Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-01
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.
The Society of Friends in New York report
an increase of 90 mem hers in the last year.


an increase of 1919 members in the last year.
1t is reported that there are at present very
hopeful indications of religious awakenlngs
among the churches in Chicago.
Dr. Andrew Clark, celebrated physician of
London, says moderate drinking is potential
in exciting govt, heart disease, Bright's dis
ease and liver complaint.
Bishop Simpson, of the NJ. E. church, early
in December presided over the sessions OF the
Central Alabama Conference, held in the col
ored Methodist church, in Marion, Alabama.
Archbishop Colt is II years old. He is the
first Scotchman who has attained to the
Primary OF the English Church. He fills the
place once filed by Becht, and Cramer and
Land.
Sir Humphrey Davy Life is made up,
not of great sacrifices and duties, but of little
things, in which smiles and kindness and small
obligations, given habitually, are what win
and preserve the heart and secure comfort"
Anthony Burgess: AS Joab came with
kind salute to Abner and thrust him under the
fifth rib, while Abner thought of nothing but
kindness, so SIN comes smiling, comes pleas
ing and hunoring thee, while it giveth thee
deadly stab.
Rev. DR.. John Hall states the difference be-
tween the religious aspects of England and
this country thus "In England the people
are divided into Churchmen and Dissenters;
in America they are divided into Churchmen
and Absenters.'
The several pastors of the Methodist, Con-
gregational and Presbyterian churches in
Stanford, Connecticut, preached sermons on
the death of President Garfield, These ser
mons have all been published in one pamphlet
making a fitting tribute to the memory of the
illustrious dead.
Ruskin: There's no music in "rest'' that
I know of, but there's the making of music in
it. And people are always missing that part
of the life melody, always talking of persever-
ance, and courage and fortitude; but patience
is the finest and worthiest part of forttude,
and the rarest, too.
Rev. Oliver s. Taylor, of Auburn, N. Y,
completed his 9th year the 18th of last month.
He remembers the adoption of the federal con-
stitution, and the first Inauguration of Gen.
Washington, or he heard those events talked
of at the time when he was years old. He
recently walked mile in fifteen minutes.
The Protestant Episcopal Church Almanac
for 1882 gives the following statistics:
Clergy. 1896; Observation-Disclosures, 1856;
priests, l12; churches consccrated, Is; bap-
tisms, 42,519; combinations, 23,967; COM
municants, 342,59O; marriages, 11,S75; buri-
ais, 22,519; Sunday school teachers, 29,56S;
scholars, 2S5 1856; contributions, Sc, 749, 04s.2O
The gain for the year was 64, in communi-
Giants, 4,157.
A silver plate inscribed with a fac smile
signature OF President Garfield, and the dates
of his birth and death, mas been placed on the
pew occupied by him in the Christian church
at Washington. The pew is not to be occu-
pied in the future, but will remain draped and
be known as the Garfield memorial pew. 1t
would be more in harmony with the wishes
and judgment of the late president to have his
pew in church always filled.
A missionary visiting from Horpoot, Tur-
key, gives an interesting account Of the build
ing of chapels, or small church structures in
that region. In two of the out-stations,
Gormuri and Shuntil, chapel in each village
was recently dedicated, causing much rejoic-
ing among the laborers in that region. The
two above named villages are within three
miles Of the large village of Hood, where
there is fourishing church.
Bishop Merrill, of the Methodist church,
has been studying the Mormons on their own
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vilest of caricatures on religion, one of the
fouest denominations that now exist in the
world, one of the most terrible impositions
ever practised on man or woman, one of the
most wicked receptions ever imposed upon
people abroad, and one of the worst "systems"
that ever got foothold in our country.
1t is reported that the temperance issue is
making real progress in England, as much
among the higher classes as among those who
have been degraded by drink. The Church of
England Temperance society has done good
work. Several temperance mayors have been
reelected In England. The new lord mayor
of York. on being indicted into office made a
strong temperance speech and said for twenty
years he had been total abstainer.
One of the churches in San Francisco has
lately been exercised by a sharp trouble in
volving diverse views on some doctrinal
points, involving conserving vital principles.
The Alto Californian, referring to the dis
putes, remarks. with equal justice and force:
GA church that does not heartily and wholly
believe in and uphold its own proclaimed doc
trine, is a church without soul. If Christi
anity has any merit, it is the merit of truth,
unbending and unyielding. If it has not then
| it is hollow sham.
The New York Nation gives the following
salient home thrust, which is certainly more
truthful than visionary: "There is really no
high and stern morality in the marriage ques-
ton, in political circles at least, to draw on
for the extirpation of the Mormon infquity.
The men in Congress who thunder against
polygamy, and the law officers who go out to
punish it, and demand fresh, vague, and eX-
traordinary powers for the purpose, are not as
full as they might be of horror of matrimo-
NAL laxity. This does not excuse polygamy,
or make it any more tolerable; but it goes a
good way to explain why the attacks on it are
not more successful
Puritan bigotries crops out every now and
then in New England. In a Connecticut pub