Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-27
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.

churches of Toledo.
The Rev. Heber Newton, of New York, has
twice declined call to the rectorship OF ST.
Johns church, Troy
The Rev. w. A. Leonard, of Brooklyn, has
been elected rector of St. Johns Episcopal
church, Washington.
The Rev. I. F. Fortney, of Alstead, N. H.,
he's accepted call to the Uniyersalist church
of West Concord, VT
The Rev. D. Cantwel has accepted the
pastoral charge Of the Uniyersalist church IN
North Attleboro, Mass.
The Quakers in England are not averse to
the ordinance of baptism as visible evidence
of spiri tual regeneration.
Sturgeon spent three years at the Cambridge
university. Being Nonconformist he could
not have obtained degree.
A correspondent of the Examiner says that,
outside of Baltimore, there is not a self-sus-
tanning Baptist church in Maryland.
The Rev. Jonathan Edwards, of Danville,
Ky, has been called to the passionate of the
Seventh Presbyterian church, Cincinnati.
Be thankful that you are poor. You will
not have the trouble of crawling from under a
heavy monument on the resurrection morn
ing.
An Indian church has got the first church
bell in Clam county, Washington Territory,
which has been settled by whites for twenty
years.
An eccentric but pious man has built
house on posts forty feet high in Plymouth,
Ore, in order that he may live "nearer to
heaven
The Roman Catholic church in the United
States lost last year by death one bishop-Dr.
Pellicer, of San Antrnio-and eighty-fve
priests.
An editor, the day after experiencing re-
ligion, wrote: ''The storm last Wednesday
caused great d-age in H-ertown, Pa. A man
named G-dfrey was dangerously injured"
The physicians having prescribed tenn
porary rest for the Rev. j. NJ. Stevens, as
taken vacation which will be spent in the
South.
The report of the Independent Catholic
church for 1880, states that during the year
over 800 converts from the Roman church
We're received into the Independent COM
munion.
The Rev. Henry T. Kingdom, of England, has
been elected assistant bishop of the Episcopal
diocese of Fredericton, Nova Scotia. The
bishop of the diocese, DIR. Medley, is metro
politan of Canada
The daughters of the late Dr. Plumer, of the
Southern Presbyterian church, have declined
to accept the memorial fund which the friends
and admirers of their father proposed to raise
for them and their families.
The Free Presbytery Of Aberdeen has adopt
ed a motion, by a majority of one, for the
transmission of an overture to the general as
sembly censuring the commission for suspend
ing Prof. Robertson Smith.
The vicar of Stratford- on-Ayon having
caused the ground in the vicinity of Shaks-
peare's tomb to be disturbed, it is suggested
that the remains of the poet should be trans
ferred to Westminster Abbey.
The Baptists have ninety one ordained min
listers in New Hampshire and 9,077 members.
They organized two churches the past year,
received 1853 members by baptism, and lost ex-
actly the same number by death.
It is proposed to apply the surplus which
will remain after the expenses Of the recent
Presbyterian council in Philadelphia are paid
to the fund for the increase of the salaries of
the Waldenstan pastors in Italy.
The Moravians in the northern province of
the United States gave s5,173 last year for
foreign missions, being the largest sum re-
ported for many years. The annual average
OF gifts from 1868 to 1877 was S2,757.
The new hymn-book of the Methodist church
Of Canada contains nine hundred and thirty
etc It is expected to be in use throughout
the church in the next three months.
The Roman Catholic mission in Ceylon gain.
ed last year 100 converts from heathenism,
and IA from other denominations. Upward
Of 5000 persons were admitted to confirma-
ton. In the various schools were - ,461 pu-
pills.
The Roman Catholic society for the propa-
CATION of the faith received 81 100000 in 1870
Or this France gave 1882, 900: Germany, $780,
coo; Belgium, $4,000; Italy, $4,000; Ireland,
S19,5Oo; England, $4,000; and the United
States, 81, 100.
A Galveston widow is about to marry her
fifth husband. Her pastor rebuked her for
contemplating matrimony so soon again.
"Well, just want you to understand if the
Lord keeps on taking them I will, too,' was
the spirited reply.
Three years ago there was only one church
OF the Presbyterian name, with nine members,
in all southeastern Dakota. Now, in one
county, Moody, there are fourteen churches,
ten ordained ministers, and four church build
ings in process of erection.
The Very Rev. Pacifco A. Memo, who has