Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-24
SUNDAY GLOBELErs.

The church of England has raised S2S,OOe,-
GOO during the past nine years for educational
purposes.
The general assembly of the Presbyterian
church south will be held in Staunton, Va,
May 10TH
Ex-senator Revels is presiding elder of
mississippi conference end is actively engaged
in pulpit work.
klng Alfonso and wife recently presented to
the Pope chalice mounted with $4,000
worth of precious stones.
The Rev. W. d. Grannis, of Goshen. N. ".
recently died of smallpox in Cuba, whittier
he had gone for recuperatlon
Bishop Fabre, of Montreal, has condemned
the practice of swearing Roman Catholic wit
nesses on Protestant bibles as sin.
Prof. Van Poezi, an old Catholic, has become
reconci led to the vatican. The professor holds
a chair in the university of Munich.
A Baptist convention will be held in Indian-
apolis May Goth to discuss the feasibility of
holding in the near future PAN Baptist coun-
ell.
Talmage says that ''the most difficult thing
in the ministry is TO persuade people that now
is the time to repent and be reconciled to
God"
Brown says his minister takes his texts from
the bible, but he can't tell what the parson
does with them. They never get into his
sermons.
Sixteen missionary, bible, and tract societies
have been invited to participate in the mission
airy conference to be held in Constantinop}e,
June 1st.
The sixty annual session of the general
convention OF the Church of the New Jerusa-
lem will be held in Washington, D. c., begin
ming May 20.
Freddie has got the idea of Christian. he
says he feels like one when he is willing to
play boss all day with his little brother, and be
boss all the time.
The opponents of organ music in Presby-
terrain church in Toronto stopped its notes
effectually by pouring hot glue into the pipes
and upon the keys.
William Bucknell has given the American
Baptist Publication society $4,000. and annual
interest of which is to be applied to the aid o.
needy Sunday schools.
"No, I thank you; neveruse one / don't
chew" said Jones to the deacon with the con-
tribution box. Jones thinks they are getting
awfully polite in that church.
The revival in the Methodist church in Mer-
iden, Conn.,, lasting fifteen weeks, has resulted
in $50 conversions. OF the converts 400 have
Joined the Methodist church.
During 1880 the Methodists of this country
raised $13 $3.50, 600 for benevolent, congrega-
tional and missionary purposes-an annual
contribution of IS per member.
The Moody and SankeY revival in San Fran
cisco has resulted in the conversion of 2,008
souls, all of whom have become members Of
the different Evangelical churches.
The New York Methodists contemplate
building an uptown church to cost SOC, 600,
and it is thought that DR.. Newman, formerly
of Washington, will be chosen pastor.
For thirty years DIR. Howard Crosby has
been studying the habits and nationality Of
street beggars in New York. He failed 10 dis
cover among them native American.
The senate and house of.deputies of Brazil
have passed article 8 of the reform of the con-
stitntion, giving Protestants the same civil
and political rights as Catholics enjoy.
The faculty of the university of Aberdeen
recently refused to fellowship with the Rev.
D. Cunningham on account of his connection
with the "Heterodoxn volume of "Scotch Ser
mons"
When we read over the programme of .
" sacred concert" we can appreciate the feel
ings of the devil. 1t is hardly treating him
right to thus steal all his best tunes for Sun
day use.
Blsmarck's physician has forbidden him TO
attend church, saying that he must devote all
of Sunday to rest That physician is overrun
with practice, and is far on the high road to
affluence.
The stipends paid English curates vary from
next to nothing to 81, 500 year. Thirty-two
receive $500; seventy-eighth, $500; twenty-five,
81 900. Four assistant curates receive $3.50 a
year, and 214 nominal sum.
The bishop of Bangor, Wales, has an eclesi-
astical fight on his hands He undertook to
lay aside the rector of Llandegfan and install
curate. The former locked the church and told
the bishop to help himself if he can.
Capt. George 8. Railton, OF the salvation
army, has returned to England. Ten perma-
nent ''posts'' have been established in this
country, managed by about sixteen "officers,"
who are assisted by voluntary workers.
Missionaries are honest and good men, but it
is kind of suspected that they started the re-
port now current in the Cannibal Islands, that
an entire tribe of Cannibal has died from the
effects of trichine after eating an Ameri-
can.
"Little baby is very i'll, Charley; am afraid
he is going to die" dwell, if he dies,
mamma, he won't go to the bad place"
"Why, Charley, how can you know that?'
ooh, l know he can't, mamma; he's got no
teeth to gnash."
The clergy list of the Church of England
contains upward of $4,000 names. Those in
pastoral service number only 1870. Of these
H. 1856 are incumbents resident, 1900 incum-
bents nonresident, 3S7 curates in charge, and
4,SSS assistant curates.
The late Mrs. E. j. Wallingford, Of Pitts
burgh, left $1,000 each to the Presbyterian
board of foreign missions, the board of home
missions, the board of education, and the board
of relief. Smaller amounts were bequeatbed
to other church objects.
The Rev. Morgan Dix, D. D., denies that