Daily globe., 1881-01-16
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.

peared in Constantinople.
What should a clergyman preach about?
About quarter of an hour.
Missionaries are said to be overwhelmed
with gifts OF patent medicines for the heather.
The Brazilian senate has passed bill max
ing protestants eligible to seats in the cham
bers.
The announcement is made that no more
money is needed to entow the Howard divinity
school.
Martyrs in masquerade is what Sir Will
frid Lawson calls the imprisoned rituaists in
England.
A hollow tree on Puget sound has been cut
off forty feet from the ground, and made into
church.
M. Reveillaud and NJ. Dodds have returned
TO France, carrying with them about $4,000
raised for evangelization in France
DIR. Cotton, provost of Worcester college,
England, and member of the Evangelical
party, died recently aged eighty-sx
The Rev. A E. Dunnsg, of Boston, has ac-
cepted the appointment as Sunday school Sec
retary of the Congregational publishing So
ciety.
The celebrated Dr. Pusey contemplates se
ries OF lectures at the University of Oxford, on
the prophetic Psalms and Other Prophecies
of Christi
The Congregational church in Salt Lake
City, Utah, recently received fifty-fve
persons to membership, of whom fifty united
on confession of faith.
Canon Basil Wilberforce, son of Bishop Will
berforce, is delivering series of lectures
against the doctrine ofeyerlasting punishment
He opposes annihlation in the fourth lecture
Mr.. Kimball recently succeeded in raising
$4,000 to pay debt of s27 900 on the United
Presbyterian church, Newburg, n. Y. 1t was
thought that the balance could be readily
raised.
The Tree Presbytery of Glasgow, after a
| long discussion, has voted not to condemn the
action ofthe commission of the assembly sus-
| pending Prof. Robertson Smith The vote was
| SO to so.
| The Parker Memorial hall, Boston, erected
| to commemorate Theodore Parker, has been
sold for $4,000, and the society which has
been worshiping in it cease to hold regular
| services after March l.
Dean Stanley has just completed his sixty
fifth year, receiving on the occasion the con-
gratulaiions of his numerous friends, and of
royalty itself. He has been Dean of West
minister seventeen years.
| 1t is reported that the statistics OF the Re-
formed Episcopal church show greater addi-
tion to its membership during the past year
than in any preceding one, not excepting the
first year of its organization.
1t is said that &c, 900 out of 10000 townships
OF France are open to evangelical preaching.
A Catholic priest recently complained that he
could not go anywhere in France without see
ing bibles and Protestant tracts.
Two Catholic missionaries, the Rev. Messrs.
Describes and Merlini, are in this country to
raise money for their missions among the Hot
tentots, and in Dahomey, described as the most
difficult mission-felds in the world.
The war against the ritualistic priests in
England still continues. The Rev. C. B. De Ia
Bere, Vicar of Prestburg, has been suspended
from the functions of his Office for disobeying
the orders of Lord Penzance's court
"The first man was duped; the first woman
deceived her husband; and the first child turned
out murderer. Such were the origins of hui
manity, and yet people affect TO be surprised
that the world IS no better than 1t is"
1t kind of took fellow down to go to
church last Sunday, and, after fourishing
about Christmas handkerchief for some time,
to discover label on the corner of it bearing
the legend: $3.50. Warranted fast colors."
The Rev, j. D. Mcmillan has been commits
stoned superintendent of Presbyterian mis-
sions for Utah and Montana. he was former
ly missionary to the Mormons, and was pub
licly cursed by Brigham Young and his twelve
apostles.
The Rev. Page Wood and the Rev. Mr.. Hun
ter, two of DIR. Colenso's clergy, have seeded
from the "Church of England" as represented
by DR.. Colenso, Dean Williams, and Archdea-
con Colley, ana have Joined the ''Church Of
South Africa"
| The Portland Street Baptist church in Haver
hill. Mass, has unanimously refused to accept
the resignation of its pastor, the Rev. w. T.
Burns, who was called to the First church in
Lynn. Now it will be seen which church will
pull the hardest
Statistics of the Congregational churches
and ministry, just published, show that 1O5
churches have been formed the past year, 2O5
ministers ordained or installed, seventy pastors
dismissed, forty-seven ministers married, and
seventy-six deceased.
A curious and interesting tablet has been
| found in Sheus Province, China, whose in
scription shows that Christianity was intro
duced into China A. D. 636, and sanctioned by
imperial decree in the year 639. The tablet
| was erected A. d. 731.
| The new American church in Paris will be
situated on the Avenue de Palma, and will be
built under the supervision of George E.
Street, an English architect. The building
will be of the carly decorated Gothic order,
and will seat l 900 people.
Not all the civil officers in Russia are I'M
friendly to the Jews. The new governor of
Kowno, on assuming Office, sent for the rab-
bi of the Jewish congregation, assured him
of his goodwill, and gave him a sum of
| money for charitable purposes.
| A Young Japanese gentleman, Mr. Sonoski