Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-26
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.

A temperance convocation will be held {
Lake Bluff August 1929.
Men are naturally charitable, but they ha,
a bad habit of feeling everywhere for the poo
except in their pocketbooks.
He is very ordinary man who never fine
fault with himself, and very extraordinar
one who never has reason to do so.
A Hartford divorce lawyer said 10 his mil
lister the other day: you and I live in th
right State for one another-what you Cor
nectieut''
A fastidious man is one who is PARTICULAR
shocked at vulgarity in Others, but who exer
cises great forbearance toward himself whel
he does the same things.
A student at Oxford University on being
asked "Who was Esau?" replied: "Esau wa
man who wrote fables, and sold his copy
right for mess OF potash"
Disaster is Il necessary part of human eXpe
rience. Even the year, when it rushes through
the summer, has It's fall but it gets up again
and goes on as though nothing had happened.
Spurgeon has determined to take journey
to the Nile. Two of his deacons will go with
him. Joseph Cook has accepted an invitation
10 UeItN6T 5OiIG ItctttlGS III 4hCGIOpOiitdu
tabernacle while Surgeon is away.
The Ursuline nuns who recently left Quebec
for Chicontimi, en- route to Lake St. John,
greatly wondered at the steamboat, they hav-
ing been cloistered for thirty years past, and
never before having seen steamer.
There are eighteen different evangelical So
cieties at work in Syria. These employ eighty
foreign preachers and teachers and 800 native
helpers They seek to reach the total popula-
ton of Syria, which numbers 100000 sonls.
1t having been legally decided that seventeen
Presbyterians make "a respectable number
the church at Torresdale, erected from funds
left for the purpose by tn late Charles Macal
ester, will be dedicated on Tuesday evening
next.
DR.. Clifford, the Catholic bishop of Clifton,
Eng and, has declared for DArwnan inter-
probation of Genesis. He thinks that it is
poor science, and that the writer meant it as
hymn of creation rather than q textbook in
natural history.
The summer school of Christian philosophy
will meet at Warwick woodlands, Greenwood
lake, Orange county, July 1922. Lectures
will be delivered by DR.. Deems, Noah Porter,
DR.. McIlvaine, Prof Martin, and President
BascoR.
The Hebrew club in the divinity school of i.
Yale college have made and published a re- t.
vision of the authorized version of the proph- {
ecy Of Habakkuk. 1t is distributed for crit =
icism, and is in advance of The revision OF the q
old testament by the British and American @
committees. a
A committee has been appointed by the
Welsh bishops 70 consider the eXpediency of i;
revising the Welsh new testament according e
to the Greek text adopted in the English re- r.
vision. The present Welsh version was not IL
translated from the original, but from the G.
English version, and therefore is not regarded ir
as sufficiently idiomatic. W
A Wesleyan missionary in Natal, writing of w w
an increase of eighty converts in that district te
says this encouraging result is largely due to 81
the energy and zeal of the native preachers. W
81 never, " he testifies, "saw the equal of 81
good Zulu Christian anywhere for zeal in seek
ing the salvation of his own brother. 1t is
passion with him that puts many of us to
shame.''
For some months past the Church of the to
Immaculate Conception and parsonage con- sh
nected with it in Montclair N J has been vi
robbed by burglars, who have Pr
stolen ornaments from the altar, books, be
carpets and other articles. Recently one of the p
stolen books, "The Lives of the Saints" was -,
returned by mail with the message that the S S,,
robbers had no use for it. ha
An old teacher of the Episcopal church NJ
makes this suggestion to all Sunday-school rec
teachers: If they would strictly and more care an
fully teach the children, especially the boys th'
md young men, the ten commandments, he is G I'd
under the impression that there would be less IL
cursing, and taking His most ba
loly name in vain than at present with the oil
young, growing boys and men. wa
A New York house will soon issue an edition ste
If the revised version of the new testament, Gre
With the readings and renderings perferred Yat
" the American committee incorporated into SIC
he text. II has leen nrenored in This form b1, in
Dr.. Roswell D. Hitchcock, and will be especially
interesting and satisfactory to those who con- IT.,
ider that the suggestions of the American No
ommittee are valuable and important. Ne
A witty New York society woman was anC
landing with friend before Zola's greatly Sta
dmired picture of Lot and his daughters par
which was on exhibition in an art store on OF I
fifth avenue. "Oh!" remarked the friend MOI
olorously, "what do you suppose Lot thought ne'
7hen he beheld his poor wife turned to pillar b,
f salt ?" ~ suppose" replied the wit, with feer
dmirable gravity, he thought how he could wit
ct hlmself-a fresh one." thit
There is one way in which to efectually cav
horten the sermons of Sunday. If ministers stol
Ill divide their topics into three parts, and "a
the end of the first part tell the congrega- ei.e
on that they will not proceed to the second "
ntil the first has been practised, they can the
ave an opportunity to go off on long, a is II
cry long vacation, and when they return der
ley may think it advisable to repeat the first is
: lest the people may have misunderstood it. carr
young lady in Boston had gathered Sun IL is
y-school class from among the news boys of looi
lie city. One Sunday she was striving to i'm ba o
'ess upon their minds some good advice in decs
gard to the future, when it occurred to her in +
at the word was perhaps little beyond The II