Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-27
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.

year IN indianapolis, IN May
\ donation of s50,O0Ois offered to Lewis
burg (Baptist) university, provided its friends
raise $4,000 in addition.
Fung Chah, Baptist missionary and teacher
is making great success of his work among
the Chinese in Portland, Oregon.
Louis Strauss, a wealthy Hebrew of San
Francisco, has left large requests to Protestant
and Catholic as well as Hebrew institutions.
The Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead, D. D., OF
Bethlehem, is called to become rector OF the
Protestant Episcopal cathedral at Buffalo,
NY
DR.. J. 4. Broadus, of the Southern Baptist
Theological seminary, has obtained subscrlp-
tions to the amount OF $4,000 for that semi
nary.
The Rev. Frederic NJ. Bird has accepted the
profossorship of psychology, Christian evil
dence and rhetoric at Lehigh university, South
Bethlehem, Pa.
The colored Baptists of Baltimore are re-
joicing in the dedication of their new church
on the corner of Caroline and McElderry
streets. It cost $4,000.
There are in Syria, after many years of hard
labor, only about 1900 communicates IN the
various mission churches. The congregations
average about 4, 800 in all.
President Strong is making an effort to add
100000 TO the invested funds Of Rochester
(Blptis) Theological seminary. About two
thirds of the amount has already been Sc
cured.
The number of persons IN full communion
in the Presbyterian church in the United States
of America in 1880, as reported to the general
assembly of that year, was 173, 1929; the num-
Der reported in 1880 was 576,6S1. The in
crease is more than threefold.
At the last social gathering in Boyiston
chapel of the Pensioners of Harvard church,
Charlestown, was presented to the society a
portrait of the Rev. DR.. George E. Ellis, who
was their pastor from 1910 to 1869.
The Rev. R. NJ. Thompson, formerly Con
gregataonal pastor in Cincinnati, Sheboygan,
Wis, and Ottumwa, Iowa, has recently be-
come Baptist and is soon to be reordained at
MadisonYille, Ohio, by u conference called for
the purpose
1t is stated that the English Church union
have resolved to appeal from the judgment of
the lords justices of appeal in the Enraght case
to the house of lords. The hearing of the
Mackonoche appeal has commenced in the
house of lords.
Grandmamma's home is always q sort of
paradise to the little ones AID it is easy to ap-
preciate the earnestncsS with which little
Johnnie said, on his return from feast upon
grandma's goodies: go, l am so sorry for
God, cause he's got no grandma"
AS there is little chance for revivals at the
seaside in summer, when busin SIS is brisk, the
Reformed church at Long Branch is having its
revival now. Special meetings have been held
for two or three weeks, and a number of con-
versions are reported from among the residents.
A clergyman's daughter at Napa, Cal, went
to 4 circus. On the following Sunday her
father preached on sinful amusements, and
used her case as an Illustration. In the Sun |
day school that afternoon he said that she was |
impcnitent and moved her expulsion, but q
vote being taken, all the pupils voted to retain |
her.
The American Sunday School Union asks |
for money to supplement the African fund es- |
tablished by the late Elliott Cresson, the in |
come OF which was to be expended in sending |
Sunday school books to the colored folks in |
Liberia. Mr.. Cresson's original donation was |
81, 600, which was securely and prolitably in |
vested.
A newspaper directed to Ellis Satanic Ma |
jjesty, He'll, Below China fell into the hands |
of the mail agent on the Salem Branch rail |
road, Virginia, the other day, Being puzzled |
as to what disposition he should make of the
paper, he referred the matter to the postmaster |
at Salem, who settled the matter by saying: |
"All foreign mail matter goes north"
To tear down the venerable old Church of |
the Redeemer, near Hartford station, Pa, Is |
objected to by many of the neighbors on the |
ground that the hallowed associations with |
the ivy. grown structure are such that it |
ought to be allowed to stand. The project is |
touse the stones in the old building as ma |
terial for the construction of new one.
The Shuttle family were quietly enjoying |
the Sunday afternoon dinner Job, my DEAR" |
said his wife, wreathed in smiles, II wish you |
had been at church this morning. Mr.. Good |
will was very interesting; and when he prayed |
for the absent Ones''-"WelI, that accounts |
for it, then. l haven't caught such string |
of fish for a year as did this morning"
4 Catholic mother once showed her child a |
beautiful doll-a ST. John of an exquisite rose |
color. "See," she said, che has been very
good, and heaven always rewards the good by |
making them beautiful" "Oh," says the |
child, lifting its shoulders, "don't believe that
mamma. This little St. John looks very meek |
because he's all glued up, but if he could
only move, you'd seeln
The representative Of Russia at the Vatican
is in the first place to be an envoy endowed
with fun powers tor resolving the pending
questions relating to the church in Poland;
and it is only when this mission will have been
accomplished that the temporary envoy will
be succeeded by NJ. Malanotf, whose perma-
nent post in Rome will be that of a represen-