Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-21
TIMELY TOPICS.

TIMELY TOPICS.
HTExAs has 100 Presbyterian churches, of
which seventy-five are without pastors.
THE Boston Young Mems Christian asso-
citation has raised $70,0 900 for the extension Of
their building.
On Sabbath last Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage
had a field day in his Tabernacle IN Brooklyn.
He gave the right hand Of fellowship to 164
new members and baptised sixty-four candi-
nacle is 2,751.
"BETrY AND THE BABY," Sergeant Mason's
wife and child, received from the ten-cent con-
tributions in Philadelphia $S,542. Mrs. Mason
has the promise from the president that some
thing shall be done to mitigate the shamefully
severe sentence passed upon her husband. It
Is thought, however, nothing will be done
In this regard till after Guiteau is hung.
TIE NJ. E. church of the United States,
torn asunder by the agitation OF the slavery
| question, formally separated in 1916, has be-
come the M. E. church South, and the M. E.
church North. A reunion of those bodies
has been confidently expected of late, but this
expectation is destined, at least, to present
disappointment. 1t was thought that at the
late conference of the N. E: church South at
Nashville measures would be adopted that
would insure reunion, but no such measures
! were adopted and the two bodies remain
asunder, having fraternity" but not
"union."
THIS is the pleasant way in which one Of
the newly appointed Methods ministers dis
armed the criticism of the people in the con-
gregation to which he had been sent. In
stead of getting angry about it, or complain
~ hear that you say I am not much of
preacher; well, know it; and know that If
could preach first rate wouldn't have been
sent here to preach to such lot of igno-
ramusses as YOU" The church folks were
struck with new sense of the fitness of
| things, as regulated by the admirable ma
chinery of Methodism, for adapting means
to ends.
Pope Leo XIII resolutely remains in the
vatican, though his health is being seriously
affected by his confinement. His physicians
urgently recommend change of scene and
air, as o necessity for the prolongation of his
life, and the restoration of health. A late tee-
gram to an English paper said: "The pontiff,
Off 1ohr lodi i1ic r;y,cp he
Eucharist to several persons yesterday, in the
throne-room, was, on retiring to his own
apartment, seized with a fit, which deprived
him of his senses for short time. The ply
stefan of his holiness, who was present, de-
clared that it was only passing affection, and
not of great moment" 1t is alleged that he
has the freedom of any place in Italy, and that
the government would be only too glad to
secure to him the healthiest part in its do
mains. But hitherto he declines
SOMETIMES things get mixed, and nicely,
too, if not quite SO neatly as was done by the
printer of Canadian newspaper who tagged
part of a recipe for tomato catsup on the
opening paragraph of an article on "Catholi-
cism in Africa with the following result:
1.-THE Roman Catholics claim to be making
material advances in Africa, especially in Al
geria, where they have 1S5, 900 adherents, and
missionary society for Central Africa. Dur
ing the past three years they have obtained
firm foot in the interior of the continent, and
have sent forth several missionaries into the
equatorial regions. They are accustomed to
begin their work by buying heather children
and educating them. The easiest and best
way to prepare them is to first wipe them
with clean towel; then place them in drip
ping. pans and bake them until they are ten
der. Then you will have no difficulty in
rubbing them through sieve, and will save
them by being obliged to cut them in slices
and cook for several hours"
A VERY carnival of crime seems to bear
sway throughout the world. The daily tele-
grams are overloaded with every form and va
rlety of crime, petty, atrocious and disgusting.
An alarming element Of wickedness seems to
be everywhere distributed, in towns, hamlets,
villages and cities. No portion of the COM
munity escapes the visitation. From domestic
broils, social vice, to planned train robberles
anu mOU NlOlCuCCs community 10 udlly
called upon to inspect bill Of fare of most
startling horrors. Lawlessness seems to be
coming IN like flood, and is getting to be
the rule rather than the exception in civil
communities. Crime is rampant and
defiant Morality and religion seem to
stand aghast in helpless weakness.
The forms of social religious exercises are
preserved; pulpit platitudes are doled out
from Sabbath to Sabbath like water spilled
upon the ground, without effect and without
power. The church is the great moral lever
with which to uphold the virtue OF the world.
And yet fearful defects have crept into the
sacred purlieus of the church, the pulpit, it.
self too often lapses from virtue; Sabbath
school superintendent and other church
officials are too often blistered with hypocrisy
and are developed to the world as rascals,
serving the devil in the garb of religion, as
cloak for their sins. A sterner morality, a
more relentless discipline, is needed to purify
the church, to make it ''first pure, then
peaceable," the true exemplar of the di-
vine precepts of the Son of Man.
The criminal and police courts
are daily crowded with felons, and feculent
scum of immortality and criminality is con-