Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.

he had been led away by his pious propensi-
ties.
Sunday, October 16, and Monday, the 18th,
have been set apart as days of prayer for Sum
day.schools in the Church OF England.
1.-THE American board closes its year with
deficiency of only about s., 600, the total re-
ceipts being about the same as they were last
year.
The Presbyterian church (northern) has
16,50l elders and 1896 deacons. The num-
bers of these officers have never been reported
before this year.
Mr.. Sit Moon, the pastor of the Chinese
church at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, re-
ports that 24S of his countrymen in those
islands are Christians.
Paul Benson, a French Baptist evangelist,
has just left France to return to the Argen-
tine Republic, where he has for several years
conducted successful labors among French
settlers.
The southern Baptists are building a church
at Tore Pellice, Italy, all of stone. It is
nearly rooted, and already begins to attract
attention and advertise the principles of the
church.
Even unto copiety: "What a splendid
speaker Elder Longphiz is" remarked Mrs.
Pringle. "Don't you think he is a very pious
man, Mr.. Fogg?" eyes," replied Fogg, "very
pious-copious, in fact"
"A melancholy fact: A tombstone IN grave
yard not far from Washington Hollow reads:
Here lies little Niger,
If he'd lived little longer,
He had been little bigger.
At a recent provincial school board examin-
alton one boy stated that tale" was one of the
"plagues of Egypt" and another that ''the
ark in which Moses hid himself was pitched
inside and out to keep the crocodiles OUT
"You are now one," said the minister to the
happy pair he had just Joined together in
knot that they could never undo. (which
one?" asked the bride. "You will have to set
tie that to suit yourselves" said the clergy
man.
The Universities mission on the Zanzibar
coast of Central Africa, under Bishop Steere,
has thirty-one missionaries, seven of whom
are women, and has center at Zanzibar and
two other centers on the main land, to the
north and south, respectively, OF Zanzibar.
The Society of Friends have formed small
congregation at Constantinople, having at
times twenty-five members. One of the num-
Der, an American youth, having pursued a
course of studies in London, is about to return
to Constantinople as a physician and evan
gelist.
The Society for the Propagation of the Cos
pei Church of England) has consecrated a
cathedral, which cost $4,000, at Norfolk
Island, where colony of Pitcairn islanders
was established few years ago, and where
| Bishop Patterson used to take his Milanesian
boys to school.
| An address has been presented by the Aus
tralian Wesleyan general conference to King
George, of Tonga, one of the Oldest converts
of the missions to the Friendly islands, pow
erful prince, who has given all his influence to
Christianity, and who himself labors in person
as a local preacher for its spread,
The English Baptist Missionary society i,
about to add six men to the force of its Congo
| (Africa) mission. One of the six has just
started for the field with one of the mission.
aries, who is returning. The two take with
them steel launch, which has been built for
the purpose, after plans by Mr.. Stanley.
| The Methodists and Presbyterians in ireland
are complaining that they do not have their
share of the magistrates, and show that while
the Episcopalians have one magistrate to 1872
members, the Presbyterlans have one to 4,215
members, the Roman Catholics one to SO, 1865
members, and the lMethodists none to 3,155
members.
| One of the Indian chiefs now in Washing
| ton, winked at the drug clerk when calling for
| soda water the other day. Such little evil
dences as this.should convince the most skep
tical that our missionary work among the red
| men is not without some marked results.
| Native instinct never taught the chieftain this
civilized trick.
A little Dubuque boy who had heard his
mother and father discussing the prospects of
| the presidents recovery, and had pOndered
over his mothers claim that if the president
| did get well it would be because all the minis
| tiers and Christian people had prayed for him
asked: mamma, is that why they call all the
| ministers reverend ioctors?'
In publishing the acts of the Mississippi
Legislature recently, the laws got slightly
mixed with parts of an anti-Baptist book that
was being set up by the same printer. The
following was the result "3e it enacted by
the senate and house of representatives of the
state of Mississippi that ban means to put un-
der the water, and tiSo means to take out"
The Church of Scotland mission committee
has instructed its agents at Blantyre, East
Africa, to teach their converts to respect the
laws of their country SO far as Christians
ought to do; not to set themselves up as judges
or rulers, but to hand offenders over to the
chiefs; to avoid interference with unobjection-
able native customs, and not to harbor fugi-
tive slaves.
In illustration of the taste of colored church
members in the southern states for the minis
far,oI 90 reer Prof Simmons of the T,Oulsyille