Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-13
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.


Bishop McLaren and family are in New
Orleans.
Prof. Williams has resigned his chair in.
Williams to accept one in Princeton.
The Rev. R. L. Fox, of Burlington, N. j.,
has accepted the call of the Union Presbyterian
church in Detroit.
There is great JOY when doctor turns
religious. The church recognizes that it has
secured new pill-er.
A plumber who was about to die said: my
only regret at dying is because where am
going water pipes never freeze up"
1t is probable that the Rev. DIR. slicer, Of
Brooklyn, will be called to fill the pastorate
vacated by the death of DR.. Chaplin.
The Rev. John s. Inskip, the welI-known
Methodist evangelist, has arrived in India, and
will speedily begin his missionary labors.
Young clergyman at clerical meeting 81
"Well, think that is the best thing you can
do with it,"
curate in England, while marrying a
couple that came without the parents of the
bride, asked: "Who gives the woman away?''
when the would-be husband replied: "Nobody;
am taking her myself
'What is the meaning of a baek-biter?"
asked gentleman at Sunday school exam
nation. This was puzzler. 1t went down
the class until it came to simple urehin, who
said, "Perhaps it is fea."
In public school in ono of onr large cities
the other day, teacher asked the question:
"Who killed Goliah % For some minutes
no one answered, but finally small boy said
'Please, ma'am, it was Jack, the giant
killer.
The Rev. John Ross, of the Scottish United
Presbyterian mission in Manchurio, China,
has completed the translation of the New
Testament into the Corean, and already four
Coreans Of the literary class have been bap-
tsed
An old Scotch lady gave a pointed reply 10
minister who knew he had offended her, and
who expressed surprise that she should come
SO regularly to hear him preach. Said she:
"My quarrel's VII you, mon; it's no wiz the
gospel"
The Jesuits have in Belgium twelve colleges,
two Of which are in Antwerp, one in Client,
and one in Brussels. In these colleges there
were 5,106 students at the opening OF the
scholastic year, of whom 1862 are in tho
elementary classes.
The curates of st. Margaret's, Liverpool,
have all resigned to go as missionaries to In
dia, and Bishop Ryle has declined to license
their successors, on the ground that the parish
does not conform to the standards and usages
of the Church of England
Y. is a business man whose wheedling and
devout ways have till now hid his rascally
character. beware of him." one day said a
man to his friend, ''he's hypoerite and will
play you bad turn" How, such apious
mani His eyes are always lifted toward
heaven" eyes, but his hands,"
In the lower house of the eonvocation OF
Canterbury resolution has been introduced
referring to the evils existing in the church
on account of the traffic in liyings, and ask
ing the upper house to take the matter into
consideration and provide remedy.
The printing press which Mr.. Wheeler took
with him to Harpoot over year ago, and
which is run entirely by the students of Ar
menia college, has already printed more than
500, 600 pages, among them an arithmetic and
a hymn book in Koormantie Koordish.
"Do you know, young man, that cards arc
the DEVILS books?' asked solemn looking
parsonage to fellow who was shutting the
"papers." ooh, yes you shall have them,
sir, as soon as we have had our little game"
replied the young scapegrace, turning upa
jack.
Mr. Talmadge says that If he finds, when he
gets to heaven that at least 100000 souls
have not been saved through his instrumen-
tality, he will asked to be excused, and will
hastily retire. But what will this model man
do if he finds that heaven can't along without
him?
The Church Of the Advent, in Boston, is
extremely ritualistic. It's four ministers wear
cassoeks indoors and out, practice celibacy,
and live in house by themselves. The parish
is quite successful; the church has 500 com
municants, and new edifce is being com
pleted without debt.
The Rev. j. M. Lang, of Glasgow, Scotland,
thus writes of Chicago: "It is apparently one
of the most goddess of places-abandoned to
the love of the world and the things that arc
in the world-yet am assured that there is in
it the heart of most earnest and vigorous
Christianity" Somebody has been giving him
tafy
"The complaint is not so much that people
work on Sunday" says the circular of the
Chicago Sabbath association, "but that they
play. It is against sinful recreations that we
are moving" "The Puritans. !" said Macauley,
'hated bear batting not because it gave pain
to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to
the spectators"
A mother had taught her little girl to re-
peat, at Sabbath school concert, the text,
"Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the
waters!" When evening came, she very calm
ly, with perfect self-possession, said, "Eyefy
one that hoes, come and get drink Her
establishment was great when she saw the
laughter of the audience.
There is marble lamb on the tombstone Of
an old Galvestonian, and when Gilhooly saw it
for the first time he exclaimed Chow ap-
propriate Was he Of a gentle disposition {"
"Whew guess not He should shoot in
minute, but he always over-fed himself on
spring lamb and green peas. That's what
killed him, / reckon"