St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-14


An endowment of $50, 900 has been raised
for the chair of theology in Hope College,
Michigan.
The Rev. Charles E. Taylor has been
chosen president of Wake Forest College,
North Carolina.
The Rev. James Freeman Clarke emphati-
eally denies the report that he is to retire
from the ministry.
Rev. E. B. England has commenced his
labors as pastor elect of the Emmanuel Re-
formed Episcopal Church, Newark, MI.
The Gar of Russia still interferes with the
jurisdiction Of the Roman Catholic bishops
over their clergy in spite Of his recent cum
derstanding' with the pope.
A statue commemorative of the landing of
the Pilgrim Fathers will be unveiled in Cen
trail Park, on the occasion Of the anniversary
of that event. Dec. %. The memorial will
be erected by the New England Society.
The Bishop of Lichfeld, Dr. Maclagan, in
his speech at the recent seasonal opening of
the Kings College, London, CLASSES for WON
en-, spoke out clearly and distinctly as to the
right of every woman to avail herself of ev-
cry chance of obtaining the highest education
possible.
dispatch from Rome says: ''After a
friendly interchange Of views with Russia in
regard to the position of the Catholic clergy
in Poland, a note has been received from st.
Petersburg settling the pending questions,
and confirming the friendly relations be-
tween Russia and the Vatican"
Rev. j. L. Potter, at Teherau, Persia, has
translated the first part of "Pilgrim's Prog
ress" into the Persian, and lady in this
country has sent hims65O to print it, Thus the
most useful and interesting of all uninspired
books sets out on new career in a language
that never knew its beauty and its worth be-
fore.
The pope has issued decree, creating the
American College in Rome, until recently
part of the Propaganda property, a clerical
college with an organization of its own, to be
| ruled like the college of the Propaganda.
This relieves it Of any danger of con6scation
or control by the Italian government as part
of the Propaganda.
At the late meeting of the Presbytcry of
Rio de Janeiro ole hundred and ninety mem
bers were reported as received into the
churches during the past year and one church
organization formed at Campanha, in the
Province Of Minas Geraes. One native, Sc
nor j. Carvalho BRAGG, passed his examina-
ton, and was licensed to preach the Gospel.
! The Christian Union, says: SIT is difficult
for one who lives in the joy and sunshine of
Christian faith to read the story of the in
ner life of Thomas Carlyle without sinking
OF the heart and tears; and impossible to
read the praises of superficial eulogist, like
| Froude, or the sneers of some superficial
newspaper critics, without indignation
Bishop Isaac W. Wiley, Of the Methodist
| Episcopal Church, who died in Fuh Chau,
was making an Episcopal tour of the Asiatic
mission of his church, in which he felt
| great interest particularly in China, where
ha had served served as a missionary. He
was elected Bishop in 1872, at the age of AZ.
An English lady recently bequeathed some
So, 900 for the Free Church Presbyterian
China Mission. That church has no mission
of its own in China, and some difficulty has
been experienced in deciding how to dispose
of the bequest. 1t is expected that it will be
handed over to the English Presbyterian
Church mission; but it would have saved a
good deal of perplexity if the donor had found
out the facts herself before making her leg
acy.
Rev. Reuben Jeffery, D. D., writes from
Denver, November, Is: IT have resigned
my pastorate here, after -four years of hard
and successful work. After December 1,
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