Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-07
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.

AS an average IN Switzerland not more
than one in ten goes to church.
During Mr.. Moody's labors in Scotland
over 10000 people we're converted.
A mission church is to be erected in Zu-
luland on the fatal battlefield of 1sanahl-
wanna.
The Jubilee fund Of the Congregational
union of England and Wales now exceeds
$1,OO0,O0O.
Among the g,aduaie7 u Bcw7oin col
lege' are 25O who are now pastors OF
churches in Maine.
The Second Presbyterian church OF
Philadelphia, just completed, cost $780,
900, and is entirely paid for.
The English revisers of the Old Tesla
ment have completed the second revision
as far as the Book of Proverbs.
The working people throughout CONT
mental Europe are beginning to plead for
deliverance from Sunday work.
Sir Tatton Sykes, Esq, having rent
roll of $1SO,OO0 year, with all his family,
have Joined the Roman Catholic church.
In Ireland since the disestablishment
the Episcopal church prints in the prayer
book a notice that priest" means
''Presbyter."
A New York man has a lingering with
the ten commandments engraved on it in
such small characters that they can only
be read with the aid of a microscope.
A correspondent of an Episcopal paper
complains because, with broad fields open
in the West, many clergymen are slowing
themselves away, herring fashion," in
Eastern cities.
The new Trinity church in Philadelphia
which the Methodists are building will
have polychromatic window twenty feet
wide and forty feet high, admitting flood
of many-colored lights.
The First Presbyterian church building
of San Francisco, which has been given
to the Chinese mission, was recently dedi-
Gated for this purpose, part of the exer-
cises being in Chinese.
They had a secular funeral in Port Jer-
Wis, Orange county, N. Y, few days ago,
over the body OF one John Green. An ex-
tract from Shakespeare was read as the
chief part OF the ceremony.
FIotow, the author of Martha, has Tbe-
come blind from cataract, but he is still
at work on a new opera. Blindness did
not hinder Millions work in poetry, nor
deafness Beethoven's music.
Of the 1851, 1854 members of the North
ern Methodist church, 1,553,337 take no
interest in the benevolent collections; 1885,
800 never give anything, and 6O4,OO8 give
an average of 10 cents only.
New York clergymen give Evangelist
Barnes the cold shoulder. Barnes says he
does not care how severely they let him
alone. He thinks they are out of the right
way quite as much as they think he is.
The Christian Union says: ga spasm of
Sunday quiet, dependent on the ftful exc
cution of ancient laws, which have been a
dead letter for years, does not of itself in
dictate any great advance in piety or relig-
ion."
A preacher who was not well acquainted
with the evolutionary art placed the inhec-
ton on the wrong word, following the lit
eral italic in I. Kings, xiii. 81, and read:
''And he spake unto his sons, saying, sad
die me the ass, and they saddled him."
George III, speaking to Archbishop Suit
ton respecting his large family, made the
remark: 81 believe your grace has better
than a dozen?' mo, sire," replied the
archbishop, 'only eleven" WELL" replied
the king, isn't that better than dozen?'
The Baptist Home Missionary society
is fifty years old. 1t has paid $1,700,000
for actual missionary services; $1,000,000
for educational work among colored peo-
pie and Indians; and over 100000 has
been loaned to 331 churches for the cree
ton of edifces.
Henry Ward Beecher the other day ap-
peared before the senate committee ION
grain corners ETC., and in the course of
his testimony, speaking of public morals
and bribery, he said: "There was George
Washington, he could not be bribed, but he
swore like trooper"
The Old South church of Boston has
voted to continue the salary, $4,000 year,
of Rev. DR.. Manning to his family until
April 1, 1888, and after that to pay them
$4,000 a year for six years. The society
also voted to erect a monument to the
memory of DR.. Manning.
The Christian Advocate says that if the
ministers and members of the churches
would work as zealously and generally for
revival of religion as politicians and
partisans do for success, in one month
thousands of affairs in each of the states
would be thronged with inquirers.
In recent number of the War Cry an
organ of the Salvation army, is ditty to
the old tune of Il wish was with Nancy,
in the Strand" whose refrain is:
so don't 1 love my Jesus,
1 do, dos
and another to the tune of champagne
Charlie"
Sir Richard Temple, a resident of India
for twenty-seven years, and formerly gov
ernor of Bombay and ieutenant-gov-
ernor of Bengal, during a recent visit to
Boston, spoke freely and cordially of the
worth, merit, capacity and self-sacrifcing
devotion of the English and American mis-
sionaries there.