Daily globe., 1883-07-01

such unpretending, yet true and everlast--
ing service? Cheer up, men and women
of unappreciated services. You will get
your reward, if 10: here, hereafter.
The Wesleyans in Austria have 36,804
pupils in their Sunday scools. They lead
all other churches.
A convent will soon be erected in Wood
land, Cal, for the Sisters of Notre Dame,
who are to open an academy there.
A powerful revival of religion is in pro-
gress in Esthonia, on the shores of the
Baltic sea, the work of Moravian brethren.
The next general convention of the
Protestant Episcopal church in America
will be held in Philadelphia, October g.
Mrs. Comstock of Michigan, who has
visited 115,0O0 prisoners, finds 5000
were brought to the prison through strong
drink.
There are between fifty and sixty Euro
pean ladies working in the Zenanas in
India, under the auspices of the Church of
England Zenana mission.
Boxes of Bibles have been stopped ana
oonfscsted on the Bolivian frontier be-
cause the packages did not bear the proper
warrants from the Vatican.
Samson got his honey out of the very
lion that roared against him The Chris
tian often gets his blessing out of his
greatest seeming calamities.
Jesus travelled on foot. We read of but
one instance where he rode, except on the
waters of Galilee, and that was necessary
to the fulfllment of prophecy.
There are in the state 62, ,521 Norwegians,
1916 Swedes and 6,071 Danes. Minnesota
has the largest Norwegian population of
any state or territory in the Union.
Two prospectors, while sinking O.. a
new discovery, aboEt forty miles west of
Butte, M. T., broke through into sub
terranean chamber filed with skeletons.
Bishop Marty, of Dakota, will soon open
an ecclesiastical seminary at Yankton,
where students of various nationaIities. in
Gliding the Indian, will be trained for the
priesthood.
Jesus was a man Of sorrows. One in
stance alone is recorded when he ''re-
joiced in spirit and the cause of his Joy
was that the gospel is revealed to the hum
ble and lowly.
Six saloon keepers, of Atlanta, Ga. are
being sued for $4,000 each by Mrs. Mar
garet Johnson, who alleges that they have
made a confirmed drunkard of her
eighteen year-old son.
The Con9regGtiondliSt says: The
church of Christ is on every side yielding
to the pressure of a Christless world. It
is adopting the customs and habits of
thoroughly worldly society.
The Sundoy-School Union announces a
series of articles On the lessons for the re-
mainder of the year, by distinguished
writers. One is on Joshua as Military
Leader" by General Joshua L. Cham
berlain.
People are wont to admire a speaker
who uses high flowing words above their
comprehension. They think the stream
IS deep because they cannot see the bot
tom, and do not consider that it is owing
to Its muddiness.
Light pay and hard work is the rule in
the Methodist church. In the New England
conference there is only one minister who
receives as high salary as $4,000. Only
five receive more than $1,000. The average
salary is about $3.50.
The receipts into the treasury of the
Presbyterian board of home missions for
the year ending last March are more than
$4,000 larger than for the year ending
March 81, 1882, and nearly $13O,OO0 larger
than for the year 1881.
It is an evidence of the divine origin
Of Christianity that it proposes state of
society, not only in advance of the present
age, but of anything the world has ever
seen. Society in its present improved con-
dition is far behind it.
Chicago seems to gain in population
much more rapidly than in ''true goodness"
In 1840 the ratio of churches and missions
in population in that city was to 1877; in
1880, to 2,Os1, and from 1880 to 1882 no
relative gain was made.
Mrs. Amanda Smith, the celebrated col
ored evangelist, is evangelizing among the
colored people of Grand Bassa, Liberia.
She writes that she has given many Bible
readings, and that she finds among the
women of Liberia great disposition to
study the Bible.
The Buffalo Catholic Union says: "The
Baptist Weekly solemnly observes that IF
Pope Leo doesn't mind some New York
Irishmen will turn Protestants.' When
those some New York Irishmen' heard
that they laughed and said well be
damned if we do . +"
A London paper tells US that Mr.. Er-
rington has been installed as official rep
resentatiye of the British government at
the vatican. His appointment is regarded
in diplomatic circles as fully confirmed,