Daily globe., 1882-09-16
GLOBELETS.

The question of reading the Bible in tn
public schools of Vermont is being agita
ted, meeting with opposition and support
1t is shown by statistics just issued tina
asst year there were 17,251 known thieve
at large in England. of whom 1,260 wer
In the city of London.
The Boston Christian Statesman goes s.
far as to say that Henry Ward Beeche
and his church are outside of the recog
aized pale of Christianity.
The renowned Sunday school man, th
Rev. DR.. Vincent. speaks of 1.-The sanctifica
tion of fun as connected with Chatauqui
and other summer pleasure resrots.
A movement has lately been inauguratet
III the Episcopal church in Massachusett
to do away with the pew system and in
troduce the free sy stem in its stead.
There are 2S7 Congregational churches
in Connecticut, of which 132 have settle,
pastors, 100 are presided over by acting
pastors, and fifty five have no settled sup
ply.
Russian actress, Teyghite, attempted
suicide. September 10Th, by shooting her
self in the appointments of the Due d,
Morny. in Paris. Her condition was pro
carious.
Blanche Douglas, who figured in the tri
with the murder of pretty Jennie Cra-
mer," has house of prostitution in New
York city, gaudily and iashily furnished
Ex-Gov. Samuel J. Tilden is reported te
be seriously i'll with softening of tn.
brain. The report is contradicted. Mr.
Tl.den seems to be the object of constantly
contradictory statements politically anl
personally.
The Christian Leader, published in Bos
ton, Massachusetts, does not accept Her
bert Spencer's philosophy, but confesse;
that more than any living thinker, he is 3
factor III modern thought and hence il
modern ciyilization.''
At Syracuse, n. Y, four-year-old girl
was sent by her drunken grandmother to q
GROCERY for whisky. The child dranE
freely of the whisky, become dead drunk
and died in her drunken stupor, medical
appliances being of no avail to save her.
Bishop Huntington, in the Boston Con
gTegdti0RdIist denounces the mine capi-
talsts who expose the lives of their work
people 10 malaria by letting down int
their nelShborhoOds the stagnant watel
which carries death into the atmospher,
where they live,
An ocean telephone company has been
formed, to establish telephone communi
cation between Europe and America. Re
nowned electricians and capitalists on botf
sides Of the Atlantic have the matter undel
nd ha1 70 l,o
tirely practicable.
Secularism, according to G. J. Holy yoake
Is that which teaches elf-help by the uss
of science and morality, founded not upon
creeds but experience, which shows that
honesty, truth and kindness are best foc
this wOr !. and not bad things for another
If 1t comes to that.
Just as DIR. Edward JudsOn had fairly
settled himself in his great mission field
in New York city, came the tempting re-
quest to become the chief Baptist minis
ter in Newark, n. j., and he has shown
himself sufficiently in earnest to say mo
to the usual emoluments.
A traveller saw in Portland, Me-, while
waiting half an hour at railroad station
barrel of ale rolled into saloon, ar
intoxicated man fight hack driver anC
two men drink whiskey from bottle. HI
concludes it possible that the Maine
liquor law is sometimes broken in Port
land.
the n. Y. Christian Union gives pith anG
point TO its proposition to solve the Nor
mon problem, thus IF the Mormons dc
not like our government let them leave ou
land. Their political right to organize
and sanctify public prostitution we will
not now dispute; but they have no right t.
do 1t on our territory or under our flag"
The bell of Massachusetts, woolsn mil
was rung at o'clock every morning OK
'cspt Sundays. II weighed 1000 pounds
and WAS intended to awaken every employ
which it did rs we'll as every ono else il
town. 1t was complained of as a nuisanc
and q supreme court judge enioined tn
owners not to ring it before 6 80 a. m. Thi
decree has been affirmed on appeal to Ia
full bench.
DR.. Leifchild, of London, said to the
illogical student: II will give you N,
rules for preaching; they are very short
and l have put them into rhyme:
Begin low,
GO on slow;
Rise higher,
And take fire;
When most impressed
Be self-possessed;
At the end wax warm,
And sit down in a Storm"
A writer in the New York Christian
Union believes our theological seminarie
need revolutionizing. He says: 1--WE wan
in our theological seminaries not more bu
less precision of expression, because no
less but more of profound thought. VIZ
want vaster, loftier, more spiritual exhibi
tions OF the truths of religion, which, l;kt
the love of God, pass knowledge. FED b,
unbounded exposition, the young student
mind viii widen, his soul be awed and pu
rifed''
Ar alarming epidemic of dysentry pre-
walls in some parts of Sweden. IL Nal
moe recently there was about one thou
sand sick, and the mortality was inc-eas
inp The schools are closed in cOnsa