Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-25
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.

luere are Or DapIiSI cnurcuco III ocAsA-
Carolina, with membership of 5S,217. There
were 9,079 baptisms last year and net gain OF
3,076 members.
To be poor is hard; to be old and poor is
very hard. To be homeless when weary with
years is sad, and often begets the desire to lie
down and be at rest.
According to the Catholic Reuielc there are
in China forty-one Roman Catholic Bishops
664 European, and $50 native priests, thirty
four colleges, thrty-four converts and 1922
SIS worshippers.
A correspondent, writing from Dakota ter
ritory, mentions the case of a feeble church,
hitherto depending on home missionary aid
which has nobly taken up the work of sus-
tanning its own religious privileges without
help from abroad.
Miss Catherine L. Wolfe, lady well known
for the munifcence of her charities, has SUBJ
scribed $4,000 for the new Episcopal memo-
rial chapel to Bishop Berkely, at Newport, r.
l., and Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt is also lib
eral subscriber. The building is to cost
100000
In 1873 a public coffee house was estab-
lished IN London for the purpose eff checking
intemperance, and to-day there are over 160
such enterprises in England, mostly in Lon
don. They receive the hearty praise Of the
church and the substantial aid of the respect
able classes
The Rev. Henry C. McCook, the eminenL
naturalist and pastor of the Tabernacle Bap-
fist church, in Philadelphia, has sailed for
four months vacation in Europe. His health
has been failing through overwork, and his
congregation insisted upon sending him ON q
foreign journey.
The Lutheran Visitor calls for an ECU
menical council. 1t believes that such body
would be, perhaps, one of the greatest meet
I'M s ever held, and asserts that, instead of
few million of Calvlnists or Armnians, it
would represent fifty millions of Lutherans
rom all quarters of the globe.
The members of the Tasmanian houSe Of
assembly have adopted memorial to the
queen on the subject of marriage with de-
ceased wife's sister, praying her majesty to re-
move all doubts as to the legality of such
marriages in all parts of the British dominion,
as was done in Tasmania in 1873
Some of the Danes living in LeadUle belong
to religious body called Stages, who, centu-
ries ago, paacticed human sacrifice, and still
hold to it in theory. The Leadyille colony
lately met on an anniversary occasion, and as
a part of the rites, their leader cut himself in
the arm, shedding bowlful of sacrificial
blood.
1t is charged that the clergy of the Church
of England draw large sums from those who
erect tOmbstones in the churchyards. The
Vicar of Croydon levies fee of e1 Is for
every tombstone erected in the consecrated
part of the cemetery, and derives from. the
cemetery an income of from e., 900 to $4,000
a year.
Women in politics are represented by Miss
Helen Taylor, the step-daughter of John
Stuart Mill, woman who commands tho
breathless attention of 5000 or 1900 work.
lngmen when expounding the moral OBJ
legations of capital, and at recent meet
ing she called Mr.. Gladstone ga bastard and a
ecreant.''
The oath required of members Of the South
Carolina legislature by the anti-duelling act
was administered for the first time to new
member, who, in addition to the obligation
usually taken, was required to swear that he
had not been engaged in duel, either as prin.
cipal or second, since January 5, 1851, nor
would hereafter become SO engaged.
Baron Blanc, formerly italian minister to
the United States, has telegraphed to the
Italian consul in New York that the identity
Of the Italian brigand Randazzo, or Ex-
posito, who was surrendered by the United
States authorities under the extradtion tree
ty, has been established and that an impor-
tant service has been rendered TO the cause of
Justice.
The Archbishop'of York having refused to
present petition, signed by 1000 persons,
asking the queen to release the Rev. s. F.
Green from imprisonmen emit, His Grace of Cam
terbury has promised to perform that office.
Archbishop Thompson refused to present the
petition because Mr.. Green, in a published
letter, had stated that he did not wish any of
his help.
The Rev. DR.. Samuel Green has been an
pointed to the secretaryship of the London
Religious Tract society, vacant. by the death
OF the late Rev. DR.. Manning. DR.. Green's
connection with The editorial work of the So
ciety for several years, and his general'charac-
ter and requirements, mark him as a yerv
suitable successor to the office upon which he
now enters.
A young minister one Sabbath afternoon
was going to poorhouse to preach to the
inmates. Said he to an older minister, 7 am
going to preach from the words, 'sThe Door
have the gospel preached unto them;'' what
do you think of that for text Said the
elder minister, 81 think ii hard enough to be
poor without being twitted about it.n The
young clergyman changed his theme and his
text.
When the late W. S. Plumer, d. D., was suf
fering extremely from surgical operation
that resulted fatally on account of his age and
infrmties, his will was SO fully and sweetlv
sunk into the divine that he uttered, as his
own experience, the following strong express
sions: "There can be no hell TO one whose
will is lost in Gods will If he suffered a
thousand torments he is happy because it is
Gods will''
Mr.. Canning, prime minister OF England.
had brilliant company of distinguished
people in his house one evening, when sudden