Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-04
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.

Many preachers seek to impress their hear
ers with the fact that life is short, but forget
it in their sermons.
A Baptist association, embracing twenty
seven churches; has been organized by The
Choctaws and Chickasaws in the Indian Terri
tory.
OF the $50 missionaries now laboring il
India, twenty-eight are physicians as well a;
ministers. On this account their success has
been very great.
The Rev. Charles Ray Palmer has resigned
the Presidency of the Connecticut Bible so
ciety. He did not approve of the raid made on
the American Bible society.
The Episcopal Bishop of Indiana contem-
plates spending the winter in Florida. His
standing committee have urged him to take a
vacation of several months.
The Rev. DR.. Post, for twenty-eght years
pastor of the First Congregational church in
st. Louis, has resigned-the resignation to
take effect January /, 1882.
"Who wrote the book OF James, il the new
testament?' asked a Sunday-school teacher in
Missouri village; and little fellow at the
Mr. Beecher in his sermon last Sunday con-
sidered the uses and abuses of the Christian
Sabbath. He held that the day of rest is needed
quite as much for the body as for the moral
condition of man.
Grace Methodist Episcopal chuch in Bro ok
Ign has been sold for $4,000 to the Campbell
lites church of Christ. The congregation of
- hill nh,,ra
near Prospect Park.
Kalloch, of San Francisco, is now repudi-
ated by most of the respectable Baptists on the
Pacific coast. Recently he went all the way
to Portland, Oregon, to deliver lecture, and
was severely snubbed.
The Rev. DR.. Richard S. Storrs has just
completed the thirty-ffth year of his pastor
ate of the church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn,
and in commemoration thereof he has been
presented with check for 900.
Bishop Harris has sailed for South America
to visit the Methodist missions on the eastern
and western coasts. If he finds it practicable
he will sail for South America to Africa to
preside over the Liberian conference.
The "Boy Preacher" Mr.. Harrison, recent
ly said at a revival meeting that he thought
he should not die, but that when his time
comes the angels will come and place him
under their wings and gently bear him away.
Mr.. Kimbal, the great debt-raiser, who by
his magnetic influence over congregations has
conferred such solid benefit on many church
es, has been suffering for three or four months
with nervous prostration, resulting from
oyerWork.
There is movement on foot to create an
other Catholic diocese in Michigan on the
ground that the episcopal duties of Bishop
Borgess. have grown excessive. The proposed
new bishopric is to be known as the diocese of
Grand Rapids.
A little son of en- Evangelical clergyman
wished that he could die and go to heaven"
"Why?" asked his grandmother, feeling that
he is getting too good to live. "'Cause l
want to get some of the pennies I've been
giving to God''
Anexchange says that an Indianapolis Judge
has decided that "a druggist may sell cigar
on Sunday, but not cigar dealer" And it
is wise decision, too A druggist should
not be permitted to sell cigar dealer on Sun
day or any other day.
The Congregational Union, Of England, did
not, as reported, recommend the revised YER
sion to its churches for adoption. 1t passed q
resolution extending thanks to the revisers
and congratulating them on the favorable re-
ception the revision had met with by the gen
eral public.
Speaking of the players in the great cushion
carom billiard tournament at Tammauy Hall,
the New York Stur says that Wallace is Bal
timore waif, 10 years old, has displayed great
er nerve than ever was known before, and in
year from now he will be the hardest to beat
of the ten contestants.
Fitting emblems are not always appreciated.
The neighbors of a poor fellow who died
erected tombstone to his memory, and had
placed above it the conventional white dove.
The widow looked at it through her tears, and
said:e "It is very thoughtful to put it there.
John was very fond of ginning, and it is an
especially suitable emblem
1t is good to be choir singer in st. Louis.
A skilled tenor commands nearly 81, 900 year
in the most fashionable churches; baritones
are paid about $500, and sopranos from $500
to $1,000. Even at these prices there is
dearth of superior singers, because the Chica-
go churches bid somewhat higher prices, and
are glad to get the best talent away from st.
Louis.
A correspondent of the London Methodist
says: ''The church can far better afford to
wait while herimmature sons ere getting the
sap dried out of them than she can afford to
carry the burden of their unripeness and ig-
norance. When young men feel of how little
consequence any man be, they will feel the
need of preparing. as best they can, for the
work to which they are called"
The Rev. o. P. Clinton, IS years odd, has
Travelled as missionary in Wisconsin, in saddle
and buggy, over 10000 miles, preached over
5000 sermons, and OBLIGATED at 300 funerals.
Recently he rode sixteen miles In the saddle
over terrible roads on Saturday to oficiate at
a funeral, preached twice the next day and
rode twelve miles, and reached home Monday
noon. making twenty Eve miles, as good as
new.
Among the first to formally approve and
use the revised version of the New Testament
were the Protestant clergymen of New haven.
A few days ago, in a meeting for discussing