St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-13
RELIGIOUS NOTES.


Sunday baseball is prohibited in Column
bus and Toledo, Ohio.
The Christian Union aud the N. Y. hide
pendent antagonize Blaine.
The growth of African missions in the last
five years is simply marvellous.
There are T. 1926 Friends in New England,
decrease of 33 in the last year.
Rev. DR.. Geo. Worthington declines the
Episcopal bshopric of Nebraska.
Five hundred preachers, of the Pan Pres
byterian council, visited Giants Causeway
Saturday.
James G. Blaine, Republican candidate for
the presidency, is presbyterian. His mother
was a Catholic
Bishop J. NJ Walden and wife celebrated
their silver wedding July Bird in their pleas
ant home in Coyingtou.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, the distin-
guished New England author has written an
opon letter telling why he viii vote for Blaine.
So nigh is grandeur to our dust;
So nigh is God to man,
When Duty whispers low, 'vThou must"
The soul replies, Il cam
John Logan, vice-prcsidential candidate,
is Methodist His wife was Baptist till
after her marriage. She then joined the
Methodist church.
The Hebrew college, Cincinnati, gradu-
ated FIVE young Rabbits last Sunday. 1t lis the
second time the title of Rabbi has been con-
ferred in the United States
If there's any one man living that the
world has less use for than the professional
politician or the constituencies editor, that
man is the essential preacher.-The Con-
vent.
The new Wilson avenue Presbyterian
church, Cleveland, o., costing $40, 900, is a
gift of D. P. Eells, Esq, brother Of Rev. DR..
Eells, of Lane seminary. Cincinnati, to the
congregation.
A patriotic Union prayer meeting, a
O'Clock every Fourth of July morning, is one
of the most popular institutions in Ludlow,
Ky., aud it is well attended by Young and
old. 1t is a beautiful and appropriate Gus
tom.
The action of the last VI. z. General Con-
ference, in putting its colored members in
the South into separate conferences, excites
unfavorably comment from outsiders. a good
many in that church don't ike it very well
either.
New England Congregationalists are or.
ganizing Con greg4tionaIist clubs. where the
members meet for an afternoon discuss prac-
teal, timely topics in an informal way, eat
lunch, have lots Of good fellowship, and dis
perse, eager to come back to the neat meet
ing.
Rev. WashingtoD GLADDEN., the eloquent
Congregationalist OF Columbus, o., win not
vote for Blaine, and writes letter to the
" YORK LvIsDsadss TO tell why not. Rev.
James Freemen Clarke, the Boston preacher
and writer has letter in the same paper to
the same purpose
Said grim. positive, DR.. Johnson: s.Sir, a
woman preaching is ike dog standing on
his hind legs; the thing is not well done but
the wonder Is that the thing Is done at all y
Times have greatly changed since then
Take the women teachers and preachers out
of the home and missiou-ields Of the church
es and the loss would be irreparzbIe.
Bismarck, writing TO his wife, SAYS: 81
cannot understand how anybody, who rejects
on his own self, aud yet knows nothing. nor
wants TO know anything Of God, can bear 70
live on in contempt and dulIness- do 10;
know how have borne II formerly. II al
present, should have 10 live as I did then,
without God, without y0u and the children,