Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-21
SUNDAY GLOBLETs.

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at Clyde, O., has left the ministry and mar
ried.
Ruth, although of retiring disposition
succeeded as a eleanor in getting as good s
Boaz as any of them.
The Rev. Thomas Gordon, of 6ellaire, o.
Church of Alton, III.
The Rev. N. A. Reed, D. D., of Amboy
H., has accepted the call of the Baptist
church at Sandwich, III.
The characters in the old plantation melo.
dies were quite devotional. A great many
people have seen poor Lucy Neal.
The Rev. B. F. fleetwood, of St. Marks
Episcopal church, Chicago, has returned from
his vacation and resumed his ministerial du-
ties.
More than four hundred of the six hundred
ministers of the Irish Presbyterian church
have petitioned the government in favor OF
the land bill.
At meeting of the Congregational Assocl-
alton OF Maine, majority of its members de-
clared against ordaining to the ministry men
who use tobacco.
A city missionary was asked the cause OF
his poverty. principally" said he, with a
twinkle of the eye, "because have preached
so much without notes."
The Rev. Newman Smyth, D. D., now pastor
of the First Presbyterian church, Quincy, ILL.,,
has been called to the department of mental
philosophy in Bowdoin college.
The Rev. WilliamsR. Alger, who has been
serving the Park street Universalist Church,
Portland, Me-, for six months on trial, has
accepted the permanent pastorate.
The Je1cish Messenger says: "For want OF
synagogue at this resort Saratoga Springs,
many of the Jewish visitors went to the races
on Saturday last, including a prominent rab-
BIZ"
The Rev. B. E. S. Ely was installed pastor
of the Presbyterian church at Ottumwa, Ia,
July 81 The Rev. DIR. T. D. Ewing, president
of Parsons college, delivered the charge to the
pastor.
There is field for unemployed clergymen
of the Protestant Episcopal church in Texas.
A few unmarried men, fond of work on slim
salary, are invited to correspond with Bishop
Gregg at Austin.
A minister had preached an hour; then he
remarked: Another wide field opens from the
subject in another direction" Just then an
old colored saint calculated: please, Lord,
shut up de bars"
A memorial is to be erected to the late Rev.
DR.. E. H. Chaplin, of New York. It will take
the form of decoration of the Church Of the
Divine Paternity, and will cost, with stained
glass windows, about $50, 600.
It was hard on the retiring pastor of
country congregation whose congregation
had passed a series of fulsome resolutions
about him, when the local paper printed sin
ebriated zeal' instead Of ''unabated ZEAL"
The church of St. Mary-by-the-Sea, Eplsco-
pal, at Point Pleasant, n. j., was consecrated
last week by Bishop Scarborough, assisted by
Bishop McLaren, of this city. The sermon
was preached by the Rev. DR.. Hill, the Rector.
The Methodist American mission in Italy
now occupies fifteen towns and has 1000
church members. It has been organized into
an annual conference, one Of the 100 confer
the presiding elder.
The vestry of Grace church, Jamaica, L. l.,
has in its possession a silver chalice with
paten, which was presented to the church by
the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
in 1904. 1t has been in constant use from that
date to the present time.
The Rev. Phillips Brooks, in one of his Yale
lectures On "Preaching," tells story OF back
woodman who, after hearing an extemperane
Gus sermon from Bishop Meade, remarked,
"He is the first of them petticoat fellows that
have ever seen who can shoot without
rest"
The Baptist church of Little Falls, n. Y,
recently held what they called "public jubil-
alton" The ground for rejoicing was that
the mortgages and other debts amounting to
$1,000 had been paid. The Cancelled evidences
of Indebtedness were publicly burned by Pas
tor Bellamy.
The sales of the Moody and sankey hymn
books, which are called by the name of "Gos.
pei Hymns amount to 1887, 600 copies.
This includes three books, all similar in ap-
pearance and style, but with different contents.
"Gospel Hymns, Number one," has had by
far the largest sale.
One of the evidences of the power of the
gospel upon heather savages is seen in Tapi
tenae, one of the Gilbert Islands, where the
people have gathered and burned all their
weapons of war, have passed prohibitory liquor
laws and imposed heavy fines on those guilty
of Sunday labor or dissertation.
The Burlington Havkeye davotes half col
umn to Scriptural questions from the Haavk-
eye pulpit in favor of funny men, and ends as
follows: "The service is closed for this dav,
and the deacons with the baskets will strike
the back members in the gallery for their sub
scriptions before they get down stairs"
Two Mexican elders, Senior Rodriguez and
Senior Chacom, have been examined and
licensed by the Presbytery of Pueblo to preach
the gospel. The examination was conducted
through an Interpreter. They passed severe
examination on the evidences of their CONVEX
sion, personal piety, knowledge of the scrip
lures and of all the leading doctrines of grace,
particularly justification by faith. They will
now engage in the work of etangelizing their
fellow Mexicans tf'
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