Mass, recently, discussed at length certain
prophecies of Daniel, and decided that they in
dictate that the end of the world viii come in
February 1884.
Last year the government of Honduras abol-
ished the old church tax of one-tenth the in
comes of the people. Many of those who took
advantage of the new law and refused to pay
have been excommunicated by the priests.
In the Missouri diocese of the Protestant
Episcopal church there only 5,l67 commu-
nicants, the net gain being only z. Last year
there vera 752 baptisms and 369 combinations.
The total amount of money raised was $685.
GIL.
The value of the church property of the
Northern Methodist church in the south Is esti-
mated at S6,500,00O The benevolent collec-
tions last year amounted to $67,650, OF which
SO, 1870 was contributed by the colored mem
bers.
TIE Rev. Isaiah Crocker Thacher died ct Pea
body, Mass, March 16, aged 65 years. Re was
a graduate of Union college and Yale seminary
and had held pastorates in Mattapoisett, Mid
dleboro', South Dennis, Gloucester, Warebam
and Lakeville.
The Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon received recently from
Mr.. John B. Cough an ebony walking stuck,
with massive golden head, elegantly chased,
the center being inlaid with piece of Califor-
MIA quartz dotted over with the precious metal
in its natural size.
The Rev. T. B. Miller, OF Philadelphia, was
expelled from the conference few days ago,
on being convicted of having an active interest
in bogus college called the University of Phila-
delphia. His partner, the Rev. VIM. Major,
was suspended for one year.
DR.. McCosh, of Princeton, recently stated
that out of the Thousand and more young men
who had gone out from under his instructions
at Princeton, only four were skeptical and
three of them were afterwards converted and
became preachers of the gospel.
Bishop Crowther, Anglican missionary bish-
OPP of the region of the Niger, West Africa, is a
very broad churchman. He has recently
preached in Wesleyan church and addressed
a meeting of Baptist missionaries. The bishop
was formerly heather slave.
The supreme court of Michigan has decided
that it is not violation of the Sunday laws of
the State to subscribe money on Sunday to
purchase church, or to help to build one. 1t
is lawful contract if it is made Sundsy.
Such promises may be enforced in the courts of
law.
The Rev. Mr.. Lamphere, of Beverly, pastor of
Congregational church. is sustained by large
majority of his church, while the society has
voted to pay him no salary. lie can stay as
long as the church will keep him, but have
no pay for his services. He has decided to
stick
The Freedmen's Aid society proposes to the
friends of the late Bishop Haven to raise $780,
600 for the completion of Clark university at
Atlanta, Ga, as a suitable monument to his
memory, his name to be given to professor
ship in the institution, in which he was very
much interested.
An aged colored man was fastening home
from church and was asked why he was in so
great a hurry. so, nothin partiklar, boss"
was his answer; "on'y jess heerd at de con-
frunce dat Sam Johnson's fell FIN grace, an 1
thought I'd get right homes soOn's could'n
lock up my chickens; that's all"
Chicago has 213 churches, besides twenty
mission chapels and eleven Adventist and
Spiritualist societies. The Catholics have
thirty of the churches, the Baptists twenty
four, the Lutherans twenJy-four, the Methodists
nineteen, the Presbyterians eighteen, and the