Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-23
wells shut ont from his view for brief intervals
the objects about him."

his wife. Mr.. Cross is an Englshman,
and soon after the death OF his
wife he returned to England, and
place his motherless children in the care of
his sisters. He recently came back to this
country and has just received and accepted a
call from the Germaine street Baptist church
in St. Johns, New Brunswick. Mr.. Cross was
educated at Nottingham, England, For elev-
en- years he was pastor of a church IN Coven-
try, England. In 1870 he came to this coun.
try and after supplying churches FIR some
time in the vicinity of New York and Brook
lyn, he became pastor of the First Baptist
church in this city. After the remaining here
five years, he became pastor of the Pilgrim
church in New York city. Mr.. Cross
is well remembered in St. Paul, and
carries with him to his new field OF labor the
hearty good wishes Of his brethren, who
have learned to appreciate him as pastor,
preacher and Christian gentleman.
Has christianity in any portion of the world
really gone to seed, and has it ceased
to bear appropriate fruit? Has
narrow bigotry, has senseless, souless formu-
las, in any measure, taken the place of COM
mon sense, not only, but of common humani-
ty and decency? Who can read, without in
tensest disgust statement like this: Re-
Gently the widow of a Wesleyan minister died
in Yorkshire; and it was the wish OF her
friends that her body should be laid beside that
of her husband in the consecrated portion OF
the parochial burial ground. The vicar placed
So many obstacles in the way, that the friends
of the deceased lady had to be content with a
grave in the unconsecrated portion OF the
cemetery. But even on the day of the funer-
al, as the party of mourners were about to
enter the burial ground by the ordinary gate,
| which 1t seems would have taken the process
sion over "consecrated ground,' they were
| warned away, and ordered to enter by "a
meaner door, for fear it should ''wound the
feelings of church people," And this ID
Christian England in the nineteenth century.
In 1877 writer gave the following descrip-
| ton of Longfellow's daily life: "He rises
early, takes comparatively light breakfast,
and, if the day is not RAINY, sets out for a
| walk, which takes up an hour or two, accord
| ing to his inclination. His gait is firm and
hearty, and as he walks he holds himself per-
fectly upright. He does not ramble two morn
ings in the same direction, but varies his
route daily. Every day or two he calls on his
printers, at the University Press, and receives
or returns proofs of his works if he has any
thing in type, which is mostly the case. He
studies his matter carefully after 1t is in print.
Little, if any, of his poetry published is writ
ten on the spur Of the moment. "The Divine
Tragedy" is said 10 have been rewritten after
it was nearly all in type During late years
he has been in the habit of publishing his
poems in the ms gaines, and after having OBJ
tanned sufficient number adding few new
ones to them. and issuing them in
book form, he then brings his
s'copy'' to the office of the University Press,
| which is only half mile or SO from his own
residence written in lead pencil, in small
back hand very much like the average news
paper mans style of handwriting, clear and
mostly free from interlineations and erasure.
His magazine poems are always revised and
corrected, or at least altered more or less, be-
fore their publication in book form, so that
the reader rarely encounters one in the same
shape as in the periodical.
An act of Parliament has been secured after
a long struggle, permitting deceased dis
seniors to be buried in parish church
yards. The law requires the rector
of the parish to make an entry of the burial
in the church record. A minister was recent
ly buried in the parish church yard at Shir-
land in DerbYshire, where the Rev. Joseph
Hall was rector. His peculiar conscience was
SO exceedingly tender, that he refused to make
the proper entry, but in order to evade the
duty, or in other words. to "whip the devil
around the stump he got a neighboring
rector whose conscience was of tougher fiber,
to make the required entry for him. Was not
this weak, silly and childish? But Mr.. Hall
was not permitted to enjoy in serenity, the
soothing, abnormal tenderness of his very
sensitive conscience. He was summoned be-
fore the court for his infraction OF the law,
and the Judge decided "that the defendant
sought to evade the law in a manner which
was not respectful to the court, and
directed that if a proper return was
Rot made in q week, attachment would
issue" So the rector was given week to
wrestle with his very tender and yet stubborn
conscience to decide whether he would obey
the law, or suffer arrest and the penalty of
| imprisonment for lis infraction. If the rector
held out, he undoubtedly went behind the
prison bars, and thus ''joined the noble army
of martyrs" and all for conscience sake-a
conscience exceedingly enlightened and re-
| ligiously estbetic,
An English lady gives an account of her
first and only sight of Lord Byron, when she
was child. She was at Florence, Italy, with
| her mother. They were boarding at the
same house with Shelley and his wife, Shelley
proposed to her mother to visit Pisa, where
Lord Byron was residing. She declined, say
ing her husband would be displeased if she
allowed any intimacy between her family and
Lord Byron's. The lady's narrative is as fol-
lows; Zone day Shelley told me Lord Byron
was coming next day to visit him. In vain
implored mamma to let me be with them
when the great poet came, but she would not
hear of it. / told Shelley this with tears
in my eyes, and he said: "Well, lit
tie woman, if mamma won't let you be in the
same room with the ogre, If you are very anx-
ious to see him, look through the keyhole,
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