Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-12


ground both as regards numbers and effective
ness. There was great want of revival work
The efforts that were being made were not at
tended with successful results. the
| speaker said he had been sur
prised in his travels at the
number of Presbyterian ladies whom he had
met who held skes. ical views, and who, upon
being questioned, admitted that they first en-
tertained these Views while living in Chicago.
The report urged the formation among the
clergymen and laity of band of workers who
should endeavor to inaugurate revival and
recover lost ground. .>Are not churches in
other cities and of various denominations, like
the Presbyterian churches in Chicago, too lit
| tie aggressive, too little influential and too
lukewarm in the Masters service. A question
worthy of consideration.
THE Warrenton (Va.) Solid Soath says: "a
number of reliable and responsible people,
whose names we can give, abouta week ago saw
an apparition in the heavens which were sup
posed by those who saw them to be angels.
1t is all the talk of the people in and around
the villages Of New Baltimore and Bucklana."
The Richmond Despatch says: .Many per-
SONS in this community claim to have wit
messed a most alarming sight in the heavens
some nights since, inst before daybreak. The
heavens were lighted, and vast numbers of
soldiers appeared, uniformed armed and drill
ling. Who else saw it, and what is the expla-
nation? Could it have been amirage?" simi-
lar observations were made further north. A
Wilmington (Del) dispatch says: 1.-THE peo-
pie in this vicinity are greatly excited over
| what they believe to be supernatural manifest
| ations A little girl some three weeks ago,
living in the village, saw after nightfall, be-
fore the moon was fairly up above the horizon,
platoons of angels slowly marching and coun-
termarching to and fro in the clouds, their
white robes and helmets glistening in the light.
AtintervaIs the heavenly visitors would dance
mournfuliy. Her father also saw the spectacle.
Monday night two weeks ago William West, a
farmer living near Georgetown, saw bands of
soldiers of great size equipped in dazzling uni
| forms, their muskets shimmering in the pale,
weird light that seemed to be everywhere,
marching with military precision up and down
and presenting arms. The vision lasted long
| enough to be seen by number of the neigh
bors. Many people living near Laurel, many
miles away, saw the same extraordinary phe-
nomera. In Talbot county the illusion was
seen by numbers.
! The Boston Daily Herald, secular Protest
ant journal, has the following impartial
and generous notice of distinguished Cath
Ole bishop, lately deceased: The Roman
Catholic church loses, IN the death Of
Bishop Lynch, of South Carolina, one of
its most distinguished prelates and one of
its best men. An American by birth and edu-
cation, and always an American in sentiment
and spirit, the late bishop had that liberal and
versatile mind which made him the man first
| and the ecclesiastic afterward. He was one Of
the best known and most honored men in the
state which constituted his diocese, and Illus
| trated in his life the virtues which belong to
the best type of an American citizen--integrity,
self-help, industry and discursive, yet
thorough, studies. Succeeding Bishop Rey-
| nolds in 1855, he became bishop of Charleston
in 1858, and gave his whole strength to the
| diocese in which he had lived from his youth.
The civ war swept away nearly all the insti-
buttons Of the Roman, as it did those of the
other religious bodies in Charleston, and left
Bishop Lynch responsible for over $4,000 of
debt already incurred in building the cathe-
dral and in other diocesan work. At the time
of his death this noble prelate had raised and
paid off, chiefly by personal effort, all but
| Sis, COO of this vast sum. There was not bit
of the blood of repudiationist in his veins,
and though the gigantic effort is said to have
| shortened his life and compelled him to de-
cline an archibishopric, it has given his peo-
pie and the Roman communion brilliant ex-
| ample of what the highest individual charac-
ter may accomplish in the person of its trusted
leaders. He was not unlike the first Roman
bishop of Boston, Cardinal Cheverus, the
| friend of Claiming, who laid the foundations
| of the first Roman Cathedral in this city, and
| the sancity and beauty of whose char acter are
one of the pleasantist traditions of the Roman
| church in New England, in his modesty, in
the self-denial of his life, in his care for his
the high spirit in which he discharged his du-
ties as an American citizen.
! JOHN b. Tough, IN MS lately puOil6neu
new book entitled Sunlight and Shadow
has some racy criticisms on the modern
Church of Christ and its secularization.
He says: ''Jesus Christ said to his
disciples, 81 have chosen you out of the world. %
We seem to be ignoring that; and ask what
amusement or persuit is there followed by the
| unbeliever that is not followed or defended by
some Christians? Cards, dancing, theater,
operas, wine and liquor drinking, gambling,
oil these are patronized and defended by some
| who are members of Christ's body-the
church." Perhaps the church, OF at least a
| large factor of its membership, is becoming
more liberal and less scriptural. 1t would be
| strange to hear such notices as
the following given out from
the pulpit, and yet some things akin to them,
and not infrequently heard, and many church
members practice the things limited at, if not
| invited to do SO from the pulpit. How far
from some Sabbath pulpit notices are the fol-
lowing.
There will be prayer meeting next We'd
| nesdayeevening, at half past seven to last an
| hour, after which there will be social dance
in the church parlors.'
"The Whist Club will meet at Brother