Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-08

! horse. Mr.. Henry Berg will at once send
this man q blanket for his horse and a
rattle for his baby.
| A Quaker hearing g person tell how
much he felt for another who was in dis
tress and needed assistance, asked him:
''Friend, hast thou felt in thy pocket for
him?"
'Now Johnny" said school teacher,
''what happened after the angel with the
fiery sword drove Adam and Eve out of the
garded OF Eden. ''They had to eat bread
/ to make them sweat"
1t is stated that some members of the
| Methodist conference in India, and dele
{ gates to the decennial conference at CAL
cutta, travelled as much as 2,098 miles to
attend their appointments.
| When Pere Hyacinthe preached to an
audience of 5000 persons at Marseilles on
a recent S1nday,a great uproar was caused
| by the Kissing of persons who were OPP
posed to the doctrines he advanced.
! The Methodist mission board has pur-
chased as a site for its university in Japan
about twenty-five acres of land in Toxic,
near the emperor's palace, and which was
used by the government as a model farm.
Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe is longing
for new church at her Florida home
"a church with bell in it, she says, "as
I want to hear the sound of the church GO
ing bell here as did in my New England
home"
The Congregational ministers, of Chica-
go, have unanimously decided not to SOL
| emnize marriage when either party has
procured divorce on other than Scriptur-
al grounds. A movement in the right di-
rection.
Rev. P. K. Hawkhurst, of the Central III.
E. church at Yonkers, N. Y, recently re-
ceived on probation lady four months
over century old. She has a clear in
tellect and good eyesight, but is dull of
hearing.
There is said to be tribe of Indians in
Washington territory who believe them
selves destined to be the only survivors of
a food which is yet to come, and they ere
collecting material with which to build
their ark.
A small boy in South Carolina raises
canary birds and gives the proceeds of their
sale to the board of foreign missions. In
three years this enterprising benevolent
young person has thus gathered and given
about $780,
The Free church of Scotland is still ex-
ercised over the organ question, and it is
said that the next general assembly will
receive d protest against the use of instru-
mental music in the churches, signed by at
least 100000 persons.
temperance sermon comes from a
pawnbrOker's shop in Pittsburg. The
pawnbroker has found that 80 per
cent. of the money he lends is spent
for strong drink. Other pawnbrokers
could preach the same sermon.
The seven Catholic dioceses of Russian
Poland numbered last year 5,29O,277 Cath
olics, 2,415 secular priests and 400 regular
priests, with 400 novices, 224 nuns OF
various orders and 254 Sisters of Mercy,
1874 churches and 594 chapels.
church IN Bavaria, accommodating
LOO people, has been almost entirely
built OF papier mache, which can be sup
piled at cost little above that of plaster
1t can be made to initiate the finest marble,
| as it takes a polish superior to slate.
The Presbyterian Journal suggests the
following as the ideal church Sabbath:
"Morning, church service; afternoon, Sab
| bath school, aud the whole church in It as
classes, studying the Bible; evening,
families at home in family communion,
reading and worship"
The Holiness band, a fanatical religious
Organization, are raising a general excite
| ment at Corsicana, Tex, and it Is expected
! they will prove themselves as obnoxious as
they did two years ago, when the leader
was ridden on a rail and the band dis
persed as q nuisance.
The EgljSe Ljbre, French Protestant
journal, referred in recent issue to the
statement that NJ. Gambetta had burnt
tapers on the anniversary of his mothers
death, and pointed out that no such ami
versary has yet occurred, since Nine. Gam
BETA died on the 22d of July last.
The new archbishop of Canterbury is re-
ported to have said recently to General
Booth, the leader of the Salvation army:
$50 on; do all the good you can; get at
the people. We rejoice, only we would
like it to be done somehow or other in
harmony and in unison with the Church Of
England"
''What's them things, maj" asked little
girl st the table the other day. 'Why
those are Turkish prunes, my dear"
where did they come from?" Her small
brother looked up with an expression of,
disdain on his face as he excIaimed: ''They
come out of turkeys, sis. Guess you don't
know much about vegetables"
eyes brethren" said preacher from his
pulpit, ''you are the passengers on a train
speeding its straight and narrow way to
glory, and am the conductor of the train,
thank the Lord" "You run her first-class.
should say" remarked stranger, look
ing over the congregation, ''from the num-
Der of sleepers you're hauling"
The state of Texas is to buy for $780,
600 the old Alma church at San Antonio in
which during the Texas war for indepen-