Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09
SUNDAY GLOSELETS.

The Presbyterians are building two churches
in Alaska.
The New York Gospel tents will remain
open till cold weather.
They hold temperance meetings every Sun
day in Havetly's New York theatre.
The easiest thing in the world is to see a
fault in another man and virtue in yourself.
One of the fine choirs of New York is that
of St. Francis Xavier's church, numbering
sixty voices.
The Baptists are yery~strong at Richmond,
Va. OF 5000 people there 20, 900 are Bap-
lists and only 900 are members of other de-
nominations.
Rev. Father O'Connor, of the Independent
Catholic church, lectured in New York on
Sunday last on mo Priestcraft in President
Garfeld's Case"
Dr.. Charles +. Deems having retired from
the conduct of the Sunday MagGSine, DR..
Talmage will take charge of il with the De-
cember number.
The Rev. DR.. Edmonds has accepted an in
vitation to visit America, and has received
three months leave of absence from the Lon
don Presbytery.
Rev. Francis II. Potts, NJ. A, of Trinity
College, Hartford, has accepted the appoint
ment of tutor of classical languages and his
tory in Griswold college.
"The Doctors and their Patient-a lesson
from the Presidents bedside was the text OF
a sermon in Brooklyn last Sunday by Rev. DR..
q. c. Carpenter, Congregationalist.
a newspaper editor who knows how it is
himself declares thai Though the guilty man
is sure that no one knows bis guilt he is al
ways afraid that someone has just found him
out
'What did the Puritans come to this
country for?" asked Massachusetts, teacher
of his class. ITO worship in their own way
and make other people do the same," was the
reply.
Father Walsh, the well known independent
or reformed Catholic, is holding services in
the cities and towns in the vicinity of New
York. The sect founded by him seems to be
growing.
4 brother arose in weekly prayer-meeting
in New Jersey and said Brethren, when I
consider the shortness of life, feel as if l
might be taken away suddenly like thief in
thenight."
The Belgian idea of Sunday is festival. On
that day they crowd to the seaside to battle,
picnic, and go to the places of amusement.
On one recent Sunday 1000 excursionists ar
rived at Ostend.
The New York HerGId'S proyerb man tells
Us that ''You can't make good out of evil any
more than you can skim the cream off the top
of pan of milk and then turn it over and
skim it off the bottom.''
81 Declare" said Fogg, "it's really too bad.
All summer long have been dying to attend
church, and every meeting house was closed;
now that have got rcconcIled TO the depriva-
ton, Pm blamed if they aren't all open"
a bronze statue of the Virgin Mary, eight
feet high and weighing 1900 pounds, is to be
placed in St. Joseph's Home for Boys, in La
fayette place and Great Jones street, New
York It represents the Virgin in an attitude
of entreaty.
Nearly all the preachers in the country al
luded to the death of President Garfield on
the Sunday following his death, and nearly
every one of them revealed his attitude in re-
spect to the stalwart and half-breed factions of
the Republican party.
The largest increase of Baptists since 1870
has been in the fifteen Southern states, where
the gain is 76l AIS. In the six Eastern states
the increase is 1890; in the Middle states,
81 1908; In the thirteen Western states, g. TIC,
and in the Territories, 5000.
Rev. DR.. j. C. Rankin has been pastor of the
church at Basking Ridge, n. j., for thirty
years. In that time sol members have been
added, 500 on examination; present member
ship, 240. The church is out of debt and the
benevolent funds have increased skiold.
a Sunday school visitor, who was interro-
eating his children, asked the question "Why
was Lots wife turned into pillar of salt 2"
There was pause, and then a small boy, with
preternatural growth of the head, piped out:
dispose it was because she was too fresh"
"Ain't going to put your house in mourn
ing on this solemn occasion, Mr.. Smike?"
said village patriot to neighbor, reproach-
fully. 'No, of course amt" returned the
unabashed Smike. "Mrs. SIS mother died yes
terday, and itmight create false impression"
SOu1S pSOpIS SOOu
occasions, but it fails in long drouth and
heavy rain. 1t is like the faith of the old lady
who, when riding down a steep hill, trusted in
Providence until the breeching broke, and
then thought it was about time for her to take
care OF herself.
It isn't true that good act is always re-
warded. Recently clergyman who had bored
his accomplishing congregation almost to
death by his long sermons, resigned his pulpit
and went to Florida. One month later the
Intelligence arrived that he had been swal-
lowed by an alligator.
A common subject for sermons last Sunday
throughout the country was the death of
Garfield as following the general prayer for
his recovery. The explanations varied but
slightly, and were nearly all that God does
not answer prayer when to do so would
thwart his all-wise designs.
A Mrs. Cooper, said to be cousin of Colo
mel Robert G. Ingersoll, was lately expelled
from San Francisco Presbyterian church for
heresy, in that she denied the authenticity of
the story of Jonah and the whale. Mrs.
Cooper had her pastor put on trial for adver
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