Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-21


Stunned by sinners and evil spirits only.
SHAKESPEARE: Though it be honest, it is
never good to bring bad news. Give to a
gracious message an host of tongues, but
let i'll tidings tell themselves when they be
felt.
WILLIS: The night is made for ten
derness--so still that the the low whisper.
scarcely audible, is heard like music, and
SO deeply pure that the fond thought is
chastened as at springs and on the lips
made holy.
In the United States there are 26,931
Baptist churches, and only 1855 ordained
ministers Of that denomination.
The colored Baptists of North Carolina
are making arrangements for the found
ing of colored orphan asylum.
The stage has got as tired of ex-ParsOn
Min as the pulpit did, and he has dropped
out and down on the lecture platform.
Dean Stanley once remarked that Chris
tianity ia better expressed by the word
'Christendom" than by the word church,
An 1rishman, the sixth time since the
death of Wesley, has been eleotsd
president of the British Wesleyan oonts.-
ence.
The end of the world is expected Nov. s
| by the Moslems, that day making the
completion of the thirteenth century of
their religion.
Bishop Williams, of Connecticut, is
reported SIS saying that the Pilgrim
fathers first fell upon their knees and then
upon the aboriginees.
A band of the American League of the
Gross, the new Catholic temperance or
ganizetion, has been established in Chi
cago By Father Coppens.
The two Episcopal weekly journals pub
lished in New York city, the Churchman
| and the Guardian have been consolidated
under the name of the Churchman.
"Why don't you ask blessing, 'said the
boarding house keeper to the boarder. He
looked ell over the table, and gloomily an
swered: ''rd like to know what for"
A young Danish convert travelling
through India has become so much ina
pressed with the need of religious work,
that he has become missionary himself
The man who painted the -spirs of the
new Roman Catholic churchlin Omaha,
has been photographed standing on the
CROSS, two hundred and ten feet above the
pavement.
The Colored Foreign Missionary con-
vention Of the United States, at its recent
meeting at Manchester, Va, appointed
three missionaries to Africa, who will sail
next December.
The Methodist conference of central
| Ohio, southern Illinois, upper Iowa and
the northwestern Norwegians have voted
against the extension or removal of the
four years time limit.
The number of Philadelphia ministers
absent from their pulpits during the past
season was greater than ever before. The
summer complaint of pastors is alarm
ingly on the increase.
The two hundred and thirty-one missien
aries to China, representing all the mis-
| sionary boards and societies of this coun-
try and Great Britain, have sent a strong
petition to the British House of Commons
against the opium traffic.
Another denomination is about to enter
Japan, the Christian or Disciple church
having appointed two of its ministers to
60 there for mission work. Over twenty
religious societies are now represented in
the country by missionaries.
George Nugent, deacon of the Second
Baptist church, Germantown, Pa, who re-
Gently died, left princely gift to the
cause of benevolence. His will set apart
100000 for the founding of home for
disabled Baptist ministers.
| A little girl, evidently OF Republican
proclivities, like her father, asked her
father if Democrats ever went to heaven.
'Not if they can help it," he replied.
"Heaven would be very irksome place of
residence for q Democrat"
Very Rev. J. A. Corcoran, q professor
in the Seminary of st. Charles, Borromso,
near Philadelphia, and editor of the Amer
lean Quarterly Reuie,U, has been selected
theologian to the American episcopacy at
the approaching council in Rome.
: ELDER Stebbins," said Elder Higgins,
''you and have our differences, but after
the dominie's sermon this morning on the
duty of forgiveness feel that we ought to
ome to an understanding and live in
peace. Now, I can't give up SO you
must"
By the way, would it not be good plan
to pass round the hat for the benefit of the
scrawny impecunious English fellows who
propose to come here to lecture to fill their
pockets, and so let them stay at home? It
would save us from crowd of hungry
ill-mannered bores.
DR.. Charles s. Pomeroy, of Cleveland,
Ohio, has declined the call to the profess
sorship of Allegheny Presbyterian Theo-
LOGICAL seminary. made vacant by the